| Wednesday, September 17 2008 |
Famous for their fin-array based air cooling, Thermalright had earlier announced that they would be releasing a full-copper version of their popular Ultra 120 CPU cooler. Reports suggest that the cooler indeed will make it to the market next month, just that the company would be making only 3,000 of these coolers making it a limited-edition product. The cooler uses copper in all its parts, starting from the CPU contact base, the six heatpipes, and the 50+ fins. With copper being a heavier metal than aluminum, the heatsink tips the scales at a whole 3 kilograms (roughly 6 lbs). The thermal properties of copper along with an element of aesthetic appeal would sell this product, which will be priced at US $99 when it releases next month.
Source: Expreview
Source: Expreview
User comments
3kg :eek: OMFG! I thought the Alu one was heavy. Bye bye mobo! I guess this will only work in desktop oriented chassis? Even then wont it fubar your board? Gonna need some sort of packing to stop it bending your mobo something wrotten.
Isnt copper heatpipes and Alu fins the best combo though? Cus alu is better at dissipating heat? I would imagine this thing will be damn expensive.
I didnt buy the 120 cus of its weight but thats ridiculous!
Isnt copper heatpipes and Alu fins the best combo though? Cus alu is better at dissipating heat? I would imagine this thing will be damn expensive.
I didnt buy the 120 cus of its weight but thats ridiculous!
HOLY SHIT! must get one.... sell xigmatek now..
Wow, so copper fins cool better ?
by: wolf2009Copper dissipates heat faster than almost all other metals.
Wow, so copper fins cool better ?
It's beautiful, but copper doesn't cool as well as aluminum, and at 6 POUNDS? Talk about not being practical...
It does a great job at keeping things at the same temperature as the inside of the case, but aluminum actually can keep things cooler than the ambient temperature around it. So if you've got great airflow, copper CAN be better than aluminum, but if you've got a hot case, an aluminum cooler should keep things safer than copper.
by: TRIPTEX_MTL
Copper dissipates heat faster than almost all other metals.
It does a great job at keeping things at the same temperature as the inside of the case, but aluminum actually can keep things cooler than the ambient temperature around it. So if you've got great airflow, copper CAN be better than aluminum, but if you've got a hot case, an aluminum cooler should keep things safer than copper.
by: chronIt does. Why do you think people make contact blocks essential parts of a cooler out of copper?
It's beautiful, but copper doesn't cool as well as aluminum, and at 6 POUNDS? Talk about not being practical...
the weight would be fine for benching rigs or any system where the board sits flat and not upright.
Tis a fine looking filly i must say chaps ;p
But will it fit on an i7,.....Hummmmmm,......:)
It's time the metal tray inside the cases offer multiple screw in points so that heavier heatsinks can be installed and mounted through the motherboard and supported directly by the metal case tray instead...
Copper conducts heat better than aluminium but it corrodes faster hence why aluminium ones are used as well.
Now theres an idea for a mod :)
Cooler bolts through board and metal tray.
kinda
Cooler bolts through board and metal tray.
kindaI need some benchy before going for this one. So sweet looking but the price is approaching liquid cooling or tec cooling.
That's the idea, they can just call it ATX+ case/board layout.
I have the aluminum one and it cools 3.8ghz at about 30 degrees, room temp.
by: chronThat is totally untrue. No material alone can cool something below ambient, physics just doesn't allow it.
It does a great job at keeping things at the same temperature as the inside of the case, but aluminum actually can keep things cooler than the ambient temperature around it. So if you've got great airflow, copper CAN be better than aluminum, but if you've got a hot case, an aluminum cooler should keep things safer than copper.
by: newtekie1Unless its an endothermic reaction
That is totally untrue. No material alone can cool something below ambient, physics just doesn't allow it.
by: newtekie1Just being a smartass here but.... if you use water cooling with one of the bong type cooling towers you can cool below ambient with only water and moving air thanks to evaporation.
That is totally untrue. No material alone can cool something below ambient, physics just doesn't allow it.
Do want! :eek:
I sure hope one or two of them reaches Denmark for me to buy :rockout:
I sure hope one or two of them reaches Denmark for me to buy :rockout:
by: Beertintedgoggles
Just being a smartass here but.... if you use water cooling with one of the bong type cooling towers you can cool below ambient with only water and moving air thanks to evaporation.
by: newtekie1;) Newtekie is right. There could be materials that react endothermic with a substance to cool it, but who makes heatsinks out of them?
That is totally untrue. No material alone can cool something below ambient, physics just doesn't allow it.
by: btarunrI did :cool:
;) Newtekie is right. There could be materials that react endothermic with a substance to cool it, but who makes heatsinks out of them?
by: DrPepperAnd wouldn't reaction mean that there's nothing left of the reactants, end of it? Bye bye CPU?
I did :cool:
by: btarunrI have special elements bta don't you know that :cool:
And wouldn't reaction mean that there's nothing left of the reactants, end of it? Bye bye CPU?
I have always heard that Copper absorbs heat better, while Aluminum releases it better.
But, thats just what I hear.... ;)
But, thats just what I hear.... ;)
Just when i thought everyone forgot about this cooler because of the xigmantec ones :D, well i might get this and sell my aluminum based one here :o