Saturday, January 13th 2024
Bitspower at 2024 CES: Griffin Radiator Fans, Summit Blocks, New Water Cooling Gear, Enigma Light Panels
Bitspower brought a large bag of new toys at the 2024 International CES. The first thing that caught our attention was a familiar-looking case with infinity reflection lighting. On a closer look, it turned out to be a Lian Li PC-O11D Evo XL that's been given a neat aesthetic uplift thanks to the new Enigma Light Panel kit by Bitspower. You arrange these along the edges of your side- and front panels, and the provide an impressive, infinity reflection effect. It works with standard 3-pin ARGB, so you can mix it with your regular lighting setup. Next up, are a slew of CR Slim series reservoirs that are designed in the distribution plate format, which they line up with one of your glass panels, providing a better view of your coolant. There are various sizes, ranging from 120 mm x 120 mm, going all the way up to 803 mm. x 140 mm, with fitting ports at strategic locations to align with your CPU and VGA blocks, and radiators. The reservoirs come with preparation for a standard D5 pump, and feature a side cover that has the ARGB LED lighting, the diodes aren't studded into the acrylic as such. Bitspower released a mounting brackets of various sizes to help you correctly mount the reservoirs and accessories in place.Next up, is an innovative new full-coverage VGA water block by Bitspower. PCBs are getting shorter than the cards, which leaves a lot of wasted acrylic for water blocks to size up to the backplate. Bitspower figured that it can shift the coolant mounts toward the tail-end of the card, and use the space to fit a pump, so the card can be directly connected to a radiator. With DIY liquid cooling builds having multiple radiators these days, driving several independent loops, this particular solution reduces the need for a separate reservoir; as you can now directly connect the card to its own radiator. The actual block is nickel-plated copper, with an acrylic top; and the coolant channel guiding it not just through the micro-fin lattice over the GPU area; but also around the GPU, cooling the memory and VRM. The card in the example at Bitspower's booth appears to be a Radeon RX 7900 series card, but Bitspower is designing the block for more brands—these need to be card-specific.It isn't a Bitspower booth without fittings, and Bitspower showed off a host of new fittings and stops with the groovy Bitspower logo. Bitspower specializes in brass fittings in several single-tone, and dual-done metal trims, including chrome, silver, bare brass, gold, black+gold, all-plate, and all white.We have to take a moment here to show you Bitspower's incredible MSI Project Zero CPU water block, calleed the Summit Block Revo. In all the Project Zero and ASUS BTF example builds we've come across, the only piece of ugliness has been the coolant tubes sticking out from the CPU water block or AIO block. Bitspower has an innovative solution to this. Since Project Zero cases have plenty of crawlspace behind the motherboard tray so you can wrestle with high-gauge 24-pin and 16-pin cables; Bitspower figured that a component can be snuck in here, to which you connect your water cooling loop. This component conveys coolant to the other side of the motherboard, taking advantage of the four mounting holes that are standard with CPU sockets. The actual CPU water block is where it should be, but has no coolant tube ugliness. The block and the coolant tube adapter in a way sandwich the GPU from either sides of the motherboard. A brilliant solution. You don't need an MSI Project Zero or ASUS BTF motherboard to use these; they've been designed to work on any motherboard that have standard cooler mount holes. Just make sure there's an inch of clearance behind the motherboard tray. The rear-end assembly has its main fittings along one of its sides, so its Z-height is no more than an inch.Next up, Bitspower showed us their large socket CPU water blocks meant for AMD Socket sTRX5, and Intel Socket LGA4677. These blocks come with thicker primary material, and large coolant chambers, which should suit the MCM silicon underneath. Bitspower also showed off its regular desktop CPU water blocks for Intel Socket LGA1700 and AMD Socket AM5. Since LGA1700 and the upcoming Intel LGA1851 reportedly share the same mount-hole and package specifications, all premium LGA1700 coolers purchased now will retain longevity through to the next-gen; while AMD said it intends to launch new processor models on AM5 to 2025 and beyond; so your Bitspower Summit should be cooling processors for a long while.We conclude our tour with the Bitspower Griffin 120 fans, which are designed for high static pressure, and suitable for radiator applications. These come in "forward" and "reverse" form-factors; and in two color options—black and white. Bearing options include fluid-dynamic, and sleeved.
1 Comment on Bitspower at 2024 CES: Griffin Radiator Fans, Summit Blocks, New Water Cooling Gear, Enigma Light Panels
Perhaps with super thin hoses they'll fit, but it's -IMHO- super weird design choice, especially with 8 DIMMs. At least that acrylic version for normal cases won't have clearance issues. I bet even server versions with pump won't be anywhere near 315-385 Euros EK - ludicrously - slapped on their Quantum line.
So from established vendors (AC/EK/BP) now only waiting for Watercool's Heatkiller (*cough* "Threadcooler" ;) *cough*) for SP5.