Sapphire cools graphic card with liquid metal

Sapphire has at several occations launched cards with efficient cooling with low level of noice. But back then it has always been special heatsinks and similar that has been used but now they’ve taken one step further. They’ve namely launched the first graphic card cooled with liquid metal. We’ve earlier heard rumours about this but now officila information from Sapphire themselves has arrived.

 

The first graphic card to use cooling with liquid metal will be called Sapphire Radeon X850XT PE Blizzard and according to Sapphire the new technology will be up to 65 times more efficient to transfer heat than watercooling and that is without any moving parts. The new cooler will result in 10 degrees lower temperature than Sapphire’s own Artic Cooling solution and at 25% less noice than ATI’s stock cooling.

The technology that Sapphire’s Blizzard card uses comes from NanoCoolers and uses a system similar to heatpipes. The liquid metal flows through channels from the heatsource, e.g. the graphic circuit, to a heatsink where it is cooled of with the help of a fan. The metal passes through the system with the help of an electromagnetic pump which is completely quiet.

So far we haven’t seen any information regarding the price for Sapphire’s Blizzard cards but we are really looking forward to the development of liquid metal. Especially as NanoCoolers also is working on a processor cooler for laptops among others.

Source: Sapphire