14 DAY TRIAL // While some might think that those massive CPU coolers on sale are impressive, Novel claims that it has developed something that can trounce their performance while being thinner than a credit card.
With all the IT players out and about, showing this or that invention, truly unique or revolutionary projects get quite a bit of attention, even if just on the principle that they use a method not done before.
Novel Concepts, Inc. claims to have developed a cooling product that stands out from all others thanks to its incredibly thin construction and cooling efficiency.
What the company created is a not so little convection heatsink appropriately named ThinSink, what with its thickness of just 0.75mm.
Yes, apparently, this newcomer is thinner than pretty much anything people have in their wallets nowadays, except banknotes.
The company used, as an example, a credit card-sized ThinSink (85 mm by 55 mm by 0.75 mm) which has a thermal performance of 2.73 degrees Centigrade per Watt.
The aluminum heatsink basically draws heat and spreads it away, while a 40mm fan disperses it thanks to its rotary speed of 6,000 RPM (rotations per minute).
What's more, the fan surface is smooth, so the pulsating sound and vibration that fan blades usually produce is absent, according to the company.
Of course, the fan can operate at different speeds as well, of 2,000 RPM and 10,000 RPM, and the power needed will never exceed 0.101 watts.
Novel says that the ThinSink can be given “almost any shape” and should have no problems cooling chips, LEDs and other hot components used in monitors, notebooks and tablets.
All in all, its volumetric cooling efficiency is said to be about 25 times better than the best CPU heatsinks of today (it handles 25 times more heat per cubic centimeter).