Wieland created a liquid cooler without a pump; here is the prototype

Germany is the land of PC gaming and Wieland's proposal comes from the Teutonic territory: the German company has in fact created a AIO liquid heatsink that does not require the use of the classic pump.
At the moment the original cooler is a prototype, but the famous overclocker Der8auer was lucky enough to preview one of these units, without however knowing in detail the technical specifications and the precise functioning of the internal circuits. Let's find out how his test went.

Silent and functional

The Wieland cooler brings a gift two 120mm fans and a metal plate which is responsible for managing the heat transfer from the CPU to the cooling circuit. The basic principle is quite common, dealing with simple operation: the liquid absorbs the thermal energy produced by the processor, and then disperses it through the cooler circuit.

This method is already widely used in the industrial field for large-scale production and its application on a small scale could bring some significant advantages: a cooling system without a pump would in fact face reduced production costswith easier maintenance management and above all much lower noise levels than solutions with an integrated pump.

But the performance?

On the performance front, Der8auer subjected the system to some tests, finding good performance in synthetic benchmarks and gaming. The overclocker compared the Wieland cooler with a Corsair H510ia heatsink with integrated pump and two 240mm fans, looking at one difference of approximately 8 degrees under equal conditions.

The gap between the traditional solution and the Teutonic company's proposal is not small, but considering the direct advantages brought by the absence of the pump and above all keeping in mind the development phase of the prototype, the numbers give rise to hope. Would you be willing to sacrifice a few degrees in favor of lower noise and lower costs?