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Using Radiators to Cool CPUs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-I-guess-that'd-work dept.

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."

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  1. "Why, when I was your age..." by Embedded+Geek · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    BEGIN Old_Codger:

    Can't help remembering the original (128K & 512K) Macs. No fan. I worked at a third party shop in high school and we did a land office business replacing blown flyback transformers in the Summer - dang things had a manufacturing flaw and dropped like flies. Inveitably, I was able to sell the customer a fan, either a pizeoelectric, completlely internal "butterfly" one or the traditional "hole in the case" one.

    The irony, of course, was that the new flybacks didn't have the flaw and, although its always good to have a frosty CPU, the fan's value was questionable.

    END(Old Codger)

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    "Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."

  2. A family scene ten years from now... by marijnm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Son, it's so cold in the house"

    "But Mom, I don't want to play quake8 again!"

  3. are you sure? by Erris · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Mineral Oil + Fiber Glass = ?

    Better ?flourinate? it.

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    DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
  4. Re:Retarded Mods by bowb · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I know saying Retarded Mod is redundant, but none the less... Who was the fuckwit that modded this as (-1, Offtopic)? It is already at -1, cuntstain! No wonder Slashdot is going down the shitter.

    Heh, Turd Report, don't question the moderators. They are fickle -- who know's what motivates them to moderate one way or the other.

    I wish I could post at a lower score. I face a dilemma: I wish to ask Turd Report a question and common courtesy requires that I be logged-in when doing so; but at the same time I can only post at Score:1, making my post stick out like dogs' balls to those good folks who read at Threshold:1.

    No matter. Turd Report, I don't understand why Tuesday's turd (the chicken) only scored a 2. Here is a fascinating turd, I thought as I was reading the report, but was disapointed to see it score so low. I know it must have been an unpleasant experience, but often artists must suffer for their work.

  5. Wow by jesseraf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I needed to read the title twice. I thought it said "Using RADIATION to Cool CPUs."

    I was thinking, what are these guys crazy. All in the name of CPU cycles I guess eh?