https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M13dWRL9qkc
 

It's up for pre-order.

Xavier Zepherious
um why???

why would i want a cooling solution that covers 1/2 the motherboard -
covers up the dimms so you basically have to take the block off to do anything with the ram
let alone cover up RGB DIMMS so you can't see them??? WTH
 
look if you want standard parts like dimms then you can use standard cooling...duh!
 
if you want better cooling a custom loop will blow that away
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/icegiant-prototype-thermosiphon-cooler
 
The IceGiant ProSiphon Elite prototype model we received is so large, it nearly dwarfs the rest of our AMD Threadripper hardware, while the memory DIMMs are nearly obscured beneath the cooling tech. For perspective, the image above isn't the cooler towering atop a compact motherboard. The cooler here sitting atop our 32-core 2990WX and E-ATX Gigabyte X399 Aorus XTreme motherboard. So it dominates even the largest motherboards you can buy.

The finished product will be a lot thinner.

I agree I would want to see the finished product. Second I heard that the final product was going to be 1/3rd the size I didn't need to see numbers from Linus since it's not a product we will be using. It's like if we saw numbers for the CLC-360 and are told it's why we should buy a CLC-120 to cool our system. It's just not the same then again the CLC-120 isn't a bad product.

The thing is massive!  Having that hanging there doesn't give me a secure feeling...

Accessibility is crap. That hanging on the mobo and putting uneven pressure on the socket and CPU is crap. I don't want to mount a brick sideways to my CPU socket.

I watched that video when it first came out... Total click bait IMO. They claim the finished product will only be 30% of that size, with no loss in performance. Felt more like a pre-order sales pitch. Linus was trying his hardest to make it not sound like one.

and its not even 01 April
 
good luck getting the side cover on your case

castrator86

Not only is the IceGiant voluminous, it also weighs in at a hefty 4.85lbs

 
That's a NO from me dawg. Maybe if they designed it to mount directly to the case for stability it'd have a chance. But putting all that pressure on the board/socket is not going to end well if the thing falls over or gets set down too hard.
 

Same, I finally went to watercooling on my recent build after using a D14 since 2010.  I wanted to get away from needing big bulky coolers hanging off my motherboard and causing clearance issues whenever I wanted to run better than basic RAM (i.e. something with decent heatspreaders etc.).   I guess it could be worse.  I remember "back in the day" when copper and copper/aluminum hybrid heatsinks first started coming out.  They still attached directly to the socket itself instead of going through the motherboard or or being clipped onto brackets mounted through the board (like AM4).  You'd see reports of them literally ripping the CPU socket off the board due to the weight!

Cool GTX

and its not even 01 April
 
good luck getting the side cover on your case

Maybe why he didn't run the test with side on. I was wondering about that.
 
 

CraptacularOne
The tech does have solid theory and principle behind it, however it won't compete with high end custom loops in performance. It will be a suitable substitute for an AIO if they can get the size down to their claimed dimensions when it's ready. However as pointed out above it will inherently have accessibility issues because of it's size even when scaled back.

Very astute post, Mr. CrapT. :)

https://www.icegiantcooling.com/reviews
 
The review compares the ProSiphon Elite Prototype with the top heat pipe cooling options for AMD's 32-core Threadripper 2990wx CPU, i.e., the Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 and the Arctic Freezer 50TR, on overclocked settings.​At maximum fan speeds for each cooler, the ProSiphon Elite Prototype beat out the Noctua and the Arctic coolers by 4.2  C and 8.2  C, respectively.  
 
 
 not even compared to Watercooling ...yeah like duh any watercooling..ie thermisiphon should beat out a metal block Linus should be shamed for this one  
 
furthermore the thermisiphon is like 3-4x the size of those blocks.... like duh! unfair advantage -of course it should do better
just imagine bigger blocks might do better - its the airflow you need
 
real world testing??? where linus.... where?
 
was it open case where it could get fresh air or closed?
did you have the case vertical or horizontal? ...what is the stress on the cpu socket? - im considering shear force weight here as well - vs impact of full weight on cpu socket - long term
 
we have no real 1/3 size version to test - so it could be bull K'rap to get investors and may never pan out - they have no final product to live up to their promise yet - just a ugly awful prototype
 
and the proposed 1/3 size is longer and taller and sits closer to board - and offset - which may have shear force implications
- i understand the offset - its for gravity to force liquid(not water) to cpu where its evaporated - so it has to be offset for vertical case
 
what gets me is you are putting a cheap solution on a very expensive threadripper and motherboard - and probably has a hefty stack of ram
spend $4-5k on cpu,ram and MB and put a $100 solution on it - rather than properly cool it??????
 
if you can afford the highest offering from AMD or INTEL you can afford proper cooling - by gods you'd rather put your faith on a cheap cooling system - i can't fathom it

WRONG! 

Didn't realize it was Linus, i lasted 10secs into the video, blow hard much dude......

What's with the 'one and therefore all' assumptions?

Just because this bulky bs is how the technology is being implemented first time doesn't mean all variations will look just like it from here onwards.

Meaning, every argument from weight and accessibility will be moot once (and provided) competition sets in.

Think back (or just Google) the first water cooling systems more than a decade ago, they weren't anything like what we have today, and it wasn't until the AIO type that put regular air cooling to rest.

Too bulky and heavy.  It won't work and looks hideous.  This will also block ambient lighting in most systems.  Maybe this would have been fine back in the 2000s when AIO weren't around much and everyone had motorcycle parts for custom loops but almost 15-20 years later, things have changed.  This hideous looking block came way too late. lol  I'm sure a hand full of people will buy this but majority won't.  To each their own at the end of the day.