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CPU, VGA and Laptop Coolers At Cebit 2009

Tradeshow & OC events by jmke @ 2009-03-10

Come take a look at the latest CPU, VGA, Laptop and System coolers which were on display at Cebit 2009 from Arctic-Cooling, Scythe, Thermaltake, Glacialtech, Gelid and Spire. From a 200mm Godhand CPU cooler to a 1U cooling wonder, Cebit did have something new to offer this year for the cooling enthusiasts.

Intro & Arctic Cooling

Introduction

Cebit this year was less spectular that in 2008, but there was still plenty to see and discover for the hardware enthusiast.

We’ll go over the different thermal cooling solutions in this article which you’ll find in shops later this year.

Arctic Cooling

The Arctic Cooling booth was filled with a lot of known VGA coolers, the Accelero series for mid and high end for each product out there were nicely displayed. Of course we’ve already seen them in pictures so we went on to look for the new coolers, we stumbled on the Accelero L2 Pro:

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At first sight it might well be used as a 1U CPU cooler, but it turns out to be a entry level VGA cooler, used by a lot of partners as the L2 Pro was visible on tons of VGA products all over Cebit.

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The Alpine CPU coolers series received an updated mounting to make it compatible with Socket 1366 (Core i7), the new version can be recognized by the number 11.

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For the high end they had the Freezer Extreme Revision 2 on display which adds Core i7 mounting:

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The popular decoupled fans Arctic Cooling is known for is replicated by their new fan series which are available in 80/92/120mm size, the F8/F9/F12 Pro:

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Laptop cooling is new, we saw a notepad cooler last year also, but this year it looks to be much closer to release, featuring an extra USB-hub and fan speed control.

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Comment from Rutar @ 2009/03/10

AC figured it out on their own that the real money is in making OEM coolers, my idea

Comment from jmke @ 2009/03/10

OEM is dangerous game when your factories are in China though

Comment from Rutar @ 2009/03/10

Not when manufacturing is one of your core competences.

Comment from jmke @ 2009/03/10

all they need to do is get blueprint and then they say thank you

Comment from Rutar @ 2009/03/10

Same could be said about any retail AC design, yet do you see exact copies of them?

Comment from jmke @ 2009/03/10

plenty of course; just look around

Comment from sandstorm @ 2009/03/18

Did you see the big *** coolers at the Scythe boot? I love good cooling performance but the things they displayed where not very practical anymore.

Comment from jmke @ 2009/03/18

you did check the article before posting here, right?

Comment from sandstorm @ 2009/03/18

Yes but is was ment as a retorical question? I just could not believe my eyes.
Did you speak with Hiroyuki Komi himself? He actually avoided my remak about the size of his coolers.

I guess he's aiming for the enthousiasts?

Comment from jmke @ 2009/03/18

Yes I spoke with Hiro, very cool guy, met with him for 5th time now

went for a few beers last year after Cebit hours

The Godhand should give better performance than the Orochi, with less material used; looking forward to it going retail!

if you want smaller interesting coolers, check out the Scythe Kama Angle and Katana 3; excellent price/performance units

Comment from sandstorm @ 2009/03/18

Nice! Did you have a lot of after parties this year? We had none unfortunately. I guess it's because we weren't planning to visit Cebit this year but decided to go anyway at the last moment.

One thing is for sure I will never stay until the weekend again. To much goody crazed consumers around.

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