Something new- liquid metal cooler for GPU

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:17 pm

Sapphire has officially announced (PDF) their new Blizzard graphics card line, featuring the worlds first Liquid Metal Cooling unit.

The cooler is manufactured by nanoCoolers, a relatively new company that specializes in advanced liquid-metal cooling loops and thin-film thermoelectric cooling solutions.

The liquid metal is 65 times more thermally conductive than water and the "pump" has no moving parts. All that's required is a small electromagnet to push the fluid around the loop. It's highly efficient as well; Sapphire claims it will cool up to 10 degrees cooler than Arctic Cooling's extremely popular Silencer series.

Sapphire has signed a 6 month exclusive license with nanoCoolers, so should you want a videocard with one of these bad boys the only place to get it is from Sapphire.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/pressrelease/blizzard.pdf

http://www.nanocoolers.com/

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:49 pm

yea its a good ideal.. but then that coil makes heat and requires a decent amount of power to work. and on top of that you will have it pulsing so it can pump. It probbly will be sheilded but still. you wont know if it breaks cause it will probbly be silent.

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:18 am

Originally posted by Pugsley
yea its a good ideal.. but then that coil makes heat and requires a decent amount of power to work. and on top of that you will have it pulsing so it can pump. It probbly will be sheilded but still. you wont know if it breaks cause it will probbly be silent.

Sure you'll know if it breaks. You'll see a puff of smoke come out your computer case.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:38 am

Although interesting, I have to ask.......does anyone here have temperature issues that might require such cooling devices? I've never needed to water cool anything PC related myself.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:22 pm

Originally posted by EvilHorace
Although interesting, I have to ask.......does anyone here have temperature issues that might require such cooling devices? I've never needed to water cool anything PC related myself.

Are you overclocking? Last time I overclocked anything was my old Abit BH6 with a Celeron 300A @450. I don't overclock anymore, as I really don't see the need to gain a 5% improvement in speed with today's processors.

123cool · Post by **123cool** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:06 pm

this will probably be for the extremists, those who like to push the equipment as far as it will go, but then again most of them already use liquid Nitrogen.

jayscybertrhs · Post by **jayscybertrhs** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:11 am

it says Liquid Metal! its not water anyway - its probly mercury - and will outgass for thirty years until it runs out of metal - and then no cooling - unless it breaks and vomits mercury all over the inside of the box - not a good deal.

but as to cooling needs, my ATI reads 93FPS at 800x600 and 16,000 colors - all very well and good 'till my MONITOR made that nice burning plastic smell...