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asetek VapoChill Micro Review: Ultra Low Noise

Cooling/CPU Cooling by piotke @ 2005-08-09

asetek started with phase-change cooling, then they added water-cooling units to their product list, and today we see their first air cooled heatsink. Is their evolution backwards? The VapoChill Micro is very competitively priced, promises to remove up 150W of CPU generated heat, silently, and it weighs less then a feather. Too good to be true? Let?s find out.

Results: Noise VS Performance

Noise

Let’s rank the results by adding Temp + Noise :

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Although the VapoChill Micro is coming in third, it’s very close on the tail of its two rivals; taking into account that it weighs only 350gr versus the 690gr XP-90C and 790gr Shogun, it is quite a surprise to see this light weight in the same performance class as the others.

Now let’s turn up the heat.

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Here we see the heavy weights gain a larger advantage as they are able to cope better with the extra heat, the Athlon 64 @ 2650Mhz and 1.55v vcore is putting out close to 120Watt according to this online calculator.

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