Chip-Con Prometeia Cooling System

Introduction

Testing the limits of semiconductor technology is something most or at least some of us live for. That’s right folks, overclocking, a procedure started out by a few specialists’ users has turned out to be one of the biggest marketing selling points today.

As we go about reaching the limits of these hardware components, the biggest barrier everyone fails to fully overcome is “heat”. Heat is like one big fat bully who just doesn’t seem to go away easily. If you search around the web you’ll come across many projects where people have implemented some wacky setups to beat this heat issues. Some have even gone to the extent of submerging their whole system in liquid nitrogen. While these are really innovative ideas, they aren’t feasible to be implemented by (everyone) the less extreme users.

The easiest and cheapest form of cooling is provided by a heatsink and fan combo setup. While there are many impressive heatsink coolers out there, they aren’t able to really push the limits we would like to see. Watercooling is the next step above this. There are many watercooling setups out there in the market, and you can get a decent system for around AU$250-300. They’re not that hard to implement and by combining it with a good peltier will provide good overclocking freedom, even though the latest series of power hungry processors, has turned even that path into a very troublesome setup, necessitating excessively powerfull peltier elements, and even more heat production. However for extreme overclockers a setup of this nature still does not cut out as the best choice. For extreme overclocking we need to go into this new world of sub zero temperatures. This market is currently being dominated by a product called Vapochill. Vapochill systems are certainly very impressive; however there have been many known flaws in this system and installation of these units is far from easy or riskfree.

To compete in this exclusive market now comes a new Danish company called Chip-Con. Incorporated in late 2000, and actively marketing their product starting from May 2002, chip-con have been able to capture the European market like a storm. It’s nice to see new competitors in this market as there aren’t many who are willing to invest deeply in this kind of venture which is still in its formation stages. Chip-Cons main product is their Prometeia cooling system, which is claimed to be much superior to the famous solution Vapochill from Asetek systems.

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