Noctua Has Competition: Vapor Chamber Air Cooler (DeepCool Assassin IV VC)

DeepCool established itself in the affordable air cooler market a couple years ago with the AK620 and AK400, and now it's coming out with the DeepCool Assassin IV VC Vision (Vapor Chamber with a display on top). Vapor chamber air coolers have been tried in the past, but they are often prohibitively expensive to bring to market for CPUs. Now that CPU coolers have gone up in price and CPUs themselves have gotten harder to cool, there might be reason to try again -- we'll see when it releases later this year. The Noctua NH-D15 G2 would likely be in direct price competition with this air cooler, as they existing Assassin IV is already about $100.



TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - DeepCool at Computex 2024
01:10 - DeepCool Assassin IV Vapor Chamber Vision
04:21 - AK620 Digital Pro & AK400 Digital Pro
05:45 - AN400 Mini Downdraft Cooler
06:24 - Case Pixels

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[GamersNexus]

And our Noctua coverage on the channel!

[whyjay]

"Everything's under control" [temperature goes to 888 C, red-hot aluminum spills on the table]

[WithGas]

"You can put your favorite pixel art on there and block airflow at the same time..." xD the presenter is killing me, he's great!

[claudiobizama]

"Just slap a screen into everything" has been a theme lately?

[gladtbx]

Competition is always good for customers

[gjits]

those kidcore pixel kit cases are ADORABLE and remind me of all the various beading / light bright sort of crafting kit toys from the 90s

[SupraSav]

"Who put this in fahrenheit"
Rest of the world: *instantly favourite American person*

[TitanLeaf]

If only motherboard manufacturers had a header so these digital displays could be used as a fault code readout for boot issues. As it would be cheaper than a $1k MB.

[gscurd]

"Everything is under control" Screen immediately disagrees.

[fatjawns]

The one YouTuber I’m happy is spamming my inbox

[LapNgo-hu]

DC and Thermalright need to do a collab and call it the AK47 Peerless Assassin Phantom Spirt Digital.

[mightylink]

I've been noticing more and more lately that manufacturers don't like disclosing their prices anymore. They know telling people that it's too high will deter them from being interested in the product and they want to keep people hyped for as long as possible and avoid other products so they're pressured into buying it anyway when they find out the price is too high.

[tranthien]

"Depends on what temperature you want to use"

Canadian: *confused screaming*

[zebobm]

Noctua / Arctic / Deepcool are always doing some good shit.

[AdamariMedia]

Been loving the back to back computex season of uploads

[WyattClark-hqno]

Its nice to see that 7-segment displays are being used by some of these. A LCD screen is overkill when all I want is to look over and see how hot the CPU is.

[Moboproc]

14900K owner here. I really hope air cooling evolves because quite frankly, for my specific use as it stands, I just don't like aio's (or water cooling in general). Don't get me wrong, water cooling builds (aio or custom loop) look awesome, and for thermals it's almost always better, but I like the reliability and peace of mind of never having to worry about leaks or pump failure.

I am almost tempted to wait for this new crop of air coolers, see how they do in testing, and figure out a way to direct die cool on air. Perhaps with that I can maybe get somewhat similar thermals to an aio with an IHS.

High (albeit realistic) hopes for these air coolers, truly.

[gippygames]

I hope the Assassin IV VC cooler is available without that display. Vapor chamber coldplate cooling for CPUs should be considered now that high-end GPUs are using it.

[IcyCubey]

Hey Gamers Nexus, are you guys visiting the EK booth? I'd like to see their reaction haha

[haeihaeihaei]

Great, more screens that increase the prices even more.. Extremely useful for us with cases that's under the desk.