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Danamics gives up on LM10 cooler, focussing on other liquid-metal products instead

by Parm Mann on 23 January 2009, 11:00

Tags: LM10, Danamics

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Remember Danamics' LM10? Dubbed the world's first commercially available liquid metal-based CPU cooler, it arrived in the market back in November '08 with a staggering price-tag of £235.

Despite offering a self-contained electromagnetic pump and the promise of thermal performance that "exceeds most watercoolers in a single device", the overly-expensive cooler was always destined to struggle in today's market and has unsurprisingly been discontinued.

According to Danamics, the LM10 (pictured above) was "meant as a limited edition product" and it's now closing sales of this particular model. Users who've already splashed out (anyone?) can rest assured that the promised Socket 1366 mounting kits will still be supplied free of charge in the very near future.

With the ill-fated LM10 behind us, Danamics isn't giving up on liquid-metal technology and promises to introduce a new range of high-end computing products later this year. We're somewhat interested in seeing what else it can come up with.



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I forsee the geekiest “fail” pic right there :p

on the other hand, I have silent hope for Dana to come up with something very powerful yet not quite so expensive.
According to Danamics, the LM10 (pictured above) was meant to be just a limited-edition product and sales are therefore at an end.

With the ill-fated LM10 behind us

one or the other please guys, its either been canned because they didnt sell enough, or they sold them all…
Hopefully they will come up with something…….sellable next time.
It was canned because it cost £200+ and didn't outperform a £35 Thermalright TRUE.

Which was to be expected. Watercooling and the likes increase cooling by increasing the available surface area available for the heat to be dumped into the air. Every cooling system eventually relies on the transfer of heat from the heatsink/radiator part to the air. It doens't make “much” difference how efficiently you get the heat from source to the radiator, just that it gets there, what makes ALL the difference is the surface area of the radiator. In this case, the sink was always about the size of a TRUE, but had the added heat generated by the magnetic pump, the heat from which had no place else to go. INcreasing heatload with the same surface area is never ever going to increase performance, its literally impossible.

Whoever came up with the idea will hopefully be fired, and probably tarred and feathered, then the management guy who remotely believed the impossible design ambitions should be left alone, he's sure to feature in the Darwin Awards soon enough.
I'm not at all suprised, especially as the last attempt at a liquid metal cooler (the original Sapphire ‘Blizzard’ card) never even made it to production.