CoolIT Shows Off Ultra-Thin Omni Liquid GPU Cooler

CoolIT has long been known as a company to provide innovative and effective cooling for the enthusiast, and at CES, the company showed off four new products that aim to bring even better cooling performance to all of the components inside our PC’s. The company even managed to snag four CES Innovation awards for these products, so congrats to them for an impressive showing!

Of the products shown, the one to attract my attention the most was the Omni A.L.C. GPU cooler, which utilizes CoolIT’s liquid-cooling technology in order to keep your GPU as cool as can be, even during overclocking. There’s two reasons the Omni is interesting. The first is that once you buy the system, it’s good to last a while, regardless of whether you upgrade your GPU or not.

The cooler itself is a long metal plate, designed specifically for a certain graphics card. You slide that onto your GPU and secure it, and then secure the large radiator to the top of your chassis. Though it’s liquid-based cooling, I don’t believe it requires a motor, or at least I don’t remember seeing one. The product also doesn’t include fans, so you are free to use your own.

Because CoolIT will create new custom plates for all of the high-end cards, as soon as you upgrade to the latest model, you will just need to swap out the plate, and not the rest of the system. How much these plates would cost, I’m entirely unsure. Currently, the Omni isn’t set to go on sale, but CoolIT is rather looking for partnerships to see it bundled with a graphics card or used in an PC by a system builder. I’m hoping that it will become available to DIYers when it’s released.

One of the biggest benefits I see here is the space it frees up in your chassis. Sure, you need a huge rad, but that stays at the top of your chassis, and essentially, you free up tons of room in the central part of your PC. Take a look at this picture to see what I mean. These are dual-GPU graphics cards, but they’re as thin, if not thinner, than a regular single-slot cooler!