Monday, May 30th 2011

New, Unnamed Company Unveils Large, Colorful, High-Performance CPU Cooler Prototypes

A new company in the PC cooling industry is born. It hasn't been named yet, or at least they haven't disclosed it to us. But, they've already come up with these gorgeous-looking CPU cooler prototypes, that come with color options of cherry red, orange, and teal, apart from basic white/silver. In each color option, the fins of the heatsink and the fans' impellers are colored. The white/silver variant has a special coating that improves heat dissipation. The prototype uses a double fin-tower push-pull design, similar to Noctua NH-D14.

From its polished indirect-contact base, five 8 mm thick heat pipes pass through, linking two large aluminum fin arrays that propagate perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard. There are two 140 mm fans, the first one pushes fresh air onto the first aluminum fin array, while the second one is nested between the two arrays, and conveys air from the first block, on to the second. The fans use a special blade design to improve air flow, so the designers could lower the fan speed further, reducing noise. More details are awaited.

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47 Comments on New, Unnamed Company Unveils Large, Colorful, High-Performance CPU Cooler Prototypes

#26
Wrigleyvillain
PTFO or GTFO
devguyYay! Now our heatsinks will match our purses and shoes!
Uh you hardly have a boring beige box there buddy. Since when is a nice looking and at least non-clashing color scheme not something we care about?

I think these look pretty sweet.
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#27
SeanG
Tese huge heatsinks are getting stupid.Just buy and H70 or the new H100 and you will never go back to these.
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#28
Zubasa
_JP_Thanks. That adds credibility to my theory.

I knew I had seen that cooler somewhere.
www.xigmatek.com/console/uploadfiles/Image/product/Bifrost-IIVD1065/bifrost-2vd1065-fp4.jpg
www.xigmatek.com/console/uploadfiles/Image/product/Bifrost-IIVD1065/bifrost-2vd1065-fp2.jpg
www.xigmatek.com/console/uploadfiles/Image/product/Bifrost-IIVD1065/bifrost-2vd1065-fp3.jpg

And...if my memory doesn't fail me, I think Spire made one very similar to this.
The second one looks a bit cheap, especially the fans, but it does seem to be able to take 60mm or 70mm fans screwed to the heatsink.
I only look at DX for "different" coolers so far...and I'm not satisfied...
Just FYI.
PC Cooler pretty much makes coolers for Spire ;)
They are also the OEM of quite a few other companies.
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#29
RejZoR
Fans look interesting.
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#30
theJesus
RejZoRFans look interesting.
Yeah, I wonder if/how those little fins on the blades affect sound. Doesn't seem like they'd be any quieter, but it might change the pitch or something to be less annoying.
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#31
Zubasa
theJesusYeah, I wonder if/how those little fins on the blades affect sound. Doesn't seem like they'd be any quieter, but it might change the pitch or something to be less annoying.
Those are vortex generators.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_generator
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#35
>>PhoeniX<<
Hmmm New Cooler you seek? Yoda says this look promising yes.
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#36
BraveSoul
this has got to be the next Noctua's NH-D14 ,, its too similar in design
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#37
Zubasa
theJesusThanks, that explains what they are and how they're used on aircraft, but I'm still not exactly sure what the effect would be here.
From what I saw, it should increase static pressure of the fans at low speeds.
Delaying airflow separation should also have positive effects on noise as well.
The fans blades are basically wings spinning around the rotor.
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#38
theJesus
ZubasaFrom what I saw, it should increase static pressure of the fans at low speeds.
Delaying airflow separation should also have positive effects on noise as well.
The fans blades are basically wings spinning around the rotor.
Alright, that makes sense then. Now I want those fans :laugh:
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#39
Funtoss
THOSe are huge! are they loud? O_o
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#40
KashunatoR
if noctua comes up with a better cooler than the D14 then we have a winner. i own the D14 and it's awesome. they say something about 20% improvement over that. if it's tru who beside silent computing freaks will ever need water cooling?
great news
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#41
fsjadner
That is, my good men, a product of Noctua. :)
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#42
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
_JP_Thanks. That adds credibility to my theory.
Credibility to your theory that "The photographer was, obviously, asked not to take a pic of the top of the cooler, otherwise we would have a manufacturer name by now"?

But he did take a top shot, and masked it.
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#43
Darksaber
Senior Editor & Case Reviewer
Obviously this cooler is not made by Noctua. Otherwise the photographer would not need to mask the brand name in these pictures. Right?
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#44
RejZoR
It could be the same way as those Cogage coolers that were exactly the same as Thermalright TRUE, but they were cheaper and under a different name. Is it?
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#45
TotalChaos
I am guessing the coolers are from NZXT
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#46
_JP_
TotalChaosI am guessing the coolers are from NZXT
Doesn't seem their style to me. Besides, there's a 3/4 shot that catches part of the top and I think I can see an "S" on it.
btarunrCredibility to your theory that "The photographer was, obviously, asked not to take a pic of the top of the cooler, otherwise we would have a manufacturer name by now"?

But he did take a top shot, and masked it.
Uhm, right, I should have rewrote what I said earlier. What I meant, by my theory, was that the company did not wish to be identified.
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#47
Strider
Nice to see more competition in the high-end air cooling area. It often drives down prices and with more people competing for your hard earned cash, we see better and better solutions for cooling pop up.

Will be interesting to see what this nameless company has to offer. There are a lot of well established and trusted companies out there, they will have their work cut out for them.
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