The Tuxedo Aquaris is an external water cooling system for the notebooks of the Augsburg Linux and system distributor Tuxedo Computers GmbH and a double of the XMG Oasis, which was presented at CES 2022 with the gaming notebook XMG Neo 15 (test) first appeared and now also has an adapted driver for Linux.
The compact, 1.4 kg, external all-in- In addition to the pump, the 120 mm radiator and a 120 mm fan with a depth of 2.5 cm, the Tuxedo Aquaris One water cooling system also contains an expansion tank. The optimally filled circuit holds 230 ml of coolant (20 ml of which is permanently in the notebook). For the time being, the Tuxedo Aquaris is only available and compatible with the Tuxedo Stellaris 15 Gen4, the almost identical Linux counterpart to the XMG Neo 15 with i7-12700H or i9-12900H.
Tuxedo Aquaris (image: Tuxedo)
In addition to the Alder Lake-H with up to 14 cores (6P+8E), the external water cooling also takes care of cooling a GeForce RTX 3060, 3070 Ti or 3080 Ti laptop GPU under Linux. The configurations are also based one-to-one on the gaming notebook from XMG.
- Intel Core i7-12700H (6P+8E, 20 threads), 120 watts
- Intel Core i9-12900H (6P+8E, 20 threads), 120 watts
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 laptop GPU (115+25 watts)
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti laptop GPU (125+25 watts)
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti laptop GPU (150+25 watts)
- 2×8 to 2x32GB DDR5-4800 (2x SO-DIMM)
- 1 × 500 GB to 2 × 8 TB NVMe SSD (M.2, PCIe)
- WQHD display with 2,560 × 1,440 pixels
- 93 Wh battery (screwed)< /li>
- 360 × 244 × 26.6 mm (W × D × H)
- 2.2 kilograms
All settings for the external water cooling can be made comfortably via the graphical user interface of the in-house system tool Tuxedo Control Center. Additional software is not necessary.
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Operation only released with distilled water
The Tuxedo Aquaris and the sister model XMG Oasis will continue to be sold in the first hardware revision released for series production, which was noticed by an accident in the editorial test in the spring. Customers were also affected after the market launch.
XMG suspects that the material fatigue on the connectors for the hoses to the notebook is due to the EK CryoFuel type coolant included with the XMG Oasis was. EK Water Blocks has not approved this liquid for use with the plastic used.
The Tuxedo Aquaris and the XMG Oasis are therefore only approved for use with distilled water for the time being.
External AiO water cooler for Linux costs 199 euros
While the Tuxedo Aquaris is offered from 1,999 euros in the Tuxedo online shop, the external AiO water cooling is available from 199 euros directly from the manufacturer. Tuxedo has published further information and various product videos in a press release.