CES 2006: Motherboards, Memory, Cooling, and a Few Surprises
by Wesley Fink & Jarred Walton on January 11, 2006 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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VapoChill has made quite a name for Danish manufacturer Asetek. VapoChill is still king of phase-change cooling and Asetek was showing several of their beautiful phase-change cases that sell for $800 and up. The Vapochill display featured an Intel dual core processor running at 5150Mhz with the aid of phase-change cooling.
Asetek was showing a full line of CPU cooling products. These ranged from the $40 to $50 air-cooling MicroChill with Freon filled heatpipes and a radiator producing a phase-change like effect . . .
. . . to the newest Waterchill water-cooling kit designed for great overclocking in a silent computer.
Asetek also introduced a new external water-cooling system at CES 2006. As with the Nautilus at Corsair, the external system is designed for a quick install and silent cooling.
VapoChill has made quite a name for Danish manufacturer Asetek. VapoChill is still king of phase-change cooling and Asetek was showing several of their beautiful phase-change cases that sell for $800 and up. The Vapochill display featured an Intel dual core processor running at 5150Mhz with the aid of phase-change cooling.
Asetek was showing a full line of CPU cooling products. These ranged from the $40 to $50 air-cooling MicroChill with Freon filled heatpipes and a radiator producing a phase-change like effect . . .
. . . to the newest Waterchill water-cooling kit designed for great overclocking in a silent computer.
Asetek also introduced a new external water-cooling system at CES 2006. As with the Nautilus at Corsair, the external system is designed for a quick install and silent cooling.
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Powermoloch - Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - link
Very nice guys, great job on the report and such. Especially showing what OCZ is up to with their phase change coolant thing (first time I seen it). Pretty neat to be honest.Son of a N00b - Saturday, January 14, 2006 - link
man that OCZ phase change unit was looking sexy as hell, especially with that oh so tempting price...If only they were able to incorporate northbridge and GPU cooling into it also (even if it was more expensive) to truly earn the name of the revolution...Also it is aimed for the enthusiast market, so space as someone ws complaining about does not matter...
JarredWalton - Saturday, January 14, 2006 - link
They talked about the possibility of a dual GPU cooler block. Part of the problem with that is phase-change requires a lot more complexity than something like water cooling. You're not just cycling liquid through a tube; you have to worry about evaporator/condenser stuff as well. NB and RAM are down on the list in terms of importance, especially with chips like the FX series that have unlocked multipliers.R3MF - Thursday, January 12, 2006 - link
What was the Shuttle s754 'update'?was it a G5 Chassis with a 6100/430 chipset, silent power-brick PSU and support for AMD Turion/A64 processors?
that would be interesting.
JarredWalton - Thursday, January 12, 2006 - link
Actually, I think it was a G2 chassis. I believe http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SK21G.a...">this is the unit we saw. K8M800CE chipset doesn't seem like anything really impressive, and there isn't a DVI port. The newer stuff at Shuttle was another Viiv unit, with Core Duo support (as opposed to Pentium D). I don't think I saw anything really new on the AMD side.MrSmurf - Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - link
I was intrigued by the phase change cooling unit as well but it's too big. I like my system to be powerful but tidy and neat at the same time.