OCZ works to bring phase cooling to the masses (read 200USD)

[W1nTry]

I'm not sure what the power requirements on such apparatus is... but its pretty 'cool'

OCZ's sub-zero cooling chills X2 at 3.5GHz

Promising results

By Theo Valich: Tuesday 06 February 2007, 01:22
THE OCZ GUYS ARE slowly, but surely readying their phase-change cooling project, Cryo-Z. To be truthful on the subject, they did announce this a year ago and didn't come to market due to a management dream of sub-zero cooling for 200 dollars.

This proved to be a mission impossible at the time, but now the guys are almost ready with their project. One of very first samples is working nicely with both Intel and AMD platforms, since OCZ will be providing a universal mount (a nice innovation indeed). While talking with my old buddy Sean from Planetx64, we discussed the topic of Cryo-Z and we can now show you first preliminary scores from the unit.



Universal mount in action

For testing, following components were used:

DFI LANParty NF590 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 (stock speed: 2.6GHz)
2 GB Kingston HyperX PC2-9200 memories
SilverStone 850W PSU
ATIAMD Radeon X1900XTX


Keeping hot CPUs of today is no small feat... but we are really interested in what would happen with graphic cards...

While this 90nm Windsor core has proven to be not such a great overclocker, OCZ's Cryo-Z kept it stable at -22 degrees Celsius, and in the end, perfectly stable clock of 3.52 GHz (13x279.79). Memory was clocked to 502.9MHz DDR, keeping the latencies of 4-4-4-12. We're not certain why the CPU-Z Validator showed 4-4-0-12, but it did - just to disclose every bit of info. In the near future, we also plan to show you the preliminary Intel Kentsfield and AMD 65nm CPU clocks... and K10 core CPUs will pop up sooner or later in the year.


M'lud, we admit to using Photoshop to resize the picture and save it using the "Save for Web" feature

Now, there's been a flood of people on one irrelevant hardware forum which attacked my colleague from AMDZone over overclocking scores he achieved because he didn't "validate" his score. In order to end the debate which will probably rage after this post, we have provided you with both the validation picture and the l'Inq to the score.

If this baby ships at $199, it will be the ultimate cooling system for enthusiasts. If the system does not show up in retail, it was a great concept anyway. OCZ still has some quirks to fix on the system, and if they manage to ship it, it will be great. If those problems persist, company will continue to develop it until it's market-worthy. We can't wait to see it in our Croatian INQLab dungeon. µ

[Netizen1]

oh wow, I like this...

for US$200

an 'extreme' cooling solution

I can afford

* Netizen1 prepares to save for this