Asetek Solution Provides Total Liquid Cooling for the HP Firebird's CPU, Chipset, and Two MXM Graphics Cards
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SAN JOSE, Calf. January 8, 2009 – Asetek announced today that its industry-leading liquid cooling solution has been selected by Hewlett Packard for use in its innovative, compact HP Firebird 803 Tower with Voodoo DNA. By using Asetek technology to cool all major components — CPU, Chipset, and two MXM graphic cards — HP was able to pack a lot of performance into a small footprint package while achieving a unique deadly silent, high performance, and energy efficient system.
"Enthusiasts and power users no longer need to tolerate the annoying noise common in high performance systems," said Jim Handy, Chief Analyst at Objective Analysis. "This high growth market segment is demanding ever increasing performance in dramatically smaller form factors at little to no noise. This complicates thermal management and is driving major OEMs to adopt liquid cooling as a solution to the thermal dilemma."
Enthusiasts need extreme performance in a quiet machine that takes less space. Packing a lot of CPU and graphics power into a smaller unit demands a solution for efficiently moving heat out of the system without noise that can adversely affect the computing experience. HP Blackbird proved Asetek's ability to deliver a robust OEM thermal solution. HP and Asetek collaborated to extend the solution to cool additional major components and craft a solution for Firebird that delivers low noise and high performance in a substantially smaller chassis.
Seen by many as the "little brother" to the full-sized HP Blackbird 002 gaming system, the compact Firebird 803 packs outstanding gaming and graphics performance into a much smaller footprint while providing very low acoustic noise. The HP Firebird 803 uses liquid cooling to chill all major components of the system including the Intel® Core 2 Quad Processor, dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800S small form factor graphics cards in SLI configuration, and the system logic chipset.
"We are pleased that Hewlett Packard once again selected Asetek as their partner to create the liquid cooling solution for this new and unique system," says Gary Baum, Asetek's Senior VP of Marketing and Sales. "The compact Firebird 803 was designed to meet the needs of end users demanding high performance systems in a substantially smaller, whisper-quiet system. Liquid cooling makes this possible."
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About Asetek
Founded in 2000, Asetek is the world leading system thermal and acoustic management solution provider. Specialized designs incorporating liquid-cooling, vapor phase or vapor chamber technologies are utilized in providing OEM design solutions. These solutions are designed for applications where end-users demand exceptional performance, low noise and maximum reliability. Asetek's strong brand name products such as VapoChill® and WaterChill™ are often the favorite choice of enthusiast grade cooling solutions having obtained more than 200 international press awards in the past decade.
Asetek is headquartered in Denmark with offices in San Jose, California and Asia. Asetek works actively with leading-edge companies within the industry to ensure cost effective thermal performance, low acoustic noise and system reliability is achieved. For more information, please visit http://www.asetek.com.
