Introduction
"It's Chilly inside and it's chilly outside." Which fan of 'Get Shorty' would possibly forget Ray 'Bones' Barbone's flat joke about Chilly Palmer (John Travolta) at the beginning of the movie? Working with Asetek's new Vapochill unit in cold Europe instantly reminded me of those words. So I say, "Look at me", as I am giving you 'the beef' about this Danish super cooling solution for socket processors.
You certainly remember my initial article '
In the initial article I was pretty impressed with Asetek's technology and I certainly generated a lot of positive expectations. However, we know that the proof is in the pudding and before Vapochill can get a 'thumbs up' of 'thumbs down' the very unit has to go through rigorous testing. Tom's Hardware received Vapochill several weeks ago and we have played around with it a lot. Let's find out if Vapochill can indeed live up to the high expectations that I had after looking at its technology two months ago.
The Manual
Who in the world would ever start a review with the manual? Well, I would, but only if a manual is as good as Vapochill's. You can have a look at it by yourself, because