ADATA Shows Prototype XPG HYBRID COOLER at CES 2024

[GFreeman]

ADATA has showcased a rather interesting XPG HYBRID COOLER at CES 2024 which actually integrates an AIO solution into the size of your standard air cooler, packing pump, loop, and a radiator into a single unit. The new cooler promises to be smaller and lighter than a standard AIO cooler but more efficient than an air cooler.

The new HYBRID COOLER is a patented dual-fan CPU cooler that can cool CPUs with TDP of up to 280 W. It will support both standard as well as Intel Xeon and AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO sockets, and uses two high-performance 120 mm VENTO PRO PWM fans by Nidec. The entire unit is slightly taller than a 120 mm fan and looks pretty neat, but unfortunately, it is still just a concept and ADATA did not have it running inside a system. Hopefully, we'll see it officially launched soon and to see how well it compares to standard AIOs and standard air coolers.



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[Deleted member 237269]

Interesting concept

 

[Chaitanya]

Interesting concept

Not the first, Thermaltake(difficult to find any photos of that CPU heatsink with integrated water block), CoolerMaster(being the most recent one), Evercooler/Xigmatech and few others tried these in mid 2000s. Overall its very difficult to get things right with hybrid aproach.

 

[Sp33d Junki3]

Been done before, Adata took all to make this. Which is a great concept and one where I would use.
Small and compact, like too see how this really works for temps.

 

[ymbaja]

I don’t get it. How is this any better than an air cooler? The benefit to aio is you can use larger/more fans and place them away from the heat source. Aio doesn’t magically reduce the temperature. This just adds complexity to the same space. The only possible benefit is the liquid would add thermal capacity but I don’t really see that being a plus once it heats up. Going the other direction however, developing flexible heat pipes to move the fans of air coolers to the case exterior, that would be interesting.

 

[sLowEnd]

The extra potential failure points of a water cooling setup, without the extra surface area afforded by a large radiator? Sign me up! /s

 

[TechLurker]

Not the first, Thermaltake(difficult to find any photos of that CPU heatsink with integrated water block), CoolerMaster(being the most recent one), Evercooler/Xigmatech and few others tried these in mid 2000s. Overall its very difficult to get things right with hybrid aproach.

If that Thermaltake hybrid the same one I'm thinking of, it was under the Volcano series and had the option to either add coolant into the pipes to improve air cooling (took longer to thermally throttle with coolant in the pipes), or link it to Thermaltake's own Big Water liquid cooling systems of the time and use the second radiator (often external, or the novel PCI Big Water radiator that used a blower to blow air through the heatsink and out of the PC) to support the cooling. There's still one used example available on Ebay. Related, GamersNexus reviewed a more modern Chinese equivalent that was being sold for a time back in the late 2010s, but the Chinese one had more flaws than the old Thermaltake Volcano hybrid.

The CoolerMaster one has been out for some time (still available on Newegg) and has seen some niche use in SFX builds.

I owned the Xigmatech version, and it was a nice novelty for the period, but when I was introduced to Thermalright's legendary tower coolers, that pretty much ended my experimentation with novel hybrid cooling for a time.

 

[Chaitanya]

If that Thermaltake hybrid the same one I'm thinking of, it was under the Volcano series and had the option to either add coolant into the pipes to improve air cooling (took longer to thermally throttle with coolant in the pipes), or link it to Thermaltake's own Big Water liquid cooling systems of the time and use the second radiator (often external, or the novel PCI Big Water radiator that used a blower to blow air through the heatsink and out of the PC) to support the cooling. There's still one used example available on Ebay. Related, GamersNexus reviewed a more modern Chinese equivalent that was being sold for a time back in the late 2010s, but the Chinese one had more flaws than the old Thermaltake Volcano hybrid.

The CoolerMaster one has been out for some time (still available on Newegg) and has seen some niche use in SFX builds.

I owned the Xigmatech version, and it was a nice novelty for the period, but when I was introduced to Thermalright's legendary tower coolers, that pretty much ended my experimentation with novel hybrid cooling for a time.

Thanks for linking to Thermaltake Volcano, I couldnt remember which series it came under. It was quite a niche and rarity even back then(no wonder there was little coverage from media). Thermaltakes solution was to build that water block close to the heatsource instead of what that Aliexpres version did. CoolerMaster also had GPU cooler for Geforce 8800 where CM had soldered a metal pipe onto heatpipes to provide some extra heat transfer capabilties. A friend of mine had it for his SLI setup back in the day.

 

[CheapMeat]

HP also had self-contained liquid coolers on their business / enterprise desktop & tower workstation machines. They must have sold tens of thousands of these over the years to actual businesses. According to some of the comments, HP were certainly morons then. I believe some of the Dell Precision line had a similar one too.