VapoChill Micro Extreme Performance

princejim · 25 Oct 2006 at 16:44

VapoChill Micro Extreme Performance, how good is phase change cooling over normal air cooling.

james_earl · 25 Oct 2006 at 16:58

massively. does not even compare. although because you are posing this question i would suggest you should maybe read up a little before considering phase cooling. it has a few tricky elements to install and is not worth it unless you want to clock the nuts off something. theres a time and a place for phase, i would suggest you post your specs and intentions and some of the phase boys may offer some advice.

welshtom · 25 Oct 2006 at 16:59

"VapoChill Micro Extreme Performance" is not a phase change unit, but just a normal heatpipe cooler.

Vapochill XE or LS are phase change and cost ~£350 upwards

Tom

james_earl · 25 Oct 2006 at 17:02

well spotted

Duke · 25 Oct 2006 at 17:06

I had this heatsink on my Opteron and it was quiet and performed really well

princejim · 25 Oct 2006 at 17:16

VapoChill Micro Extreme Performance (Socket 754/939/940) (06-L-0015) (HS-005-VP)
The VapoChill Micro™ CPU coolers are characterized by hermetically sealed gas/liquid chambers exploiting the most effective cooling principle available: phase change cooling. This creates one of the most effective CPU cooling solutions in the mainstream market. What does this mean then??? From the OCuk web site.

TaKeN · 25 Oct 2006 at 17:51

It means it has heatpipes,

If you want the best in air cooling, then your Looking at the Scythe Ninja, Or the Tuniq Tower,

The Tower is better , but hard to get hold of in the Uk.

All the above coolers use heatpipes and are better than the Vapochill Micro