Asetek Rad Card, AIO heatsink for GPU without radiator

Small form factor boxes are becoming increasingly popular and demanded by users, but their reduced space tends to be a problem in terms of cooling, especially when it comes to high-end hardware that generates a lot of heat. To solve this problem, Asetek has presented its new Rad Card heatsink for GPUs, with a new focus on radiator technology that reinvents the way this type of heatsink works.

Asetek to the rescue of lost space

The Asetek Rad Card GPU heatsink It is installed in a PCI-Express slot on the motherboard, just like an additional graphics card. In this way, and since the vast majority of motherboards have several of these sockets, the space is better used and the need to install a dedicated radiator is eliminated.

Because developers have dropped support for multiple graphics configurations, free PCIe has been left on most motherboards, and Asetek has wanted to take advantage of this free space with a new concept of liquid cooling for graphics. As we have previously commented, the Alienware R11 desktop model already incorporates, for the moment exclusively, this Rad Card with which Asetek affirms that noise is reduced by up to 69% while graph temperatures are improved by 20% .

This is their latest innovation and was designed and built for Dell's Alienware gaming brand; with this new design Asetek has taken up the unused space on what would have been a daughter card and filled it with a radiator and blower fan to replace the typical 120mm or 240mm radiator of these all-in-one systems. refrigeration.

As a result, a lot of space is saved in the box as it does not require a place to mount the radiator (usually on the front or top of the box), leaving that space free to add extra ventilation and thus optimize air flow. The tubes inside the box are usually a problem, but with this design that shortens their distance it gives us less concern when it comes to thinking about how to place the tubes inside the equipment.

Asetek Rad Card, available to everyone

As we said at the beginning, this product was initially going to be exclusive to Alienware OEM R11 equipment, but it seems that it will eventually be made available to all users and will be sold as a separate product. In fact, it's probably not even called "Asetek Rad Card»And end up putting some more commercial and striking name.

Unfortunately, there are still many questions in the air, so at the moment we cannot tell you availability date, price, or even performance data, although it is true that regarding the latter it is quite likely that they will begin to publish data to not too long.