Asetek Sends Cease And Deiist Order To AMD Over Fury X Cooler

The alternate supplier would be, cough cough Asetek. I guess that is one way of obtaining sells and business - :lol:. I could see AMD making a deal with Asetek to supply the coolers and allow sells of the Cooler Master ones remaining. Now can AMD sue Cooler Master on this?
 
noko said:
The alternate supplier would be, cough cough Asetek. I guess that is one way of obtaining sells and business - :lol:. I could see AMD making a deal with Asetek to supply the coolers and allow sells of the Cooler Master ones remaining. Now can AMD sue Cooler Master on this?
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I am going to predict a price increase if Asetek becomes the supplier on the Fury-X and any other manufacturers effected by this. Asetek has them between a rock and a hard place.

It will ultimately come down to the appeal that CM filed though.
 
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If having the water pump on the block is the only usable/effective method for AIO water cooling - other methods prevent commercial viability - then suing Asetek being a Monopoly maybe an option. Which may bring some relief on current sales (but if law suite fails all the back compensation would probably be granted).

Challenge the validity of the patent. The patent from what I've read sound ridicules and about as vague as one can get (probably too vague). Ask for relief to allow selling product while case is structured. If prior art, especially on some public forum where someone actually put a pump on the water block, it worked etc. -> patent I don't think would stand.

Redesign away from the patent which takes time, does not address product that is on hand to sell. Putting pump as part of the fan (motor and blades) or inside of water cooler maybe will work. Which then can allow a multiple component cooling (like two water blocks or more for different items inside of the case.

Any Patent lawyers here? I maybe just talking out of my . . .
 
noko said:
If having the water pump on the block is the only usable/effective method for AIO water cooling - other methods prevent commercial viability - then suing Asetek being a Monopoly maybe an option. Which may bring some relief on current sales (but if law suite fails all the back compensation would probably be granted).

Challenge the validity of the patent. The patent from what I've read sound ridicules and about as vague as one can get (probably too vague). Ask for relief to allow selling product while case is structured. If prior art, especially on some public forum where someone actually put a pump on the water block, it worked etc. -> patent I don't think would stand.

Redesign away from the patent which takes time, does not address product that is on hand to sell. Putting pump as part of the fan (motor and blades) or inside of water cooler maybe will work. Which then can allow a multiple component cooling (like two water blocks or more for different items inside of the case.

Any Patent lawyers here? I maybe just talking out of my . . .
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I wish they would just put pump in the rad with a good full cover block, then we can just pull the rads for cfx and pipe them into our loops


but I don't know if the next generation will have AIO water
 
HybridHB said:
They should just make the fury x air cooled.
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I've got the air cooled fury pro which is the cut down Fiji pro chip. It's got a huge heat sink and fan on it but does a great job of keeping the chip cool and very quiet. I suppose they could make an air cooled full fat Fiji but I bet the cost would be more and they would have some thermal issues to deal with.
 
I have a fury as well and think the heatsink would be fine on a fury x. I dont think the water cooling is necessary at all.
 
If the Nano can be cooled at 1000 mhz very quietly and is smaller than a FuryX then I too don't see the absolute need for a water cooler. Now I do find the water cooler on the FuryX cool and as far as I am concern the best cooled stock GPU ever made. I think AMD listen well from last generation and getting the cooling solutions down, which I think they did better then the competition.
 
If prior art exsisted CM wouldnt have lost the original law suit on the Seidons.

They would have just invalidated the patents.
 
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