Cooling Down Hot Processors

DonnaMai writes "Face it: the only scorching hot thing you want with a chip is salsa. Any other overheating is potentially counterproductive, and can be downright damaging to the microprocessor -- or other components. This article uncovers potential ways to chill the chips."

Comments

Salsa

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know about you, but I like my salsa cold

Re:Salsa

[eno2001]

Since when is salsa ever "scorching hot" even in reference to spiciness?

Since the [tt]ime that salsa is made with Habaneros (which aren't really peppers) that will burn a hole straight from your mouth to your ass. Considering that most people here on Slashdot don't have any real distance between those two sections of the body, I guess it doesn't mean much tho... ;P

Eh?

[American AC in Paris]

Face it: the only scorching hot thing you want with a chip is salsa.

Because nothing says "fiesta!" quite like third-degree burns on the roof of your mouth...

Re:Eh?

[karnal]

"Fieththa".

Nope, didn't work. Roof is still tender.

Re:Eh?

[christopherfinke]

I prefer hot con queso

You prefer hot "with cheese"?

You Insensitive Clod

[big-giant-head]

To maximize my ROI i use my p4 as a hotplate/Pizza Warmer when I'm not surfing the web.

Bah

[ikkonoishi]

When I was a kid we had to cool our chips by using our little brothers as a heatsink.

In my day....

[vought]

We used to build a little dam around the processor with putty, fill up the reservoir with freeze-spray, and drink margaritas while the whole shebang evaporated noisily.

No fancy metal heat sinks for us...andd we liked it!

Move!

[turboflux]

Best way to cool your processor is to move to Canada. Hands down.

Tsssss!

[geomon]

Ice cubes work well.

They don't last very long, though.

Perhaps we should be working on a better ice cube!

Re:Tsssss!

[athakur999]

That's still thinking small. The biggest obstacle to cooling CPUs is that air is a very poor conductor of heat. Since almost all cooling systems used for PCs at some point have to radiate heat into air to cool down, air is the obvious weakness in the system.

Solution: We all need to grow gills and move under the sea.

I like hot

[SpongeBobLinuxPants]

I don't know what the problem is, I like hot chi... oh wait, you're talking about chips, nevermind...

Insert Witty Title Here

[LewsTherinKinslayer]

This is so lame, I think I should post it AC...

... but...

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!

(Or, for the Futurama fan in you, and me, Nixon: "The loot, the loot, the loot is on fire!")

Re:Better than water cooling

[Ingolfke]

I can one up you. I built one of these, but instead of using mineral oil, I used vegetable oil. I run Gentoo, so I'd download a copy of Gnome, recompile from scratch, and then toss a bag for fries into the oil. They'd cook up really nicely in about 7 minutes. A friend of my brother, built one of these contraptions, and installed Gentoo from stage 1. He managed to deep fry and entire turkey. It was delicious.

Re:And why was this article accepted?!

[JaffaKREE]

If you'd seen the videos, you'd know Paris Hilton can actually go pretty deep...

Re:Intelligent case design

[Zemplar]

"Not to get into a clock-waving contest (excuse my pun), I'm running a Prescott 2.4GHz chip on a microATX board inside a gutted Mac Classic with one 8mm fan in the side, one 12mm fan out the back, and it runs at an average 96F. Just my two cents."

VERY IMPRESSIVE. Hell, I don't even know where I can find an 8mm or 12mm fan, let alone ones that would actually cool anything.

Intel Branding

[Junior J. Junior III]

Hotness is all about Intel's branding....

Did you hear about the new hotness? Intel Pentium, SCORCHING PERFORMANCE! ssssssssss!

Stick a Prescott on a long stick and apply that scortching brand on the rear end of any Longhorn cattle, and you've got yourself a stampede of sales, yeeeee-haw!