News XPG's hybrid dual-fan CPU cooler features an integrated pump, loop, and radiator — XPG Hybrid Cooler claims it can cool CPUs up to 280W

[Admin]

PC gaming brand XPG has showcased a new CPU cooler that shrinks an all-in-one design into the size of a regular heatpipe tower design, but we wonder if it will offer the best of both worlds.

XPG's hybrid dual-fan CPU cooler features an integrated pump, loop, and radiator — XPG Hybrid Cooler claims it can cool CPUs up to 280W : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

kind of better off with a large heatsink (last forever) or an actual 360+ aio at that point.

 

[Amdlova]

I have here a tuniq tower 120 have 17 year and still working... some one has a watercooler still working on last 17 years?

 

[thestryker]

I'm not totally sure who this is for because it's too big for SFF and isn't as good as an AIO but carries the same hardware failure problem. I do like that they say it's lighter than big dual tower coolers as those are all tipping the scales at ~1100-1600g, but how much lighter who knows. Now it does look completely self contained so permeation shouldn't really be an issue, but pump failure is still a thing. Unless they plan on selling replacement pumps at a reasonable price I'm just not seeing the advantage over going AIO or big air.

 

[razor512]

Seems like a waste, as you are having the worst of both worlds. The size constraints of a tower cooler + the failure points of a liquid cooler. While a liquid cooling loop + radiator makes more efficient use of the surface area of the fins, Making it all in a small size, throws away many of the benefits. At a small size, a CLC is not very efficient in terms of space used, but at a larger size, the space efficiency increases. For example, if you look at some of the older CLCs when they would have a wider ranges of sizes, such as an 80mm, 120mmm, 140mm, 240mm, and 280mm radiator, often the waterblock and pump would be the exact same, thus as the radiator size increased, the space taken up by the pump and waterblock becomes a smaller percentage of the overall space usage.

That device would be better if it were expandable, e.g., connectors on the top half to add in an additional 120mm radiator with a lower fin density for use with the exhaust fan on the case.

 

[jlake3]

More efficient than an air cooler?

While I suppose you might be able to disburse heat around a well designed radiator more evenly than heat pipes can conduct heat out to the edges of a tower cooler, at the end of the day you can only fit so much surface area into in that 120mm square, 25mm deep radiator before it becomes too restrictive.

I've got a 92mm tower cooler on my PC, and it's got what looks like 50mm deep fins. That gives it ~18% more volume than this that a designer could use for either more fins at the same density, or the same amount of fins with less restriction. And this thing is probably going up against 120mm or 140mm tower coolers instead that are even bigger. Even if it does dissipate more heat per cubic centimeter, it just doesn't seem like it's big enough.

Rather than more efficient at the same size, when I think of AIOs I think of moving the heat somewhere else so that you can then throw more flow and more surface area at the problem than a socket mounted cooler would allow. This totally negates that.

This just feels like a 120mm tower cooler with more cost and failure points.