CoolerChip Kinetic (Sandia) Cooler & Cooler Master 3D Vapor Chambers - CES 2015
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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as well as hyperx kicking things off in The Cooler Master Suite we've got well
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cooling technology how very unexpected this is something that they're calling
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3D Vapor Chambers now it's not the first time that we've seen Cooler Master throw
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Vapor Chambers onto a CPU Cooler Vapor Chambers actually you can learn more
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about them here we've done an entire episode of our fastest possible segment
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on them but basically they are usually flat now 3D Vapor Chambers are not flat
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in fact they are three-dimensional what they've done is they've tacked on what
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appear to be normal heat pipes but instead of just having heat pipes
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soldered to the top of a vapor chamber that then makes contact with the CPU for
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optimal heat spreading here they have actually integrated the heat pipe
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structure into the vapor chamber so unfortunately we don't have any live
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demos running yet but we do have a very early prototype of one that has both the
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traditional heat pipes on top of a vapor chamber design as well as 3D Vapor
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Chambers running up through the heat sink fins and we can be expecting to see
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a little bit more about this technology around the computex time frame but the
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really revolutionary technology and that it spins see haha it's a joke it's a
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joke about cooling is right here and this is from a partner of cooler Masters
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called cool chip these guys are showing
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off a completely different way of
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cooling CPUs now at first glance this might not really look like anything
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special okay it's got a flat surface on the bottom that's what you stick on top
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of the CPU GPU or your forehead or whatever else it is that you need to
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keep cool and then it's got some fins on the top that are you know well spaced
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for dissipating heat uh and then normally you would throw a fan that's
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usually about the same thickness as the heat sink itself to go ahead and blow
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air down on that bad boy and remove it from the metal but no this works
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completely differently what it actually does is it spins the top there we go
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let's just take this thing apart it spins the top of two plates around and
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that is what generates the air flow that cools metal so we don't actually need a
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fan anymore at all and you're kind of probably looking at me going well hold
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on a second Linus how the heck does that work I mean if these two plates aren't
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connected to each other then how are you even going to transfer the heat to it
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that sounds completely inefficient well actually hold on a second no because
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with precise enough manufacturing they can actually make these interlocking
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grooves between these plates be so close
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to each other that even as they're spinning around heat transfer is
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basically unimpeded now this isn't the first time that I've heard of this
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technology although I I have to admit you know with my skepticism hat on I
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wasn't convinced necessarily that it was ever going to make it to a costeff
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effective sort of retail type product because the Sandia cooler YouTube video
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that has over half a million views has been out there for a couple years now
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but this is the first time I've seen it actually working and they do do have it
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actually working so that one doesn't work that one you can take apart just
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for uh for demos but normally they would actually be fixed in place so that even
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dropping the unit wouldn't cause it to not continue to function correctly so
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here they've got a prototype this is attached to a piece of Plexi I was not aware of that before I started where
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they've got uh where they've got their uh their kinetic cooler in the middle
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and then they've got a more traditional heatsync fin array with heat pipes
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around the outside so they can actually increase the performance of this design
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by leveraging the air flow that they already have from the kinetic cooler to
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remove a little bit more heat this is the kind of thing you might see in an aftermarket more well compact Enthusiast
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type grade product then over here they've got a live demo where they've
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got two he identical heat elements and they've got a cooler design they've been
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working on for quite some time for oneu server or rack mount designs and then
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they've got a more traditional heat sink and fan blower design that also has to
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fit within that very very low profile sort of uh form Factor so check this out
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this one is running dissipating all the heat it
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needs to dissipate so I they won't quote me on this but based on that they're
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saying this is probably in the sort of 90 to 100 watt range I would have to
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guess that this is designed for kind of 65 watt CPUs then they've got another
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one right here on the left that requires a fan in order to achieve the same
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temperature and I think we've made our point now one new cool coolers aren't
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always the quietest things in the world but as far as showcasing the potential
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