Sunon Waturbo

[evilharp]

Saw this on Frostytech.

Basically it is a watercooling system squashed into a big heatsink. No pump or hoses to deal with. Circulation is driven by an impeller that is driven by the fan's motor.

Quote:

The structure of the Sunon Waturbo (TM) liquid circulation cooling system is demonstrated by Fig. 2. The five key components of the traditional liquid cooling system are still represented: a pump, heat exchanger, radiator, fan, and reserve tank. In the Sunon Waturbo system, however, four of those components (everything but the fan) are packaged in a single, sealed liquid-holding radiator device. This radiator device is sandwiched between the fan (the active cooler, which also drives the pump) and the CPU (the heat generating device in the system).

What is missing is all of the rubber tubing that connects the different components in the traditional liquid cooling system. By eliminating the rubber tubing, and all of the connection joints with the different components, the risk of leakage has been drastically reduced. The only possible sources for leakage now are the top and bottom of the radiator device, which interface with the fan and CPU respectively. These two junction points are more easily sealing with the use of standard O-Rings.

Link: http://www.sunonusa.com/index2.asp?f=news&p=pr_waturbo (Link has diagrams and pictures)

Looks like watercooling for "dummies". There is a comparsion versus an Intel oem heatsink and the Waturbo is better (quieter/lower temps) but it looks feeble compared to a full on watercooling setup or even a good heatpipe cooler.

Might be a good gimmic for oems (i.e. "Our PCs are all watercooled, unlike _________. Watercooling is the best"). Just think of the hype that the watercooled Macs generated.

Edit: I misshpeled Sunon, D'oh!

 

[RallyMaster]

that's some messed up shizzle i tell ye

 

[herm0016]

looks like a bad idea to me. what happins if there is a little air in there, and the motherboard is vertical? a superheated spot on the cpu? it says its test what horozontal!

 

[VinDSL]

Looks like watercooling for "dummies". There is a comparsion versus an Intel oem heatsink and the Waturbo is better (quieter/lower temps) but it looks feeble compared to a full on watercooling setup or even a good heatpipe cooler.

Bwahahaha! Thanks for the laugh!

Looks like something JC Whitney would sell, if they were in the computer business...