 Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom Glass. Visit store.phantom.glass for the best darn screen protectors out there, as well as HyperX. Kicking things off in the Cooler Master suite, we've got, well, cooling technology. How very unexpected. This is something that they're calling 3D vapor chambers. Now, it's not the first time that we've seen Cooler Master throw vapor chambers onto a CPU. Cooler vapor chambers, actually you can learn more about them here. We've done an entire episode of our Fast As Possible segment on them, but basically they are usually flat. Now, 3D vapor chambers are not flat. In fact, they are three-dimensional. What they've done is they've tacked on what appear to be normal heat pipes, but instead of just having heat pipes soldered to the top of a vapor chamber that then makes contact with the CPU for optimal heat spreading, here they have actually integrated the heat pipe structure into the vapor chamber. So, unfortunately, we don't have any live demos running yet, but we do have a very early prototype of one that has both the traditional heat pipes on top of a vapor chamber design, as well as 3D vapor chambers running up through the heat sink fins, and we can be expecting to see a little bit more about this technology around the Computex time frame. But the really revolutionary technology, in that it spins, see? Haha, it's a joke. It's a joke about cooling, is right here, and this is from a partner of Cooler Masters called Coolchip. These guys are showing off a completely different way of cooling CPUs. Now, at first glance, this might not really look like anything special, okay? It's got a flat surface on the bottom, that's what you stick on top of the CPU, GPU, or your forehead, or whatever else it is that you need to keep cool, and then it's got some fins on the top that are, you know, well-spaced for dissipating heat. And then normally, you would throw a fan that's usually about the same thickness as the heat sink itself to go ahead and blow air down on that bad boy and remove it from the metal. But no, this works completely differently. What it actually does is it spins the top, there we go, let's just take this thing apart, it spins the top of two plates around, and that is what generates the airflow that cools the metal. So we don't actually need a fan anymore at all, and you're kind of probably looking at me going, well, hold on a second Linus, how the heck does that work? I mean, if these two plates aren't connected to each other, then how are you even going to transfer the heat to it? That sounds completely inefficient. Well, actually, hold on a second, no, because with precise enough manufacturing, they can actually make these interlocking grooves between these plates be so close to each other that even as they're spinning around, heat transfer is basically unimpeded. Now, this isn't the first time that I've heard of this technology, although I have to admit, you know, with my skepticism hat on, I wasn't convinced necessarily that it was ever going to make it to a cost-effective sort of retail type product because the Sandia Cooler YouTube video that has over a half a million views has been out there for a couple years now, but this is the first time I've seen it actually working, and they do have it actually working. So that one doesn't work, that one you can take apart just for demos, but normally, they would actually be fixed in place so that even dropping the unit wouldn't cause it to not continue to function correctly. So here they've got a prototype, this is attached to a piece of plexi, I was not aware of that before I started, where they've got their kinetic cooler in the middle, and then they've got a more traditional heat sink fin array with heat pipes around the outside so they can actually increase the performance of this design by leveraging the airflow that they already have from the kinetic cooler to remove a little bit more heat. This is the kind of thing you might see in an aftermarket, more, well, compact enthusiast type grade product. Then over here, they've got a live demo where they've got two identical heat elements, and they've got a cooler design they've been working on for quite some time for 1U server or rack mount designs, and then they've got a more traditional heat sink and fan blower design that also has to fit within that very, very low profile sort of form factor. So check this out. This one is running, dissipating all the heat it needs to dissipate, so I, they won't quote me on this, but based on that they're saying this is probably in the sort of 90 to 100 watt range, I would have to guess that this is designed for kind of 65 watt CPUs. Then they've got another one right here on the left that requires a fan in order to achieve the same temperature. **fan noise** And I think we've made our point. Now, 1U coolers aren't always the quietest things in the world, but as far as showcasing the potential of the technology, I think this does a pretty good job. Speaking of showcasing potential technology, one of our sponsors for the show today, Phantom Glass. These guys make darn good screen protectors. They are so clear and so natural feeling that you'd almost swear that it's just the Gorilla Glass that's on your phone, and you'd be right, because it's just a layer of Gorilla Glass that goes on top of your phone. 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