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Title: DeepCool Adds Vapor Chamber to an Air Cooler: AIO-Like Performance at
Air Cooler Reliability

Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:00:00 EDT
Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21450/deepcool...

While the market for high-end CPU coolers has decidedly shifted towards
closed-loop all-in-one liquid coolers over the last several years, air
cooling remains alive and well. Even at the high-end, there are still further
improvements and innovations being made, such as DeepCool's vapor chamber-
based tower cooler, which was demonstrated at Computex.

Named the Assassin IV VC Vision, DeepCool's design is an advanced concept
vehicle that equips a tower cooled with both a vapor chamber in the base as
well as has an LCD pad on top for extra flourish. The vapor chamber is said
to increase the cooling capacity by 20W, adding a bit more of an edge to an
already very powerful tower cooler design.

While we expect this one to come to market eventually, don't be surprised if
both vapor chamber and the screen to land on other products together or
separately. For example, the massive DeepCool Assassin IV VC Vision has a
more compact brother that has a screen and a vapor chamber.

The unit builds on top of the already monstrous DeepCool Assassin IV that
comes with seven 0.6-mm heat pipes and can mount up to three 120/140mm fans,
depending on installation (one is magnetically attached). With a weight of
1.575 kilograms - almost entirely copper and aluminum - this one is already
good enough to cool down even the highest-performing CPUs.

DeepCool is currently trying to figure out recommended pricing for its
Assassin IV VC Vision cooler, but the original Assassin IV costs $99.99, so
expect the unit with a vapor chamber and a screen to build on top of that.

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