Prometeia Mach II, what happened to these?

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Hi guys

Years ago I had a Prometeia Mach II which allowed me to overclock a P4 3.0Ghz to 4Ghz, no easy task back in those days.

It only occured to me the other day I haven't seen a cooler of that type for a long time. Did they die out?
 
All the cool kids had the Athlon 64 anyway. :p

Those systems have become a niche due to CPUs becoming cooler. Some still use them though, Little Devil sells cases with them installed at a stupidly high price. Asetek moved away from phase change in to the LCLC (low cost liquid cooling) market and became an OEM for Antec and Corsair.
 
The Mach II GT and the Vapo LS stopped manufacture years ago.
Both were good for clocking single and dual core cpu's, but the step up to 4 core and hyperthreading was simply too large a load on them.
They can be converted to run quads with a re-tune and a larger evap, but for the cost involved it would make more sense to have a Custom SS built to take the load of 6 core cpu's.
 
kitfit1 said:
The Mach II GT and the Vapo LS stopped manufacture years ago.
Both were good for clocking single and dual core cpu's, but the step up to 4 core and hyperthreading was simply too large a load on them.
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That doesn't make sense considering the size of stock air coolers these days. They're much smaller now than they used to be!
 
Stonedofmoo said:
That doesn't make sense considering the size of stock air coolers these days. They're much smaller now than they used to be!
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I'm talking about 5ghz/5.5ghz clocks 6 cores with HT enabled.
There is no way that any sort of air cooler is going to be able to handle the sort of heat output at these clocks.
 
CPUs didn't get cooler, far from it, they've actually got hotter. The Vapo LS was tuned between 180-200W, my i7 at 4.4GHz pumps out about 200W!
 
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