Crazy Der8auer cooler prototype - NO pump!
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,172 words · ~5 min read
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Massive shout out to Corsair for sponsoring us here at Computex 2018.
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Check out their two ADX Crystal Series cases at the link below. Well, he's done
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it again. The overclocking modding. I
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don't know. Uh it's hard to come up with a word for this guy that doesn't sound a
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little disrespectful cuz he's just kind of like out there. but in the best
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possible way. Dare Bower has created
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something that many have tried but no
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one has succeeded at. This, my friends,
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is a very early stages prototype of a
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completely pumpless all-in-one liquid
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cooling system. Now, the first time I ever saw this attempted was in a post on
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Extreme Systems by old OCZ Tony where he
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was like back that was back when they released a CPU block that I don't know
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if literally anyone ever bought. Anyway, they had kind of gotten it working such
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that like the evaporation of the boiling fluid in the block got the the liquid to
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cycle through the thing. And he was like, "Yeah, this will probably never be a commercial product." And up until now,
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he was right. So, check this out. Let's let's come in here and have a closer
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look. Now, this is obviously very early
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prototype stages and there's going to be a lot of changes made. Wow, it's
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actually a little bit little bit toasty because there is a lot of heat under
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this. This is actually an overclocked Intel 7900X. So, even though there's
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only two sticks in here, no, this is not some like weak sauce KB Lake X. This is
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probably about 140 watts, you figure somewhere in that neighborhood. So, the
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only reason that the other two dim slots aren't occupied here is because there's
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this like pressure sensor thing sticking out of one side of it that will not make
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it into the final product. Although, other than some kind of concept stage
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renders of what the product might look like, we don't know too much about it.
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One thing that we know is that the tubing probably won't end up looking
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like this. It'll be either one or two
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tubes, hopefully two, because that'll improve the flexibility of the radiator
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placement a little bit, but there are some special requirements that
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unfortunately I'm not allowed to discuss with you guys because he is being
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completely zip- lipped about what kind
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of coolant he's using in here. The reality of it is is you can't keep
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something like that that secret because there's like material safety data sheets
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and import and export laws and all that kind of stuff. So he has to keep as few
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people as possible in the know. Like he didn't invent a liquid here. So as few
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people as possible need to know so they can't replicate it. Basically, what we
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do know is that the tubing won't be able to have too deep of an S-curve in it
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because then the condensing liquid that's dripping back down towards the
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CPU will get stuck. We also know that the radiator will have to be above the
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CPU because that's the way that the coolant cycles. It's kind of like a heat
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pipe. So you can see here the CPU is actually visible under there and then
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we've got some kind of an element like a like a conductive piece of metal that
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it's connected to here and that is boiling whatever liquid this is. The gas
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rises all the way up to a very very again prototype stages looking heat
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exchanger here where ah there we go. So, there's a better look at it where we've
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got these uh kind of it looks like it's CNCed out like kind of a CNCed uh bottom
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piece here where it turns back into a liquid and then drips back down towards
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the CPU at the top. And this will also
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need some significant changes for the final product. We've got a couple of
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what looks like server uh oneu are these
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just oneu server heat sinks? Wow. Dinatron.
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Very nice. couple of Dinatron copper server heat sinks with 92 millimeter
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fans on them. But what we're going to end up with in all likelihood is more of
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a conventional radiator form factor and with something like um the same kind of
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fan that you'd have on a rear exhaust blower style GPU kind of scattering the
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air out around it. In terms of mounting
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hardware, we don't have too many details yet. So, I'd love to hear from you guys
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in the comments. Actually, a couple of things. First of all, I'd love to see if
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any of you can guess what coolant that is because Roman is pretty confident
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over here that no one is going to figure it out. And I'd love to hear from you
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guys. What kind of mounting hardware would you like to see included? This is
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very likely to be a limited edition product. I'd be surprised if they make
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more than like a couple hundred of them personally, but it would be a very cool
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piece of custom PC modding history to own because this is another cool thing.
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We've seen concepts of this before and even though there's no pump, they end up
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kind of loud cuz you can hear the coolant boiling. This one completely
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silent because of the thickness of the enclosure here.
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By the way, if you're looking for a case to throw it in, you might want to check out Corsair's 280X series. They've got a
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couple of actually they've got four different versions. It's in black or
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white and with or without RGB. It's an
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MATX case design with multiple cooling zones and it's kind of an updated look
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of one of their older cases with, yes, my friends, you guessed it, more RGB.
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The RGB version includes two of their light loop RGB fans as well as their
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digital node controller, which is compatible with their new IQ software.
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You can learn more about the 280X Crystal series at the link in the video
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