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Watercooling Drifting Mainstream
pacc writes "With Prescott said to dissipate 103 W and the dual Apple G5 playing in the same league, air cooling seems less than sensible.
Nikkei Electronics has an article about watercoolers getting standardized by Hitachi. A technology pioneered by a NEC desktop last May."
Watercools his system using a radiator from a '55 Lincoln. You gotta love it.
Not a bad looking box, either (though I usually end up looking at my monitor more than I do my computer case.)
It seems to me that with all the concern over cyber-pollution these days (discarded monitors and other computer components) maybe it's time to take a greener approach and harvest whatever relics we can from the last great love affair with speed and power: the automobile.
The trend is towards customized boxes we build ourselves anyways, right? So go to the local junkyard and shop American for a change.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
this could be great if people knew how to service them properly, in my own mind, watercooling is more effective than aircooling in many applications (cars, computers etc) but CARE must be exercised. What was once a hardware hacker's toy is now becoming mainstream, this is a VERY good thing.. .
Manufacturers, please, please, start putting the processors on the back-sides of the motherboards!
The back side can be one huge heat sink, with large cooling fins, just like nice audio amp gear. If need be, the entire backplane can be one extruded piece of alloy. You can even include water cooling "safely" as no piping needs to enter the case at all. The back-side is the outside of the case!
What is so hard about this idea?
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