Using Radiators to Cool CPUs 245
dan writes "Overclockers Australia have a review up of the CPU Radiator Zen, a new approach to cooling your toasty CPU's. Rather than taking the traditional approach of a heatsink with lots of fins and a noisy 7,000rpm fan it uses radiator/heat pipe technology. The implementation of the unit is a bit flawed, but it is interesting to see where the technology is heading.. and if it can be done right I personally think this is where it will end up."
Noisy Fans? (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe I'm just an old-school style computer guy, but is fan noise really that big of a deal? My computer is in an infants room and it doesn't wake up the baby (counterstrike pumped through 4 speakers does, but that's beside the point). Honestly, who has a huge issue with fan noise?
And why always complain about CPU fan noise? Doesn't the fans in the power supply make more noise, anyway?
Submerging circuit board in an inert liquid (Score:5, Insightful)
They mentioned its possible application to CPU cooling in supercomputers -- the idea was that you would actually submerge whole circuit boards in the liquid, while pumping it through a conventional refrigeration unit. Heat sinks be damned!
Apparently it never caught on, though -- I can't find anything about it online. Even mighty google just says, "Did you mean 'chlorine'?" I think it was incredibly expensive; perhaps that's the reason.
is overclocking really necessary these days? (Score:3, Insightful)
Where "it" will end up (Score:5, Insightful)
um, guys? (Score:1, Insightful)
It's cool and all, but if this were software, it would surely be beta. Do we really need beta announcements? (*cough* mozilla *cough*)
Re:Heat Capacity (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Heat Capacity (Score:2, Insightful)
This would be great... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Heat Capacity (Score:3, Insightful)
try this: (Score:1, Insightful)
My proposal:
Use a water block on your processor(s)
and recirculate water from a large fish tank.
I think large aquariums use a water pump for the filter system anyway.
Even a dual AMD box would have a hard time boiling off the water from a 30 gallon aquarium.
Re:Other reviews (Score:2, Insightful)