14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like a certain, heavyweight cooling solution for high-end graphics adapters has just been officially introduced and made available for order, one whose maker goes by the name of EKL.
Some things on the consumer market often get more attention than others, but attention is, nonetheless, attention and, thus, beneficial for any company (unless it comes due to a scandal or whatnot, and sometimes not even then).
EKL will probably get a bit more of it than one might expect for what it just allowed online stores to start shipping.
Basically, the company delivered a new cooling solution which, instead of being meant for CPUs, is designed with the purpose of assisting high-end video controllers.
All graphics cards come with their own, default cooling modules, although default is used loosely.
Stock versions from AMD and NVIDIA have their expected, basic coolers, but manufacturing partners often go in different directions, with multi-fan solutions that have such things as direct touch heatpipes, so as to optimize heat dispersion.
Still, there are some high-quality video boards, like the AMD Radoen HD 6900 and some NVIDIA GeForce GTX 500 Series, which run hot regardless.
Ekl's Alpenfohn Peter is built in such a way as to cool off even capricious specimens like those, what with its copper base, no less than twelve 6mm nickel-plated copper heatpipes, many aluminum fins and a PCI bracket, the last element intended for adding two to four fans.
Depending on how many fans one decides upon, they can have diameters of 80 mm, 92 mm, 120 mm and even 140 mm.
All in all, the cooler measures 253.8 x 44 x 100 mm, weighs 590 grams and should be up for pre-order to roughly 55 Euro by such stores as this one.
It should probably be noted that this particular monster was seen some time ago, back in February actually. What remains is to see how many enthusiasts decide to put such a chunk piece of metal (and other materials) inside their systems.