News Cryorig launches its largest dual-tower CPU air cooler yet — Monster XX features 300W TDP capacity, ten heat pipes, and dual 120mm fans

[Admin]

Cryorig launches its largest air cooler, with a 300-watt capacity, to accommodate the latest, most potent processors from Intel and AMD.

Cryorig launches its largest dual-tower CPU air cooler yet — Monster XX features 300W TDP capacity, ten heat pipes, and dual 120mm fans : Read more

 

[Notton]

10 heatpipes is impressive but I doubt they all get full use on smaller dies without a vapor chamber to distribute the heat.

 

[80251]

@Notton
No one manufactures dual tower heatpipe coolers w/integral vapor chambers yet do they? I've noticed the 4090 uses both heatpipes and a vapor chamber, so is this the immediate future of high end air cooling?

 

[thestryker]

There have been a few vapor chamber designs over the years. The most recent two being from Deepcool and Cooler Master. Deepcool (the company) got removed from the US market and there hasn't been any news since. The V8 3DVC was shown at CES in January, but no product has come to market.

With the shrinking die size and offset CPU cores vapor chamber coolers make more sense now than previously. They have a bigger impact if they're directly mounted to the die which is likely why we haven't seen much adoption outside of video cards though.

 

[halfcharlie]

My Silverstone 360 AIO started failing in more ways than one (multiple fans dying, water pump, air pockets, who knows what else if I opened it up) and causing overheating issues, I needed something to keep me going until upgrade build so I got a Peerless Assassin, it's so crazy cheap and straight away dropped 20C from my temps. Boy is it loud though, I can hear every change in RPM, I won't be staying with air personally but I understand the reliability and simplicity. Lesson is not to cheap out on an AIO and pay attention to warranty, there's a reason Silverstone only has a 2 year warranty, I'll be getting the Liquid Freezer III 360 for next build.

 

[Notton]

@Notton
No one manufactures dual tower heatpipe coolers w/integral vapor chambers yet do they? I've noticed the 4090 uses both heatpipes and a vapor chamber, so is this the immediate future of high end air cooling?

Yup, no one makes VC desktop CPU coolers yet, but they exist for laptops. For desktop, only some prototypes shown this year.
Yup, it's the future of air cooling.
The only alternative I see is the active-noise-cancelling gizmo prototype Noctua made from over a decade ago. and no one else followed through with this idea.

 

[TheHerald]

10 heatpipes is impressive but I doubt they all get full use on smaller dies without a vapor chamber to distribute the heat.

10 heatpipes are useless, they actually hurt performance. Despite the obvious contact issues, if your CPU doesn't produce a lot of heat to actually put these heatpipes to work the phase change will be a lot slower and therefore temps will be worse compared to a 6 heatpipe cooler. Air cooling isn't as simple as "slap as many heatpipes as possible and call it a day"

 

[tamalero]

My Silverstone 360 AIO started failing in more ways than one (multiple fans dying, water pump, air pockets, who knows what else if I opened it up) and causing overheating issues, I needed something to keep me going until upgrade build so I got a Peerless Assassin, it's so crazy cheap and straight away dropped 20C from my temps. Boy is it loud though, I can hear every change in RPM, I won't be staying with air personally but I understand the reliability and simplicity. Lesson is not to cheap out on an AIO and pay attention to warranty, there's a reason Silverstone only has a 2 year warranty, I'll be getting the Liquid Freezer III 360 for next build.

Cant replace the fans for noctuas?