Graphic Cards Sapphire Turns To Liquid Metal Cooling

deejay

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pic Courtsey of VR-Zone.com

Sapphire is releasing its next generation of graphic card coolers based on liquid metal which is even more efficient than water cooling. The liquid metal will flow through the copper pipes circled with electromagnetic phenomenon to cool down the card. Some early testing showed that prototype cooled Radeon X850XT PE card to just 12 Celsius. At this time liquid metal cooling will have some fans on while a final design might be fanless. Sapphire will have this product ready in July and will launch many other SKUs based on it.

This technology is actually developed by nanoCoolers and here are some detailed information :



pic Courtsey of VR-Zone.com
"The cooling loop consists of liquid metal as the working fluid, a heat source exchanger, an ambient heat exchanger, an electromagnetic pump, and interconnecting tubing. The liquid metal has significant advantages over other single phase liquid solutions. The thermal and physical properties of the material give it the ability to cool extremely high heat fluxes. With its very low vapor pressure, the boiling point of the material is in excess of 2000°C. This provides the capability to cool extremely high power densities without the liquid-metal changing phase, removing power density as the limiting factor in cooling performance. The liquid metal is non-flammable, non-toxic and environmentally friendly. As a metal, the liquid is both highly thermally conductive and highly electrically conductive. The thermal conductivity makes it ideal for heat removal and dissipation. The electrical conductivity enables the use of electromagnetic pumps to propel the liquid."
Source: VR-Zone
 
12 degree is just cool.....will improve alot of thngs in the future cards to come.....OC'ing potetial nd stuff......nd yup...wud luv to c it on CPU's......but wht wud b pricing of such cards??
 
Yeah, if Sapphire is looking to implement this on its cards, it looks quite possible that it may be cheap enough for mass production :)
 
@ deejay - Thats fantastic peice of info you have found.

12 Degree - now thats cooool.
Overclocking will be absolutely gr8 on these GPU's
If this new tech only for Sapphire GPU's or other GPU manufacturers are also comming
up with this tech.

Are "nanoCoolers" producing this mechanism for CPU cooling - ne news on this.

Also wanted to ask is Mercury the fluid here.

Well it wont be cheap at all i have a strong feeling about it , even if saphire is coming with it.
 
Well it could also be due to the fact that next generation chips might be running really hot. Hence a diff approach required
 
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