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ATI's official partner Sapphire Technology is showcasing a new type of video card cooling at CeBIT 2009. The VGA heatsink incorporates Vapour Chamber technology and will be featured on some of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 video cards to come. The Vapour Chamber technology is a rather new kind of cooling technology for video cards, and until now it was used only by ASUS. In essence, it is very similar to the heat-pipe technology we've seen plenty of times before, taking heat and transferring it away from its source to a cooler area. However, in the Vapour Chamber technology the cooling effect is achieved not by a gass, but by a vacuum chamber. The heatsink occupies two PCI slots, and also features a big fan on top. Unfortunately, that's all the information we have for now.
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Originally Posted by mr. biggums well isnt that different would be a shame if where to rupture one of the chambers though |
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Originally Posted by Papa.Smurf This new VCT stuff is pretty interesting i wanna see some benches though comparing standard heat pipes to this stuff. And at least it looks better than the Asus F1 formula card cooler... |
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Originally Posted by IceColdFreezie How much cooler would a card with vapor cooling run? Cooler doesn't look that horrible. At least its not a brick like the 295...
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Originally Posted by bad_haze Nothing beats water cooling. |
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Originally Posted by CattleRustler in b4 "nothing beats proper* water cooli..." GAH! nvm |
| ...Sapphire Technology is showcasing a new type of video card cooling at CeBIT 2009. The VGA heatsink incorporates Vapour Chamber technology... ...The Vapour Chamber technology is a rather new kind of cooling technology for video cards, and until now it was used only by ASUS... |
