The Source schrijft dat ome Tom een preview in elkaar heeft geknutseld over de Vapochill socket van Asetek. De Vapochill socket is zoals de naam aangeeft geschikt voor socket processoren van AMD en Intel en beloofd de temperatuur van je CPU flink onder het nul punt te brengen (-20 tot -10 graden). Volgens Asetek is dat goed voor een overclock van 30% tot 60%. Een klein nadeel is de prijs die met 650 doller aka 1600 nederlandse florijnen wel een redelijk gat in je portemonnee slaat, maar dat is nog steeds een stuk goedkoper dan een Kryotech systeem :
The most important thing to the majority of you will obviously be the temperature that VapoChill can reach. Andre told me that -19°C (-2°F) are the lowest CPU temperature possible for VapoChill, but he ensured me that his baby can reach the same CPU frequencies that Kryotech is able to reach with their -50°C (-58°F) solution. Of course, that remains to be seen for the time being.
Limiting VapoChill to -19°C (-2°F) cooling enables the usage of a significantly smaller and lighter compressor that is less noisy and wastes less energy than a compressor that goes down to -50°C (-58°F). It also keeps the costs down. As long as the processor clock speeds reached by VapoChill are indeed identical to those of Kryotech's solution, a smaller, lighter, quieter and cheaper system is obviously of significant advantage. Asetek speaks of 30-60% possible CPU clock speed increase. Andre doesn't like the term 'overclocking', but speaks of 'thermic acceleration'.
[...] For the $650 of suggested retail price the VapoChill offers a very professional cooling solution for the crazy ones of us, who think that overclocking has still got a bright future, and it's got to really, doesn't it? It also might well be the default cooling solution of future processors.