Wednesday, October 16th 2019
Bitspower Launches New Summit M CPU Block with OLED Display for Intel and AMD Platforms
Following the success of their Touchaqua-branded Summit MS OLED CPU block earlier this year, which was for Intel platforms only at that time, Bitspower have decided to add the OLED display to their main brand in the form of the new Summit M CPU water block. The design is a departure from the squared-off Summit MS, with a smaller form factor that also increases CPU socket compatibility to the red camp out of the box. The OLED display is housed on a metal top plate, with an acrylic body enabling side views of the coolant, a temperature sensor enabling readout on the display, as well as the integrated dRGB LEDs for lighting options compatible with ASUS AURA Sync, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, MSI Mystic Light Sync, and ASRock Polychrome.
The cooling engine uses a nickel-plated copper base plate, with 0.3 mm CNC-machined fins and microchannels that are part of a split central-inlet flow promising high coolant flow directly over the fins to remove as much heat from the CPU as possible. This is similar to the vast majority of CPU block designs in practice, but manufacturers tend to experiment with the flow schematic to see if they can do better, so time will tell how the Summit M fares on the TechPowerUp test bench. In the meantime, it is available for direct purchase from the Bitspower store for 4500 NTD (~$150 USD) before any applicable taxes and shipping costs.
The cooling engine uses a nickel-plated copper base plate, with 0.3 mm CNC-machined fins and microchannels that are part of a split central-inlet flow promising high coolant flow directly over the fins to remove as much heat from the CPU as possible. This is similar to the vast majority of CPU block designs in practice, but manufacturers tend to experiment with the flow schematic to see if they can do better, so time will tell how the Summit M fares on the TechPowerUp test bench. In the meantime, it is available for direct purchase from the Bitspower store for 4500 NTD (~$150 USD) before any applicable taxes and shipping costs.
23 Comments on Bitspower Launches New Summit M CPU Block with OLED Display for Intel and AMD Platforms
Its it just the niche market, they can ask whatever they want type of deal?
Even half of what they ask I would find a bit chunk of change for what you are ultimately buying.
The waterblocks must be inserted in various electrified chemical tanks and follow a chain process
As is often the case, people use low-quality, poor-quality liquids that will ruin water blocks putting colors or whatever else just for the looks.
Nor do they take into account that what they put in the loop gets hot and it is normal that anything you add will end up breaking down or going into conflict with the materials ( radiators/pump/waterblocks)
So for me the price is justified. And we're also talking about this waterblock including a temperature sensor with independent illuminated display it cant be cheap.
A temperature sensor and a display, I mean, those really cost nothing at all tbh.
Do you think micro channel fins are easy to make , while retaining structural strength and chemical resistance.
Tbf it is expensive but your being extreme as a 20£ part would not equal that of this.
I made some pretty small parts with very tight tolerance for the oil industry where even a “perfect run“ would have errors because they were so small(extremely frustrating to get to the last process and it being.001off tolerance...)
I uh hated making these little pistons...
See gamers nexus waterblock factory tour on the tube.
While microfins are more delicate than your typical milling, the process is extremely long in the tooth (as with all the manufacturing processes) and as such, the original R&D and tooling/die costs have been more than recuperate. Anyone that has either owned a business or worked at a high enough level in one knows that labor is always the highest cost (at least when based in a first world country) and regardless of the initial cost of the manufacturing equipment, once automation of manufacturing is implemented, the actual cost per production unit is rather low. Add to that the fact that these PC watercooling companies have been around for at least 5+ years, the initial cost of the production equipment has long been recuperated driving the cost of production even lower. Lastly, the vast majority of these blocks, from all these companies, have been using the same designs with very slight modifications for many years, meaning R&D, engineering, and design costs are much lower than many would claim.
Like I said, I understand that industrial compression fittings are made by companies with greater production volumes, but the fact that industrial compression fittings, even mil spec ones, are a quarter of the price of PC water cooling fittings while being made with more expensive materials and smaller tolerances, demonstrates that these PC watercooling brands are charging a huge [unnecessary] premium.
Water Cooling is larger than ever, has more competition than ever, more manufacturers than ever and as I stated previously, the initial tooling/die and R&D costs have been more than recuperated. And yet, the basic price of a fitting or water block has not significantly gone down in several years even when the commodities and raw materials for manufacturing have seen considerable price drops (I'm always well informed on these prices for both my financial investments and my own small business production).
This is just more of the same PC brand egregious price inflation, just like, for example, with addressable LEDs. You can go on aliexpress and buy 5 meters (15+ feet) of 144 LED/meter strips (one IC/LED) for $50 or less, and yet corsair, nzxt, Asus, etc will charge $20 for a half meter of 30 LED/meter strips that come with their stupid proprietary connectors instead of an industry standard, generic 3 pin JST connector (I can't stand that stupid 4 minus 1 = 3 pin connector that Asus uses for their mobo addressable headers that for some reason the other mobo manufacturers adopted... An adapter to generic 3 pin JST is included for free with every mobo, so the reasoning behind their proprietary connector does not make sense with respect to generating more profits). The price inflation for these LED strips is completely unjustified, but demonstrates that all these PC brands do it and will continue to do it as long as PC "enthusiasts" continue to pay.
Part of the problem is that so many pc "enthusiasts" seemingly do not know something exists (like far cheaper generic addressable LEDs) until Corsair slaps their label on it, then proceeds to fleece the PC community. If they were more aware and can assumed to be rational, then NOBODY would be buying led strips from any PC brand with their severely inflated prices and instead be buying generic ones with the same exact ICs for a quarter of the price....and yet you see plenty of people buying the Corsair node or Nzxt Hue+ for $60+ while a $15 generic, programmable controller with the ability to operate 2048 pixels/LEDs are never considered. It's frustrating.
So pay yourself 75K a year, pay 25K in taxes, a building cost with internet, utilities, insurance for maybe 30K a year. How many can you produce a day, ship, collect for?
130K overhead means sales of $360 a day every day just to cover base expense, not including supplies, shipping and warranty. So at $50 each that's 7 roughly a day.
Oh and these machines ARE new they don't mill.......
Go watch gamers nexus video , get educated then argue with me.
Clearly you get frustrated by bullshit.
I bought Corsair lighting for the SOFTWARE not the admitted generic strips.
Pps generic strip manufacturers have f all to offer for unified control tied to many types of motherboard, i looked.
What?
Socket TR4: I'm I a Joke to you?!? ...
Just like 2-3 years ago you manufactured very nice, clean, sleek, inoffensive stuff blocks at very high quality (... and price).
Now you adding bloody RGB, pointless plastic covers for even more money. Sorry guys but you certainly lost the plot.