The world's first carbon-based CPU cooler

[3NZ0]

lol i was gonna say "if this cooler actually beats tower 120 or ultra 120 extreme, then hell yeah ill buy it"

Ah, much better, i agree 100%

[californian7856]

Ah, much better, i agree 100%

yeah lol sometimes what u typed isnt what u thought u typed lol

but anyway yeah i would like anadtech do an article on this, cuz Ultra 120 extreme beats tower 120 by quite a lot actually

[Serra]

Even *if* the base is made of graphitic foam and outperforms copper, this monstrosity will still be held back by the fact that water CONVECTION with that little water is just not enough of a force to effectively cool a hot CPU. Add on to that the fact that *at best* this uses a single 120mm fan. Regardless of what it's made of - it could be made of pure diamond for all I care - the maximum amount of cooling power it has will be limited as well by that one fan. You can only remove as much heat as you can put into air coming into/out of the device, and the more air you put in per second, the more you heat you can transfer. A single "silent" (read - low CFM) 120mm (hopefully) fan just doesn't pull in enough air to make this the best thing since sliced bread, especially when you consider all the restriction the air is going though. That's going to slow it down even more.

Again, I hope that the OCZ ocgineers have looked at some of these issues and designed them out... but there are certain facts this in this universe, and until I see some info that says otherwise, this thing just won't be the best thing out there.

I'm not saying it won't work at all, it will. The thing is though that unlike many popular heatpipe soultions today who can achieve a minimum temperature of around 20 degrees C (because that's the condensing point for many heatpipes, they simply don't make use of the heaptipes themselves beyond using the copper tubing as a conductor, making no use of the liquid inside), the *minimum* temperature attainable by this design will be by definition of the engineering, higher than that. Now, it may very well be that if the target minimum is around, say, 40 degrees (complete guess without a better glimpse of the inside) that it is very effective at holding it near that temperature, but it just DOES NOT have the capacity to go much lower.