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Arctic shows semi-passive Freezer 50 TR cooler for AMD Threadripper
Yeah, semi-passive. Arctic has been showing a new prototype CPU cooler for AMD's Threadripper processors. The cooler rather ginormous and named 'Freezer 50 TR". Arctic claims it should be able to passively cool a Threadripper-CPU under low load.
The wording semi-passive thus is rather misleading, as under load the fans simple kick in and the product will behave like a normal cair based heat pipe cooler. The Freezer 50 TR has two aluminum cooling blocks, each with eight heatpipes in direct contact with the processor.
The cooler can hold two fans (we assume 140 mm. Of course, there's some colorful RGB stuff going on as well. Price and availability have not been mentioned, obviously as it is a prototype.
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#5644148 Posted on: 02/26/2019 10:00 AM
Corsair also has done something like this semi-passive marketing recently. I don't get it. Cannot all PWM fans be stopped under certain signal anyway? How is this valid from a marketing point of view?
Corsair also has done something like this semi-passive marketing recently. I don't get it. Cannot all PWM fans be stopped under certain signal anyway? How is this valid from a marketing point of view?
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#5644151 Posted on: 02/26/2019 10:08 AM
It's valuable and marketable to people who don't know that one can set fans (on CPU coolers) up like this themselves. They just read that this thing works without a fan spinning (under certain conditions), think it's cool, and buy this hardware.
Corsair also has done something like this semi-passive marketing recently. I don't get it. Cannot all PWM fans be stopped under certain signal anyway? How is this valid from a marketing point of view?
It's valuable and marketable to people who don't know that one can set fans (on CPU coolers) up like this themselves. They just read that this thing works without a fan spinning (under certain conditions), think it's cool, and buy this hardware.
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Well we all know what it really means, "sometimes passive" (ie. when the heat is low). A lot of things do that these days, PSUs, Graphics Cards, just CPU coolers were typically exempt, since most of them just run off of MB PWM signals, which don't go "off".