News : Thermaltake Big Ice

[Cooper]

Recently Thermaltake introduced new product - combined Water/Air cooling system for CPUs.


Source: Thermaltake.com/Japan
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[babyelf]

lol everything's getting so big

but good concept for this cooler

[[XC] leviathan18]

wtf how many pipes that thing has... it should perform pretty nice

[Starscream]

somehow i have the feeling that this isnt a cheep solution.
a Heatpipe CPU cooler and a CPU watercooling set.

Besides that i dont think the heatpipe thing adds alot to the performence compaired to a normal water cooling set.

somehow does look sexy in a wierd kinda way

[[XC] leviathan18]

my question is the water pass throug the pipes in the "air cooling" or just in the base?

[Starscream]

after rechecking the pics in the link, and reading the ICY, COOL, WARM in the pics its no heatpipe cooler on the CPU block but a 2nd rad.

Leviathan is rite

that does make it even more expensive then i thought.
i think buying a watercooling set for CPU with a 240mm rad is cheaper.

[Mr. Tinker]

my initial reaction is: PFFFFT!

[P_1]

my question is the water pass throug the pipes in the "air cooling" or just in the base?

I think that its a water block with heatpipes running through the inside of the block, to sort of combine water and air cooling. That way the water heat will be transferred to a radiator and the heatsink via heatpipes and a pump. I have a feeling this solution will perform VERY well.
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