Design and Features

Asetek VapoChill Micro boasts pretty original looks. Round heatsink sole made of solid copper ends with a semi-sphere. There is a thick pipe coming out of this semi-sphere, which distributes the heat into three 13mm-thick heatpipes via the horizontal pipe connecting all of them:

The cooler sole is a hollow chamber that serves as evaporation zone with pipes coming out of it. This allows Asetek VapoChill Micro cooler to get rid of a few bottlenecks that most of regular heatpipe cooling solutions have. Just take a look at the scheme we borrowed from the Asetek website:

The semi-spherical chamber and heatpipes are filled with low-boiling gas that performs the heat transfer efficiently. As I have already mentioned earlier, these are not quite the heatpipes, but thermal siphons. They work just like heatpipes do, however the circulation of the gas inside the system is based on gravity, and not on the capillary forces.

The heatpipes go through 54 aluminum plates, which offer slightly bigger heat dissipation area thanks to their wavy shape.

There is a transparent plastic casing that fits on top of the heatsink. Then you can use the plastic clips included with the cooler to fasten the fan on top of this casing:

Note that this casing is not fastened to the heatsink in any way. So, the casing as well as the fan sitting on top of it are not locked steadily on the cooler. as a result, you can notice some unpleasant vibrations and sounds during work at high fan rotation speed.