Asetek punts liquid cooling for laptops

PC Advisor reports.

Air fans cool most laptops today, but the heat they generate has been increasing as computers become faster. Fans are also spinning faster to dissipate heat, making laptops noisier.

The fundamental challenge in cooling desktop replacement laptops and all-in-one PCs is the lack of space for a proper thermal solution, Xbit Laboratories writes.

As a result, previous attempts at liquid cooling laptops have offered no performance improvement over traditional heat-pipe-based heat sinks.

Asetek has designed a sealed combo liquid cooling solution that concurrently cools down central processing units, graphics processing units and simultaneously uses all cooling modules available in particular notebooks.

Bit-Tech reports that the company used an Alienware M18x laptop fitted to demonstrate its new cooling system.

Using the new liquid cooling system, Asetek was able to boost the peak clock speed of the Core i7 processor from 3.5GHz to 4.4GHz, while the GPUs were boosted from 680MHz to 800MHz.

These speeds, Asetek claims, were simply not possible using the Alienware M18x's traditional cooling system.