News Noctua's futuristic thermosiphon cooler is back and bigger than ever at Computex 2025, but still no closer to release

[Admin]

At Computex 2025, Noctua showed off its thermosiphon CPU cooler development project, now with a 360 mm cooler.

Noctua's futuristic thermosiphon cooler is back and bigger than ever at Computex 2025, but still no closer to release : Read more

 

[thestryker]

I'm curious if the rubberized tubing is actually rubber tubing or rubber over flexible metal. Everything I've seen like this that has either come to market or been shown in prototype/concept has used flexible metal tubing.

 

[abufrejoval]

I am growing ever more astonished at this fixation on CPU cooling, when that's becoming less and less of an issue.

With Rocket Lake long off the launchpad it's hard to see a reasonable CPU burn more than 100 Watts to make an RTX *90 sweat at proper resolutions and 4-8 times the heat output.

I love my Noctuas, mostly because they quietly prove that no water is required to keep things cool enough.

 

[Phatmista]

I'm more excited about the lack of a moving parts in a pump than noise; 90% of the liquid cooling solutions me and friends run have died from failed pumps.

EDIT & ADD: I would also be curious to see what type of liquid is being used and how it would react to electronics if/when spilled/leaked and how it would affect human skin.

 

[abufrejoval]

I wonder if pump failure was cause or effect (leakage or blockage caused by chemical reactions).

I'm inclined to think that managing the purely mechanical issues around the pump should be relatively easy, whilst the long-term chemical stuff is much harder to test in the short time engineers are given for validation.

I'm somewhat less concerned about direct health hazards, it's no longer freon cooling and I'm not into hugging my hardware (sorry, mostly fell for the cheap pleasure of sound of assimilation).

 

[Conor Stewart]

I am growing ever more astonished at this fixation on CPU cooling, when that's becoming less and less of an issue.

With Rocket Lake long off the launchpad it's hard to see a reasonable CPU burn more than 100 Watts to make an RTX *90 sweat at proper resolutions and 4-8 times the heat output.

I love my Noctuas, mostly because they quietly prove that no water is required to keep things cool enough.

So all people use PCs for is graphics intensive games?

If that was all the CPU performance that was required then people wouldn't have CPUs as powerful as they do. There are plenty of CPU intensive games and people use PCs for plenty other things that require good CPU performance.