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as well as hyperx kicking things off in The Cooler Master Suite we've got well
cooling technology how very unexpected this is something that they're calling
3D Vapor Chambers now it's not the first time that we've seen Cooler Master throw
Vapor Chambers onto a CPU Cooler Vapor Chambers actually you can learn more
about them here we've done an entire episode of our fastest possible segment
on them but basically they are usually flat now 3D Vapor Chambers are not flat
in fact they are three-dimensional what they've done is they've tacked on what
appear to be normal heat pipes but instead of just having heat pipes
soldered to the top of a vapor chamber that then makes contact with the CPU for
optimal heat spreading here they have actually integrated the heat pipe
structure into the vapor chamber so unfortunately we don't have any live
demos running yet but we do have a very early prototype of one that has both the
traditional heat pipes on top of a vapor chamber design as well as 3D Vapor
Chambers running up through the heat sink fins and we can be expecting to see
a little bit more about this technology around the computex time frame but the
really revolutionary technology and that it spins see haha it's a joke it's a
joke about cooling is right here and this is from a partner of cooler Masters
called cool chip these guys are showing
off a completely different way of
cooling CPUs now at first glance this might not really look like anything
special okay it's got a flat surface on the bottom that's what you stick on top
of the CPU GPU or your forehead or whatever else it is that you need to
keep cool and then it's got some fins on the top that are you know well spaced
for dissipating heat uh and then normally you would throw a fan that's
usually about the same thickness as the heat sink itself to go ahead and blow
air down on that bad boy and remove it from the metal but no this works
completely differently what it actually does is it spins the top there we go
let's just take this thing apart it spins the top of two plates around and
that is what generates the air flow that cools metal so we don't actually need a
fan anymore at all and you're kind of probably looking at me going well hold
on a second Linus how the heck does that work I mean if these two plates aren't
connected to each other then how are you even going to transfer the heat to it
that sounds completely inefficient well actually hold on a second no because
with precise enough manufacturing they can actually make these interlocking
grooves between these plates be so close
to each other that even as they're spinning around heat transfer is
basically unimpeded now this isn't the first time that I've heard of this
technology although I I have to admit you know with my skepticism hat on I
wasn't convinced necessarily that it was ever going to make it to a costeff
effective sort of retail type product because the Sandia cooler YouTube video
that has over half a million views has been out there for a couple years now
but this is the first time I've seen it actually working and they do do have it
actually working so that one doesn't work that one you can take apart just
for uh for demos but normally they would actually be fixed in place so that even
dropping the unit wouldn't cause it to not continue to function correctly so
here they've got a prototype this is attached to a piece of Plexi I was not aware of that before I started where
they've got uh where they've got their uh their kinetic cooler in the middle
and then they've got a more traditional heatsync fin array with heat pipes
around the outside so they can actually increase the performance of this design
by leveraging the air flow that they already have from the kinetic cooler to
remove a little bit more heat this is the kind of thing you might see in an aftermarket more well compact Enthusiast
type grade product then over here they've got a live demo where they've
got two he identical heat elements and they've got a cooler design they've been
working on for quite some time for oneu server or rack mount designs and then
they've got a more traditional heat sink and fan blower design that also has to
fit within that very very low profile sort of uh form Factor so check this out
this one is running dissipating all the heat it
needs to dissipate so I they won't quote me on this but based on that they're
saying this is probably in the sort of 90 to 100 watt range I would have to
guess that this is designed for kind of 65 watt CPUs then they've got another
one right here on the left that requires a fan in order to achieve the same
temperature and I think we've made our point now one new cool coolers aren't
always the quietest things in the world but as far as showcasing the potential
of the technology I think this does a pretty good job speaking of showcasing
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