Digital Storm Unveils Aventum With Custom Cryo-TEC Cooling

[herniter]

[citation][nom]airborne11b[/nom]Just went shopping on newegg, and for price of a "Level 1", you can get same Mobo/CPU/ram, a bigger PSU, same SSD, a blu-ray instead of crappy dvd drive, corsair 800D fulltower case and THREE 580 GTX 3GB models w/ watercooling block.Throw in a $300-$400 watercooling setup to cool all the GPUs and CPU and you got yourself a completely watercooled system that would perform at the same speeds of a "Digital storm lvl 4", for about half the price lol.Well, if you got the money and can't do the work yourself, sweet systems I guess lol.[/citation]

300-400$ watercooling setup? LOL.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]mightymaxio[/nom]lol show me where watercooling can achieve negative temperatures like their technology can and don't even mention Liquid Nitrogen since thats not even valid.[/citation]

Phase cooling. Ever rigged a refrigerator's or an air conditioning's system into a computer?

 

[Guest]

very nice case, however.. is this thing going to be outdated in 2 years?

 

[razor512]

there are cheaper ways to cool the components that will benefit from below 0 temperatures as well as have enough cooling for the passively cooled components. Furthermore, the system has a huge price markup but I am guessing that if you can afford to throw down that kind of money, then a price markup is not that big of a deal (eg people who buy $100,000 cars)

The system does not seem to be designed around silent operation (meaning the system may end being modded with a switch leading to the computer desk, and the actual PC it's self being placed into a actively air cooled server cabinet in order to cut down on the noise ((a server cabinet installed in wall with sound dampening insulation and proper duct work (also insulated) can significantly reduce noise)

(sound dampening server cabinet, installed into a wall with a crawl space, and additional insulated panels attacked to the sides and top, with slitted ducts on the sides to attack over the air intake and exhaust, then having air intake from within the house and probably have hot air vented outside of the house)

(If you can afford to buy an overpriced computer then you can afford to do a few high end modifications to the house)

 

[jankeke]

[citation][nom]airborne11b[/nom]Throw in a $300-$400 watercooling setup to cool all the GPUs and CPU [/citation]
I am building a WC loop for my future IB rig. Only the CPU, 1 GPU and the chipset will be WC. Beleive me, you can't do it for 400$ if you want something halfways good (especially with multiple GPUs).
Just the radiator and fans cost me 287 Euros. ^^

 

[airborne11b]

Well, in response to the WC comments,

1st of all, many people tend to over-kill their WC system for no good reason. Like 360 or 480 Rad just for a 1155 CPU LOLOL.

a single 360 or 480 rad is enough for 2-3 GPUs (It won't be ice cold, but it'd be cooler then air and decent room for OC at a reasonable price.

For a CPU water cooling loop, especially since 1155 chips OC over 4.5ghz on air, ANY watercooling system is pretty much overkill for a 4.5-5.0ghz OC. You can get a whole kit (CPU Block, 240 rad, pump, res, tubes, etc) for $120

So ya, maybe my estimate of $400 for 3x gpus and CPU is a bit on the low side. but no more then $150 on CPU, and no more then $400-$500 on GPU cooling and you got yourself a practical, solid rig. (Remember that my estimate included the fact that the water blocks came stock on the special EVGA boards). You'd need to spend an extra 300+ bucks on 3x GPU waterblocks if you needed to mod stock cards.

Or you can fork over the extra ******$3000***** to Digital Storm and they'll cool it a little better.... whatever.

However you try to spin it, doing it yourself is a lot cheaper then $3000+ dollars lol.

 

[jankeke]

airborne11b.
Of course it's always cheaper to do it yourself.
My loop will be around 500 Euros but in any case less than 600. With that I can add an extra GPU later without sinking too much money in it to uprgrade the loop (no new or extra rad, for example). But you are right, I will have a look at those EVGA hydro copper boards.

But this Aventum with Cryo-TEC cooling definitively is mouth-watering ... but well over my budget. ^^

 

[airborne11b]

[citation][nom]jankeke[/nom]airborne11b.Of course it's always cheaper to do it yourself.My loop will be around 500 Euros but in any case less than 600. With that I can add an extra GPU later without sinking too much money in it to uprgrade the loop (no new or extra rad, for example). But you are right, I will have a look at those EVGA hydro copper boards.But this Aventum with Cryo-TEC cooling definitively is mouth-watering ... but well over my budget. ^^[/citation]

Ya It's always cheaper to do it yourself, that's a given. And don't get me wrong, a company needs to make a profit. Just seems a bit steep to charge over $3000 for building fee and cooling system alone lol.

 

[brisssou]

I'm here for science, sorry for bumping the thread...