DeepCool Adds Vapor Chamber to an Air Cooler: AIO-Like Performance at Air Cooler Reliability
by Anton Shilov on June 18, 2024 8:00 AM EST
While the market for high-end CPU coolers has decidedly shifted towards closed-loop all-in-one liquid coolers over the last several years, air cooling remains alive and well. Even at the high-end, there are still further improvements and innovations being made, such as DeepCool's vapor chamber-based tower cooler, which was demonstrated at Computex.
Named the Assassin IV VC Vision, DeepCool's design is an advanced concept vehicle that equips a tower cooled with both a vapor chamber in the base as well as has an LCD pad on top for extra flourish. The vapor chamber is said to increase the cooling capacity by 20W, adding a bit more of an edge to an already very powerful tower cooler design.
While we expect this one to come to market eventually, don't be surprised if both vapor chamber and the screen to land on other products together or separately. For example, the massive DeepCool Assassin IV VC Vision has a more compact brother that has a screen and a vapor chamber.
The unit builds on top of the already monstrous DeepCool Assassin IV that comes with seven 0.6-mm heat pipes and can mount up to three 120/140mm fans, depending on installation (one is magnetically attached). With a weight of 1.575 kilograms – almost entirely copper and aluminum – this one is already good enough to cool down even the highest-performing CPUs.
DeepCool is currently trying to figure out recommended pricing for its Assassin IV VC Vision cooler, but the original Assassin IV costs $99.99, so expect the unit with a vapor chamber and a screen to build on top of that.
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edzieba - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
Reminds me of the 2013 Cooler Master V8 GTS. A decade on, and vapor chambers still do not make much sense vs the much cheaper but just as thermally effective option of packing heatpipes side by side when you are not extremely volume constrained (which is why laptops use them).PeachNCream - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
They don't need to make sense. They need to be different enough to cause the unthinking target market to make a purchase based on the perception that the product in question is somehow unique. Its a standard marketing technique that works very well on most potential buyers. In the case of people interested in these things (think younger males that identify as computer enthusiasts and gamers - who else would they be targeting with a product name like Assassin haha!) the buyers are exceptionally uninformed and have been conditioned for years with various marketing to program in a desire to make purchases. These will absolutely sell and the people behind them will do well for themselves.LauRoman - Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - link
They're targetting pearless assassin buyers...🤦PeachNCream - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
Now I wonder if MSI's target market segment is dragons.mode_13h - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
> vapor chambers still do not make much senseThey make a lot of sense when you have hot spots, like both Intel and AMD are currently dealing with. I'm surprised they say it provides only a 20 W benefit.
> vs the much cheaper but just as thermally effective option of packing heatpipes side by side
Again, the issue there is with hotspots. The outside heatpipes don't do as much work as the others. This is probably the main advantage of using a vapor chamber, and it's probably an even bigger win on AM5.
meacupla - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
I hope to see a head-to-head between the DeepCool Assassin IV VC Vision and Noctua NH-D15 Gen2. Preferably with reference points to the normal Assassin IV, original D15, and a similarly priced 360mm/280mm CLC.mode_13h - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
+1Samus - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
The inclusion of a screen is a ridiculous expense. It looks cool but offers no real functionality over a light bar or even a multicolor LED. Surface temperature isn't an important metric anyway - core temperature is.Slash3 - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
It's a shame that these likely will never be sold in the US now.mode_13h - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
Why wouldn't it be sold in the USA?