Our meeting with CoolIT went well. Despite setbacks in getting there (registration and the shuttle bus ride can be a bitch), we met with Geoff Lyon who showed us the Domino ALC self-contained water cooling unit. It’s a sweet little setup that we should get to test soon. Initial info says that it gives performance that’s on par with the TRUE, and for the same price, but you don’t have to buy extra fans or lap the base etc.

CoolIT is really pushing water cooling as their main thing. They’re moving away from TECs, in a sense.

As part of their push for water cooling, individual CoolIT brand components will be sold within the next two weeks. That means you can get replacement parts, or build your own sealed unit using their high-quality bits. It’ll be neat to see where this goes.

On display, they had a bunch of Phenom II systems assembled by all the high-end system makers, each using their liquid cooling systems on the CPU and video cards (which use sweet thin waterblocks).

The two big deals on display were proof-of-concepts they’re looking to market within the next 12-18 months. One was a phase change setup with active noise canceling. I got to hear it demoed. In the loud hall, you could hear the box’s two phase change units going and at the flip of a switch, they were silenced. Too cool.

The final proof of concept was a fully liquid cooled system they designed in-house. It used an X58 and Smackover board with dual HD4870s, multiple SSDs. Pix are forthcoming and will explain it best, but for now, think 1/2 the size of an Antec 900, super quiet, with gobs of power and more monitoring than you’d ever possibly need. It’s impressive. Can’t wait to show you.