Friday, June 7th 2013
Apistek Shows Off Innovative Liquid Cooling Solutions
We never heard of Apistek before today, but looking some of the stuff they brought to Computex, we won't be surprised if the brand gets popular among enthusiasts all over, particularly those into liquid cooling. Founded in 2011, this Chinese company made its Computex debut this year, where it's scouting for distributors to global markets. The company showed off a unique new full-coverage water block for Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics cards based on a widely implemented design by TUL. The design involves two independent copper+acetal GPU blocks with coolant tubing running serial, and a heatspreader dropping heat from the card's obverse memory chips, and VRM.
Apistek also showed off two innovative cylindrical tower-type radiators for liquid cooling setups. Design of the two is inspired by Zalman Reserator, a device which had a brief stint at the markets around 2005, that combined the functionality of a pump, reservoir, and radiator into a single cylindrical device that doesn't need fans. Its design involves a pump at the base, a dense helical metal coolant channel that lines the inner wall of a ridged metal cylinder, where heat is dissipated, and a reservoir at the top. Apistek showed off a 370 mm-tall desktop variants that can optionally hold on to four 120 mm fans for better cooling, and a taller 592 mm pedestal version that doesn't need any fans. Both towers have independent AC power input and coolant pressure adjustment on device.
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Apistek also showed off two innovative cylindrical tower-type radiators for liquid cooling setups. Design of the two is inspired by Zalman Reserator, a device which had a brief stint at the markets around 2005, that combined the functionality of a pump, reservoir, and radiator into a single cylindrical device that doesn't need fans. Its design involves a pump at the base, a dense helical metal coolant channel that lines the inner wall of a ridged metal cylinder, where heat is dissipated, and a reservoir at the top. Apistek showed off a 370 mm-tall desktop variants that can optionally hold on to four 120 mm fans for better cooling, and a taller 592 mm pedestal version that doesn't need any fans. Both towers have independent AC power input and coolant pressure adjustment on device.
24 Comments on Apistek Shows Off Innovative Liquid Cooling Solutions
I don't know that these "innovative" designs from Apistek are really worth the effort?
and i totally agree with it.
"Innovation" isn't quite the word I'd use.
"ah don't worry about it, it's from the future"
I would like to try it out actually.
also isnt this like the zalman reserver with some ghettomodded fans to it? how can this be innovative when it has already been done!
I have to disagree with you on the watercooling front. I've been running water cooled machines for 22 years now. It is not for the beginner but if you know what you're doing leaks are about as common as winning the lottery. A big heavy heatsink is far more likely to cause very strange issues as the motherboard bends. ASUS has recently launched motherboards with a backplate to help with this issue.
If I could effectively cool my 2600K and GTX 680, I would gladly go back to passive water cooling. The silence it offered was awesome and only interrupted by the hum of the old 74gb raptors.
And it was not difficult to manage, if you wanted to move the system there was quick release valves at the base of the Reserator that made it easy. Adding coolant was just a quick twist of the cap on the top of the Reserator as well.
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What killed Resenator as a family was exuberant price.
Apistek's creation could be viable option if it cost less than custom loop. IMHO 60% of custom. Knowing how expensive Resenator was as a setup I wouldn't bother with trying to sell this. If I would go with external LC I would buy one of Aqua computer Aquaducts.
the rad looks OK but the fans are NO NO..
why dont they make something like adding some fins on that rad so it can run passive
Yes I agree, they take a the piss.