News New GPU coolers bring swappable AIO features to custom loops — promises radical cooling improvements that you can use for multiple GPU generations

[Admin]

We met with LYNK+ at CES 2024 to check out their prototype RTX 4090 and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards with custom AIO liquid cooling solutions. The hope is to partner with AIB companies and provide off-the-shelf liquid cooled GPUs with superior performance, for about the same price as closed loop AIO coolers.

New GPU coolers bring swappable AIO features to custom loops — promises radical cooling improvements that you can use for multiple GPU generations : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

The hope is to partner with AIB companies and provide off-the-shelf liquid cooled GPUs with superior performance, for about the same price as closed loop AIO coolers.

While I approve of the idea....this might be rough given you would be cutting into most aib's own aio's (which they'd make more profit off of)

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

While I approve of the idea....this might be rough given you would be cutting into most aib's own aio's (which they'd make more profit off of)

Yes. I know what Lynk+ says it wants to do, but we'll see if it can actually make any of this happen. I've updated the text to note that they may (their words) bring kits to market where users would do the GPU swap on their own. That would ultimately be the same as what EKWB and others are already doing, just with different connectors and other elements.

 

[TechLurker]

Eh, I'm more surprised Alphacool isn't pushing something like this harder, given that they already make expandable AIOs with the Eisbaer line and were a popular means of getting into liquid cooling via their QDCs allowing for plugging in a GPU or CPU later, or even swapping out GPUs.

 

[DavidLejdar]

Yes. I know what Lynk+ says it wants to do, but we'll see if it can actually make any of this happen. I've updated the text to note that they may (their words) bring kits to market where users would do the GPU swap on their own. That would ultimately be the same as what EKWB and others are already doing, just with different connectors and other elements.

Yeah, would be a lot about pricing and benchmark comparison then, with products such as Alphacool's Eiswolf 2 AiO e.g. for RTX 4090*.

For me it would be more of an option, than some 50% surcharge i.e. for ASRock RX 7900 XTX Aqua OC, or a locked AiO solution.

And there technically is also the option i.e. for LYNK+ to customize GPUs in-house, and sell it i.a. via vendors. It would make such cooling solution more accessible. That would require some investment for the company to have the GPUs for offer though.

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https://www.caseking.de/en/alphacoo...tx-4090-reference-mit-backplate-wach-795.html

Eh, I'm more surprised Alphacool isn't pushing something like this harder, given that they already make expandable AIOs with the Eisbaer line and were a popular means of getting into liquid cooling via their QDCs allowing for plugging in a GPU or CPU later, or even swapping out GPUs.

Alphacool's Eiswolf 2 line-up would be a direct competitor apparently, in regard to custom kits. But yeah, still some room for more convenient cooling solutions. And some market demand is arguably there, when the stock GPU cooling is moving towards making as much noise as a passing truck does.

 

[thestryker]

Roman (Der8auer) had some time with one of these back at I think Computex and it seems like a really cool product if you could guarantee multiple generations worth of video card support. This seems like a long shot without some kind of major industry buy in sadly. The other problem of course being the used market or moving to another machine where you'd end up having to buy another pump/rad system due to the proprietary connector.

I'm not sure the potential expandability is a big benefit given how much power modern CPUs (Zen 4 X3D being an exception) and GPUs are using. Adding rads is going to be rather expensive plus you have the pump to deal with so I just don't know about that aspect. You can currently reuse a CPU AIO, but you can't GPU that's the advantage I see.

While I approve of the idea....this might be rough given you would be cutting into most aib's own aio's (which they'd make more profit off of)

If you're talking about the GPU AIOs none of the AIBs actually make their own they all just use Asetek models aside from things like the recent Asus Matrix. I assume these would be priced similarly to how current AIB cards with AIO or block pre-installed are.

 

[Phaaze88]

Get a load of this:
-rear fan intake.
-cpu AIO exhaust?[Really hard to tell from the video, but it looks like exhaust to me.]
-gpu AIO exhaust.
-inside an H7 Flow, from the looks of it.
I know it's a display for CES, but my OCD is triggered. The cooler might've yielded even better results if the gpu AIO's fans were flipped... OR swap the rad locations and set the cpu AIO fans to intake, and leave the rear fan as is.

Oh well, not the first time seeing things like that.