Sapphire Blizard

[Counter Terrorist Zombie]

Has anyone else heard of it???

Worlds First LIQUID METAL Cooled Graphics Card!

Turning the Ordinary Into Extraordinary!

Sapphire Technology Limited, the leading supplier of ATI-powered graphics solutions, has just

announced a revolutionary new cooling system on its latest family of high end graphics cards –

another industry first for Sapphire using an exciting new technology – Liquid Metal Cooling.

Liquid Metal Cooling!

Built upon a liquid metal technology that is 65 times more thermally conductive than water and

requires no moving parts, the new Blizzard range is equipped with the definitive long term cooling

solution for the demanding enthusiast. Liquid Metal is non-toxic, non-flammable, and completely

environmentally safe. Sapphire’s exciting new cooler is a compact, low-profile design using only

one additional PC slot. Filled and sealed, it requires no user intervention, no reservoir or refilling and

it is card resident so it requires no additional mounting space. The revolutionary use of an

electromagnetic pump means no internal moving parts, low power consumption and delivers near

silent operation!

 

[llwyd]

Mercury is meant to be tip-top for cooling apart fromt he fact that its highly toxic lol

 

[Raven]

Mercury..............fact that its highly toxic lol

llwyd, the liquid metal isnt mercury, dont know what it is but the metal is harmless im most ways.

its most likely a mixture of several different metals.

 

[blackrain]

could be a sodium compound they use it in nuclear power plants for cooling also in cars

 

[blackrain]

did a bit of research.... if you dope alloys with gallium you get low melting alloys, gallium alloys are used in thermometers these days instead of the highly toxic mercury. elemental gallium also melts at 29 degrees celcius

 

[llwyd]

llwyd, the liquid metal isnt mercury, dont know what it is but the metal is harmless im most ways.

its most likely a mixture of several different metals.

i know

 

[FragTek]

eVGA also had a cooler like this, it was on the 7800GTX I believe....

 

[MeltedDuron]

yeah its gallium and some other stuff alright, I think its just a bit too viscous to be used as a coolant though. if they are using it as TIM then thats not a great idea either, as liquid metal TIM is not much better than ceramique or AS5, and even weirder than AS5, also there is the small fact that some of the liquid metal TIM's eat through aluminum...

 

[.sentinel]

If I am not mistaken they discontinued this cooler. I remember hearing about that abourt 5 months ago.

 

[WC Annihilus]

Last time I knew the Blizzard was a water cooler modeled after TT's Tidewater for the x1900XTX. However, they ended up changing the name to Toxic

 

[blackrain]

If I am not mistaken they discontinued this cooler. I remember hearing about that abourt 5 months ago.

thats what i heard too

 

[browney]

If I am not mistaken they discontinued this cooler. I remember hearing about that abourt 5 months ago.

Yes i read about it when i got my X800 pro and that was last year

 

[Nagaru]

I don't know why they would even think of using metal. Water makes an amazing coolant, due to its extremely high thermal capacity. Metal could never match water.

 

[NoL]

Not true nagaru, simply not true. Water is great and all, but there are much better conductors.

 

[NickS]

Like metal. Water does have a very high specific heat though.

 

[NoL]

High specific heat only means it takes alot more heat to heat it up, which is not necesarily a good thing. Also things like hydrogen bonds and polarity dont matter until you start evaporating water.

 

[Nagaru]

High specific heat only means it takes alot more heat to heat it up, which is not necesarily a good thing. Also things like hydrogen bonds and polarity dont matter until you start evaporating water.

A quote from the Wikipedia

"Heat capacity and heat of vaporization

Water also has the next highest specific heat capacity of any known chemical compound, to ammonia, as well as a high heat of vaporization (40.65 kJ/mol), both due to the extensive hydrogen bonding between its molecules. These two unusual properties allow water to moderate Earth's climate by buffering large swings in temperature."

 

[NoL]

Right so it can absorb alot of heat and evaporate to remove it, but the high specific heat means its not the best carrier of heat (pickup then drop).

Your still using data that is in terms of evaporation.

 

[Nagaru]

Right so it can absorb alot of heat and evaporate to remove it, but the high specific heat means its not the best carrier of heat (pickup then drop).

Your still using data that is in terms of evaporation.

This is not in terms of evaporation, in terms of "evaporation" water is still amazing but specific heat or thermal capacity does not refer to that. Specific heat is defined as "Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat (Symbol: C or c) is the measure of the heat energy required to raise the temperature of a specific quantity of a substance (thus, the name “specific” heat) by certain amount, usually one kelvin."

The latent heat of vaporization refers to how much energy is required to vaporize a specific amount of a substance. Really the term evaporate is a misnomer as in chemistry it refers to molecules escaping, below the boiling point of a substance.

 

[skooly]

wouldn't a liquid metal be a better coollent becuse it has a better condutivity then water so it can absorbe and dispale heat fast then water?

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