Hacienda Heights (CA) - During a recent visit to Thermaltake's office, we learned that the company is working on creating a compact phase-change cooling solution – which would be affordable for the majority of PC enthusiasts who are looking into extreme overclocking of their processors.

The main goal of this project is not really to cool down your CPU to -10 degrees Celsius temperatures, but to take a more economical approach of cooling for processors such as new dual-core 45 nm Wolfdale or quad-core processors such as Core 2 Q6600. The system promises to keep CPU temperatures below zero degrees Celsius to enable extreme overclocking into the range of 4 GHz and higher.

Look at it as a water-cooling setup-experience that has been kept as quiet as possible. Since compressors are noisy beasts, Thermaltake’s engineers are currently experimenting with various models.

The company actually wants to offer this new phase-change cooling system at a water-cooling system pricepoint. As it stands right now, this product will be compatible with all major processors, since Thermaltake usually bundles a universal adapter for all popular sockets. There has been no information on availability and price, but we expect Thermaltake to offer this system between $200 and $300, which would only be about half of what you would have to pay for other cooling solutions for extreme overclocking applications.

I wonder...

Mar 15, 2008 00:22     

...which company Thermaltake does copy this idea from...
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Id hit that

Mar 15, 2008 03:50     

sha-zam! Id pay 200 for something with those claims, i could reuse it over and over because its hardly like im ever going to need anything else in the next 3-4 years (so probably 3-4 processors)
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Copied? Must be from me...

Mar 15, 2008 08:09     

Just because they're looking to do an affordable refrigeration setup, doesn't mean they've copied it from somebody else. Heck, I was trying to figure a way to use the refrigeration system from a cube frig' years ago. Does that mean they stole the idea from me? I wonder how they'll deal with moisture build-up?
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Not copied from you...

Mar 16, 2008 03:03     

I think he meant copied from here: http://vapochill.com/ The big difference is the price point. Vapochill has been around for quite a while and is the Ferrari of the overclocking world. Unfortunately one of their systems will put you back close to $1000.
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@ rebturtle

Mar 16, 2008 22:38     

you could equally say vapochill copied the idea from kelvanator. it work on the very basic principal that all compressors do.
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