Eric Garay

Koolance actually calls it an LN2 Liquid Nitrogen Evaporator. You may have seen it on their home page among some of the other product launch announcements. It comes on the heels of the recent GIGABYTE Overclocking Championship in LA last month where the participants use LN2 to super cool Quad core processors that are overclocked in hopes of setting some new world benchmark records. And if nothing else, you beat out everyone else who’s competing as well.

The pot is made from a copper core with nickle plating. Covering the copper this way keeps the pot looking good by avoiding oxidization (tarnished look) which is a common issue with the copper and brass pots around. The hope here is that having a copper core will still match or surpass performance. That’s going to be the important note since the home made “F1″ copper pot is the pinnacle of performance.

As with any pot, it actually sits on top of the CPU and is held down by a series of extra long screws. A nylon mounting bracket secures the pot from above while a back plate secures from the bottom of the motherboard. In an ideal installation, you’ll need to ‘water proof’ your motherboard from condensation build up on the outside of the pot as the LN2 evaporates. Koolance informed me that the water proofing supplies are already in the works and will arrive soon.

I’ll hopefully have one of these bad boys in my possession for some bench time soon. Since we all can’t afford a $300+ custom made F1 for some elite cooling, perhaps this will fill in that gap. I doubt it was intended to measure up to custom made pots, but it should cool well enough to promote some record setting attempts. When I get my hands on one, I’m sure it’ll be posted up on Futurelooks.com in greater detail.