14 DAY TRIAL // The whole point of CeBIT was so that companies from around the world could come together and show each other off, or try to do so, with their hardware, and Gelid had some things of its own to display, a cooler being just one of them.
Although not as packed with new releases as previous editions, the 2011 CeBIT expo was not bereft of activity either.
In fact, IT players from various countries around the globe revealed many storage devices, particularly SSDs, as well as displays, tablets and many other things.
A fair chunk of those products have yet to actually become available, but their makers were, at the very least, able to grab end-user attention.
Gelid is one of the IT companies that saw to the cooling market, as well as the segment of PC cases.
The folks over at ExtraHardware are the ones got close enough to its high-end air cooler to snag a few photos of it and learn of its specs.
Apparently, it has a very high degree of compatibility, being usable on both Intel and AMD central processing units.
To be more specific, Intel LGA 1156, LGA 1155, LGA 1366 and LGA 775 CPUs are supported, as are AM2, AM2+ and AM3 chips from Advanced Micro Devices.
Dubbed GX-7, it boasts a tower design, with a copper base that draws heat out of the chip itself and sends it into the 46 aluminum fins through seven copper heatpipes.
A single Wing 12 fan, with a diameter of 120mm, actually disperses that heat, the air flow quite strong thanks to the rotary speed of 1,500 RPM (rotations per minute).
Regrettably, the GX-7 is not yet ready to ship. A time frame should become known during the second quarter of the ongoing year, 2011. The price isn't known either.