review CES 2012 Day 1 Coverage

Shadow of Death
Zotac's liquid cooled display was quite interesting. I do think that the addition of the heatsink would have done wonders for the cooling performance. I say this because the cooling action stems solely from the fluid being able to boil, thus removing the heat. With a bare CPU interface there is not that much surface area or nucleation zones for the boiling action to stem from. With their orange heatsink coated with a very thin layer of diamond dust, the sheer amount of nucleation points was exponentially increased. If you think about it the GPU core, which in my experience, outputs just as much or more thermal energy than a CPU. Since their heatsink + special coolant brought that bad boy down to ~45°C under load, I would count that as pretty damn impressive.

I also really enjoyed the design methodology that Fractal exhibited. I really hope that I can get one to review for you guys.