News - Danamics gives up on LM10 cooler, focussing on other liquid-metal products ins

[HEXUS]

Danamics' £235 liquid metal-based CPU cooler has been discontinued, but the Danish manufacturer it isn't giving up all hope yet.

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[LuckyNV]

I forsee the geekiest "fail" pic right there

on the other hand, I have silent hope for Dana to come up with something very powerful yet not quite so expensive.

[MadduckUK]

According to Danamics, the LM10 (pictured above) was meant to be just a limited-edition product and sales are therefore at an end.

With the ill-fated LM10 behind us

one or the other please guys, its either been canned because they didnt sell enough, or they sold them all...

[shaithis]

Hopefully they will come up with something.......sellable next time.

[drunkenmaster]

It was canned because it cost £200+ and didn't outperform a £35 Thermalright TRUE.

Which was to be expected. Watercooling and the likes increase cooling by increasing the available surface area available for the heat to be dumped into the air. Every cooling system eventually relies on the transfer of heat from the heatsink/radiator part to the air. It doens't make "much" difference how efficiently you get the heat from source to the radiator, just that it gets there, what makes ALL the difference is the surface area of the radiator. In this case, the sink was always about the size of a TRUE, but had the added heat generated by the magnetic pump, the heat from which had no place else to go. INcreasing heatload with the same surface area is never ever going to increase performance, its literally impossible.

Whoever came up with the idea will hopefully be fired, and probably tarred and feathered, then the management guy who remotely believed the impossible design ambitions should be left alone, he's sure to feature in the Darwin Awards soon enough.

[Main]

I'm not at all suprised, especially as the last attempt at a liquid metal cooler (the original Sapphire 'Blizzard' card) never even made it to production.

[Webby]

As we all said when it was first announced and then again when we saw the test results, it was never going to out perform a watercooling system (well at least not a well designed one costing £200+)

I hope they do design some more but they really need to do one of two things my first thought would be to effectively make a liquid cooled 120mm radiator system with flexible tubing to connect the rad and CPU block. The other idea would be to Introduce a radiator style cooler rather than a conventional air cooler tower design, you do not need big fat pipes to transfer heat when you are using a high heat capacity fluid so 10 thin tubes with folded copper fins (effectively the design of a watercooling radiator) between make the core ~35mm thick and you will have something that will probably out perform all other air cooler on the market but will still be limited against water coolers as the surface area will just not be there.

To make this work they need to optimise the transfer of heat from fin to air and also from fluid to fin having your pipes at each end of a single long fin means that the central section of the fin takes a long time to get any heat and is effectively wasted surface area. To make the product viable it needs to do what heatpipe coolers cant which is spread the heat across a whole cooler without reducing airflow so significantly that it destroys all heat transfer.

Anyway just my two pence I'll now go back to forgetting that cooler ever existed