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Articles: Coolers

Air-, Liquid- and Thermo-Electrical Cooling Technologies in One: CoolIT Freezone Review (page 3)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 08/24/2007 | 12:54 PM ]

Real-time Pricing and Availability:

Coolit Systems Freezone FZ-1000 Temperature Monitoring Device, CPU Cooling Kit Products

Amazon - $293.99

Design and Working Principles

Here it is, the CoolIT Freezone cooling system:

It doesn’t look like a CPU cooler at all. The system comes to you filled, assembled and ready to work. Looking under the decorative casing with a sticker, you can see the main components of the system as follows:

I’ll enumerate the components following the direction of heat flow (or from right to left): CPU water-block; pump; two heat-exchangers on both sides of the radiator that contact it via Peltier elements; radiator; 92mm fan.

The radiator is best visible in this view:

It is not a sophisticated thing. It is a square 122x65x90mm piece of anodized aluminum weighing 850g. It is heavy.

The radiator consists of aluminum plates with a thickness of about 1mm.

The plates are connected with each other by means of aluminum inserts, about 1.5mm thick, and contact them via a white-color thermal interface. You just can’t invent anything simpler than that.

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