Friday, January 13th 2012
Cooler Master Displays Vapor Chamber-based CPU Fan-Heatsink
There's little innovation with tower-type CPU coolers these days, barring the odd fancy aluminum fin design or heat-pipe layout. Cooler Master put its engineering muscle to use by developing a new tower-type CPU cooler that takes advantage of vapor-chamber technology. Called the TPC 812, the cooler is just large another aluminum fin tower-type heatsink with six heat pipes feeding head through the fin-stack, till the part where a specially-designed vapor-chamber element finds place.
The cooler uses a copper indirect contact base, at which the six heat pipes converge at the lowest level. Above it, is a vapor-chamber plate. From this place, two thin, broad columns arise, passing through the central portion of the aluminum fin stack. The heatsink is ventilated by a 120 mm fan. With its design innovation, the TPC 812 can handle thermal loads of up to 240W. The TPC 812 from Cooler Master will be priced around the $100 mark, and will be competitive with entry-level closed-loop liquid coolers.
Source:
VR-Zone
The cooler uses a copper indirect contact base, at which the six heat pipes converge at the lowest level. Above it, is a vapor-chamber plate. From this place, two thin, broad columns arise, passing through the central portion of the aluminum fin stack. The heatsink is ventilated by a 120 mm fan. With its design innovation, the TPC 812 can handle thermal loads of up to 240W. The TPC 812 from Cooler Master will be priced around the $100 mark, and will be competitive with entry-level closed-loop liquid coolers.
24 Comments on Cooler Master Displays Vapor Chamber-based CPU Fan-Heatsink
1 they fit in smaller systems and (never have any clearance issues with ram or videocards)
2 are easy and light on the motherboard.
3 you can decide where to locate the radiator (i.e. intake for maximum cooling, or exhaust to lower component temps).
4 - for me they can minimize the number of fans in your system - i.e. exhaust is also rad fan
5 - they make builds alot cleaner and easier IMO.
All those PRO's will not be overcome by "competitive" thermal performance from a tower cooler that costs just as much. It better kill closed loop systems on the thermals or its not worth it.
With that arrangement, you could have literally, a hundred or more pipes feeding the fins. It would also probably be some multiple of the normal surface area.
Then, just for kicks, I'd have an ionizer electrode going into the column. It would work just like an air ionizer but with the water vapor. Then you put a positive charge on an insulated plate at the top in order to increase the transfer rate. So you'd have the vapor pressure pushing out and the electromagnetic field sucking the vapor up.
I have no idea if it would work with vapor, but it works pretty damn well in air cleaners that have this feature. Hell, if you wanted to get fancy, you could use electromagnets and time them to alternate so that maybe (I have no idea) it would create a slight vortex.
Alright. My work here is done. Where's my royalty check? Hmmm?
Each vapor chamber is 120W worth of cooling.....
Along with the pipes and the fins, this cooler will sell as a 300W+ rating;)
vapor chambers. you cant explain that!
ans. aliens :D
Lol who believed this was a $100 cooler. VR-Zone should get its facts straight, before posting.