European cooperation launches a CPU cooler concept

AFTER MAKING AN APPEARANCE at trade shows in the past two years, Akasa Revo is finally ready to go. This cooler is the product of cooperation between several companies located in the Eurozone, most notably Noise Limit, a small company in Denmark and Akasa in Blighty.

However, this time around the final product isn't coming to market from factories in China or Taipei. We have talked with Howard from Akasa and learned that Revo is made in France - making it possibly the only cooler for mainstream market manufactured in Eurozone, and pretty much anywhere else except Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan.

The reason for all the delays of this product was development path of chaotic liquid reaction, sorting out differences between simulation models and real-world prototypes, influenced by things such as gravity, angles and so on. This cooler utilizes a liquid-cooling setup in one, but this time around the pump is actually a passive one.

The technology is called SilentFlux, and it is nothing else but a bubble-pump, which works by putting liquid fluid in a state of aggressive chaos inside the main tank, and transporting the expanding gas into side-chamber, where it flows through 64 capillary tubes (eight large ones are split in smaller tubes). Total heat dissipation surface is 1400 cm2, and this is cooled by a slow-spinning fan.

Unlike regular heat-pipe concept, SilentFlux requires only 4mm wide tube for gas to become liquid - this part was engineered in Germany, in a company known for creating air-condition radiators for high performing cars.

What makes this product special is a possibility that Core 2 Duo processors or Athlons with 65W TDP could be cooled with just the passive element, no fan needed. Only requirement is that the case that cooler is located in has some sort of airflow. If your PSU has a 120mm fan, and you have an exhaust fan located behind the cooler, your 65W CPU should work happily.

The Primary strength of this concept is also ignorance to high-pitched coolers. After 2400 rpm, Revo stops caring what kind of wind is blowing, since this concept is primary pitched for silent PCs. It can dissipate up to 150 Watts, but it is most happy with 120W Quad-Cores. Overclocking potential exists, but if you want a silent and very powerful quad-core computer, this just might be the ticket.

Akasa Revo is available for 45 Euro or 30 quids and we will be bringing a review of this product end of next week. µ