14 DAY TRIAL // Liquid cooling is quite popular among enthusiasts with cash, especially when said enthusiasts already have one of those dual-GPU, overpowered graphics adapters, or the best Intel/AMD processor on the market.
Apistek knows where the money is, even though it is a young company. The Chinese manufacturer has introduced a huge, full-cover water block for AMD's Radeon HD 7990.
Said water block uses two copper+acetal GPU blocks, not just one, coolant tubing in serial mode, and a heatspreader that drags the heat out of the memory chips on the reverse side of the PCB.
The heatspreader also pulls heat from the VRM (voltage regulation module).
One might notice that the design is inspired from one that TUL Corporation has used in the past.
Sadly, the folks at Hermitage Akihabara didn't exactly say how the item compares to air-based coolers, or other liquid cooling modules.
We imagine it has a significant advantage though, at least in most cases. If so, Apistek may finally be catching a break.
The Chinese company, which was founded back in 2011, has actually been looking for distributors to global markets.
Computex 2013, taking place in Taipei, Taiwan (June 4-8), may finally give a favorable end to its quest.
In addition to the AMD Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics card cooler, Apistek revealed a pair of cylindrical tower-type radiators for liquid cooling systems.
They were inspired by Zalman Reserator (which was very briefly available back in 2005) and combines the pump, reservoir and radiator into a single device that needs no fans to keep the water, or coolant, cold.
A desktop variant is 370 mm-tall (and does have mounting space for four 120 mm fans, if one really wants them), but Apistek also showed off a 592 mm pedestal version. Both have independent AC power input and coolant pressure adjustment.
