Tt Volcano 4005 --- Merge Heat-pipe with WC'ing

stev · Post by **stev** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:49 am

Now this is a strange but rather neat product!

What do you get when you merge a heat-pipe with WC'ing?

A Volcano!

Take a look here:
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product/L ... -w0037.asp

There was a spy photo of this product when CES 2006 was going on, however, not much was clearly defined back then.

Anyone have comments about it?

Stev

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:22 pm

uh yeah interesting... I like the part where it says "Upgrade water block to Heat Exchanger". I don't believe that would be an upgrade.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:11 pm

Not on any of my systems thank you.............

T-Shirt · Post by **T-Shirt** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:40 pm

I don't see any "heatpipe" there, looks like a small diameter W/C system with the radiator strapped/mounted on top.
if you're going to water cool why not put the rad where you can blow the heat out of the case?
also seems like alot of weight (874g

) hanging on the MB.

stev · Post by **stev** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:25 am

T-Shirt,

I agree with you on all your points! The funny thing is, the heat-pipe people are slowly moving towards liquid-cooling. Why? It's possible that their heat-pipe technology is reaching the cooling limits that it's capable of. That's the thought I got out of it anyways.

It seems that Tt had the wicking material removed in the copper tubes and used the same construction (tooling) principals that is currently used for heat-pipes.

If you notice in the product link at the bottom, there is a review done by a UK site. It's only interesting for the results. By no means is it a Lee "ROBOTech" Garbutt in-depth review at all, but it does shed some lite data about the product.

Stev