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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.

Thought & Conclusion

Burn Baby Burn !

As a last test I decided to see which heatsinks would keep my PC running the longest in case of a fan failure.

The CPU is overclocked to 2650Mhz and running at 100% load, I took down the time needed for the CPU to heat up to 75°C

asetek VapoChill Micro: 4min35

Thermalright XP-90C: 5min11

Scythe Shogun: 7min43

The design of the Shogun allows better dissipation of the heat due to its massive size and weight. The XP-90C really is no good at this, close to double the weight of the Micro, it only lasts ~40 seconds longer.

Conclusion:

When asetek first displayed their VapoChill Micro at Cebit 2005 in Germany many people were interested in its performance, today I was able to find out myself that it delivers, convincingly!

Its light weight and low price might be misleading, but don’t make a mistake this heatsink can stand up amongst the best out there proudly. It’s not without flaws though, the fan duct needs a bit of revising to make it easier to install and prevent vibration and the fan controller needs to be more robust.

Overall I’m very impressed by this "little engine that could" and have no hesitation in recommending this product.

Pro:
+ Very easy installation
+ Feature packed
+ Very competitively priced

Con:
- Fan duct allows vibration noises, and push pins are cumbersome to use with it
- Fan controller a bit too fragile

I’d like to thank Morten from asetek for sending over the test sample.

Questions/Comments: forum thread

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