Thursday, July 12th 2007
OCZ Cryo-Z just around the corner
OCZ has been talking about its Cryo-Z phase-change cooler for quite some time now and, although promises were high and mighty, the minutes, hours, days and months have passed and nothing became a reality.
The Cryo-Z has been recently deemed as canceled, the rumor was countered by OCZ but the whole truth is that, more than a year after it was first showcased, the Cryo-Z is finally on the home stretch. The phase-change cooler is currently in the safe hands of OCZ's engineers and it will arrive in stores very soon, before the end of this quarter. It should be very appealing to anyone who wants to run (overclocked) CPUs at sub-zero temperatures.
The unit should cost around $300 (last pricing update a year ago).
Source:
TechConnect
The Cryo-Z has been recently deemed as canceled, the rumor was countered by OCZ but the whole truth is that, more than a year after it was first showcased, the Cryo-Z is finally on the home stretch. The phase-change cooler is currently in the safe hands of OCZ's engineers and it will arrive in stores very soon, before the end of this quarter. It should be very appealing to anyone who wants to run (overclocked) CPUs at sub-zero temperatures.
The unit should cost around $300 (last pricing update a year ago).
38 Comments on OCZ Cryo-Z just around the corner
Even though I don't overclock and don't need sub-zero cooling, It is a nice little innovation, perhaps the technology will become commonplace and we will all be running 10 GHz cpus.
Cool!
But I still think THEORETICALY that having watercooling is more Practical. If they want to be more Innovative then maybe they should work around that & try to evolve water cooling a little further....
For instance. Having a little Cryo unit which attaches to the radiator on your water cooling kit & lowering the temp of the water even further then what the fans are capable of???? IMHO that would sell mega big bucks.
In this day & age where they have Air coolers available which rivals watercoolers theres really not much point yet for such a unit unless you were running a 10Ghz CPU or an uber hot graphics card or chipset. but as far as I know Cryo-coolers are only available to work on CPU's not GPU's which kinda makes them less practical for the amount of cash spent on it
EDIT: Cryo me a river :P
I dont think I have to run through all the negatives of having a Cryo-cooler unit.
Phase change is sub-zero, water will quickly freeze rendering the system useless.
Using water as the phase change medium will not work as well as water boils @ 100c, by that time your core will be dead.
I don't see how water and phase-change can be "combined", please explain.
mmmmmmmmm core0 -14c/core1 -14c :toast:
Clockspeed scales with temperature. -10C Vs -40C will give you different overclocks.
And thats what this is for.
If they can manage to pull off a $300 price tag I'll be impressed. It would sell like hotcakes.
And knowing OCZ they'll hopefully build it with a decent compressor so it can be regassed to something a bit.... more extreme :)
Its possible to do a dual head phase change, but its really difficult. People have done SLI autocascades and such.
You'll get better results with your CPU direct die cooled and NB water cooled, than futile attempts to sub zero cool your NB. Not to mention Chilled water loop insulation is a LOT of insulating to do. You have to insulate prettymuch everything, and doing that with a multi-block setup would be a NIGHTMARE.
Also note, sub zero cooling your ram is useless. Ram behaves like a capacitor. Cooling it will not provide speed increases. Just keep it within its operating ranges. (This is not saying cooling ram is ineffective, I'm saying cooling your ram beyond whats necessary i.e. -10C is counterproductive)
@ freedomeclipse.. opeth is my favorite band of all time :)
Untill then... I will stay sub zero with my TEC and water cooling setup :)
Especially considering you would actually see a benefit from using it ;)
300bucks is an awesome price for this.. the cheapest you could get a phase change system is 900 bucks from MachII, or Asetek.
look at the pic, it says +26C!!!! i dont think its all that powerful?
www.over-clock.com/ivb/index.php?showtopic=15784
if its true, then its on par with my peltier setup.... i get 24C core0, 14 core1 under load on my overclocked opty 185