Danish manufacturer Danamics has today taken the wraps off its latest liquid-metal CPU cooler, the LMX Superleggera.
The familiar-looking cooler, pictured above, claims to offer the same "award-winning performance as the Danamics LMX" at a much lower price point.
At £99.99, it still isn't cheap, but it's a far better proposition than its predecessors - namely the £170 Danamics LMX and the original £235 Danamics LM10.
All credit to Danamics, though, it clearly sees potential in the liquid-metal cooling market, and it continues to work to find the right medium between price and performance. At a penny under £100, it's now able to challenge extreme, high-end water cooling setups.
So what's changed? Well, not a lot by the looks of it. Danamics tells us the LMX Superleggera CPU cooler is essentially the same - offering a nickel-plated aluminium heatsink and nickel-plated copper tubes that circulate liquid metal (Sodium Potassium) throughout the cooler with the aid of an electromagnetic pump.
The LMX Superleggera still measures 158.2mm x 170.5mm x 90mm, and it still weighs 1,180g. What has changed is CPU support, as the LMX Superleggera ships in two unique variants - one supporting Intel sockets LGA775/1156/1366 and another supporting AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3.
The biggest changes lie within the bundle. Danamics will ship the LMX Superleggera without any bundled fans - though the cooler will accept any of the 120mm variety with 25mm or 38mm thickness. Other cost savings may revolve around the bundled external Powerbooster - used to regulate power from a system's PSU to the cooler's electromagnetic pump. Now dubbed Powerbooster 2, it's smaller and lighter than the original and slots into a single 3.5in drive bay.
A high-end liquid-cooling solution such as Corsair's Hydro H50 Series is still comfortably cheaper, but Danamics' liquid metal alternatives are beginning to come into the equation. All we need now are some real-world LMX Superleggera performance numbers.
