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Silent Pump for Water-Cooled PCs
Wycliffe writes "New Scientist has an article about a silent pump for water-cooled PCs.
The system, developed by a Californian start-up company, aims to silently solve the problem that the faster chips get, the hotter they become."
I use an engine from a nuclear submarine for my water-cooling pump, you insensitive clod!
You could just scrap the battery entirely, and travel with a small coal fire to power your laptop.
Insert some vague simpsons reference here about lisa, the laws of thermodynamics, and the obeying thereof.
Skip: It's a cpu cooling system...like a jet engine for the water. Only there are no moving parts, so it's very very quiet.
Ryan: Like how quiet?
Skip: Doubtful another computer user would even pick it up. Even if they did, it would sound like...whales humping...or a seismic anomoly. Anything but a cpu cooling system. We fooled with this a couple years ago, but couldn't get it to work. *Pauses* This isn't a mock-up, is it? They really built this thing?
Adopted from Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October . Thank you.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
From the good ol' FA:
However, others are cautious about the idea. "I don't like mixing water and electricity," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England, a company that specialises in PC noise elimination. "Even if all the technical details are ironed out, I think it will be five years at least before fans are replaced. They are still the cheapest option."
Poor Paul Lee. He doesn't like mixing water and electricity.
He must take cold showers, because heating water generally requires a device called a "hot water heater", in which an electrically-operated device is actually submerged in water! Horrors!
Actually, he probably takes his baths in the spring out back, since water from a centralized system at some point was pumped by electric motors, and some of that electricity might still be in the water.
If he's not lucky enough to have a spring on his property, his kids probably wake up every morning and hoist the bucket up from the well.
And we don't even want to think about his other bathroom facilities...
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Apparently they are using one of their underpowered machines as their webserver...shes dead.
You forgot... 4)??? and 5)Profit! Please make sure all future listings conform to the approved standards.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of mini pumps used to power a super silent nuclear submarine!!!! HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER ALL OVER AGAIN
Make me a waterproof motherboard first.
Ryan: She started compiling the new Linux kernel this morning.
"I don't like mixing water and electricity," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England
YOU GIRLY WUSS MAN!!
--Swiftech announces their new liquid cooling system that uses coffee instead of water. Now geeks can have their cooling and drink it too..
Actually, you seem to have missed the actual attribution of that quote. It's not from the company making this new water-cooling setup but from a guy at QuietPC whose whole livelihood is based on selling competing products. He's just some guy saying the tech won't be ready for 5 years. The article's author doesn't seem to have bothered to ask the guy from Cooligy how soon he thinks it will be on the market.
I wonder if in 5 years we will have different processors, where this will not be effective. Think little bacteria or DNA or something organic as a CPU.
Don't you think it's a little early to be quite this drunk?
BFL
There's one thing computing teaches you, and that's that there's no point to remembering everything.
--Doug Copland
It can be a very serious problem!
bad sig...no donut.
This isn't just a law of thermodynamics, but a law of marketing as well.
Remember when 486 chips were really cool? Now they're not at all cool. Time does that to things.According to my kids, time has done that to me, too. I can remember when I was really cool, back in the day...
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Damnit, you are ruining a perfectly fine thread by adding in "facts" and using "logic". You and your practicality and fiscal responsibility can go to take a flip while we dream of cold fusion powered watches, cause damnit, we need it to last 30,000 years, yet be available in the checkout line at Walmart. Damnit.
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You RTFA, AC.
It is a pump. A pump with no moving parts, which uses electrostatic forces as the "pump".
I look forward to the day where this can happen you, too.
That is what the poster's private parts are for: The heat sink...
On a related note I have a story. It was a late night bull session at a science fiction conference about fifteen years ago. I was in a group consisting of two authors, an editor and a couple of fellow fen in an otherwise empty con suite. The con suite staff tried to close down the bar, but ended up just giving me the keys because we weren't about to leave (I was known to the concom).
We went for hours carrying on a typical SF bull session, ranging across a variety of subjects, when we got onto the subject of whether intersteller war was worth the energy expenditures. After all, the amount of energy required to boost to, say, 1/3 C and then decellerate a good sized spacecraft is itself enough to char a good sized planet. In fact you would be better off to use that energy directly to create whatever it is that the other solar system has that you want. Economically it makes no sense. There just aren't many resources worth the effort to transport, much less sending a conquering fleet as well.
There was some agreement that someone might launch an invasion fleet for religious reasons, but a couple of people disagreed saying that, even then, the cost could not be justified to a taxpaying populace. But then one person, Raul Reyes, made an interesting suggestion for a resource that could not be created easily: Truly large heat sinks.
It works like this; if you are doing enormous (godlike enormous) industrial works you are going to need equally enormous heat sinks. How big? Well, comets in the Keiper belt and Oort cloud would work, but rounding up enough would require so much energy that it isn't worth the effort. Uranus and Neptune are about right. Saturn would work as well, but it is really too hot to be very efficient.
So final agreement was reached about the time the sun was coming up and the wine was running out: Intersteller invasion is worth the cost if you need to use someone else's trans-Jovian planets as heat sinks. And we figured this out years before the Athlon was even a glint in AMD's eye.
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In fact, I run my processor at negative voltage, and now it functions as a small air conditioner.