Asetek Unveils Liquid-Cooled Notebook Prototype
Asetek has modified an Alienware M18x gaming notebook with liquid cooling and, of course, an overclocked processor.
Instead of the standard heat pipes, the system combines liquid cooling and heat exchange to provide room for CPU overclocking.
The system uses a 2.5 GHz / 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7-2920XM processor that runs at 4.4 GHz. The two GPUs were overclocked from 680 to 800 MHz. Asetek claims that the overclocking resulted in an 18 percent performance improvement in 3D Mark 11, 16 percent in PCMark Vantage and 23 percent in 3D Mark Vantage.
There was no information if and when this cooling system might be available and how much the modification may cost. However, a base M18x laptop lists already for $2000 and will cost at least $3300 if configured with a 2.5 GHz i7 2860QM processor (the i7-2920XM is not available in Dell's charts) and dual AMD Radeon 6990M GPUs.
very nice, thank god someone is going thicker and heavier than thinner and lighter
run out of coolant? those are metal pipes, water is going to take a long time to evaporate.
some does but water doesn't. I don't know what they are using but i'd imagine it would be something that won't change it's state.
how is it a fraud? are they charging 700$ for a single gpu?
mobile=/=desktop
this is the best mobile they offer if memory serves.
so they gave it the highest number.
If someone can afford such a thing, he can probably also afford a more conventional laptop for daily unplugged use.
sidenote: battery life isn't as bad as you think, plugged in with discrete enabled it's about 2hrs, on integrated it's around 5hrs... although everything does underclock itself, but still not bad for a 20lb monstrosity.
It's a closed loop, you won't run out of coolant because it is not evaporating at an appreciable rate. Corsair's Hydro coolers are also closed loop, and don't run out of coolant either.
Think about it. If you fill a plastic bottle with water, would you expect to come back a year later and find an empty bottle? Of course not, you'd find it with pretty much the same level you left it at. I'd be surprised if you could measure the evaporation without some fairly sophisticated equipment.