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Asetek Inc., the world leading supplier of liquid cooling for the computer industry announced today a new and groundbreaking slim form factor liquid cooling technology for extreme performance and workstation grade laptops and All-In-One PCs. Slim form factor liquid cooling enables laptop and AIO PC manufacturers to deliver mobility and sleek industrial designs without sacrificing performance.
"We see a growing need for higher performance personal computers, driven by ever more powerful modeling software for engineering, scientific and financial work, and for content creation and gaming," said André S. Eriksen, Founder and CEO of Asetek. "We also see high performance hardware expanding to more portable, sleeker devices like the highly successful M-series of notebooks from Alienware."
"For laptops and AIOs to deliver workstation and gaming PC performance, these machines must be able to take full advantage of desktop grade performance hardware. We have identified this need and designed our cooling solution to target these thinner machines," continued Eriksen.
The fundamental challenge in cooling desktop replacement laptops and All-In-One PCs is the lack of space for a proper thermal solution. Consequently, previous attempts at liquid cooling laptops have offered no performance improvement over traditional heat-pipe based heat sinks.
"Asetek successfully cracked the code of improving acoustic and thermal performance in a notebook without increasing the form factor," said Ole Madsen, VP of Engineering. "Our patent protected technology allows better utilization of the thermal modules used to cool the CPU and GPUs. That, along with our optimized coldplate technology enables the use of much more powerful hardware than air cooling could ever allow".
Asetek is showcasing its new technology in an Alienware M18x notebook with the CPU overclocked from 3.5 GHz to 4.4 GHz and the GPUs overclocked from 680 MHz to 800 MHz. In addition, the M18x achieved a 23% improvement in Futuremark's 3D Mark Vantage benchmark while reducing the noise output of the stock air-cooled laptop.
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"We see a growing need for higher performance personal computers, driven by ever more powerful modeling software for engineering, scientific and financial work, and for content creation and gaming," said André S. Eriksen, Founder and CEO of Asetek. "We also see high performance hardware expanding to more portable, sleeker devices like the highly successful M-series of notebooks from Alienware."
"For laptops and AIOs to deliver workstation and gaming PC performance, these machines must be able to take full advantage of desktop grade performance hardware. We have identified this need and designed our cooling solution to target these thinner machines," continued Eriksen.
The fundamental challenge in cooling desktop replacement laptops and All-In-One PCs is the lack of space for a proper thermal solution. Consequently, previous attempts at liquid cooling laptops have offered no performance improvement over traditional heat-pipe based heat sinks.
"Asetek successfully cracked the code of improving acoustic and thermal performance in a notebook without increasing the form factor," said Ole Madsen, VP of Engineering. "Our patent protected technology allows better utilization of the thermal modules used to cool the CPU and GPUs. That, along with our optimized coldplate technology enables the use of much more powerful hardware than air cooling could ever allow".
Asetek is showcasing its new technology in an Alienware M18x notebook with the CPU overclocked from 3.5 GHz to 4.4 GHz and the GPUs overclocked from 680 MHz to 800 MHz. In addition, the M18x achieved a 23% improvement in Futuremark's 3D Mark Vantage benchmark while reducing the noise output of the stock air-cooled laptop.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
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