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Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling
unassimilatible writes "Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship. Danamics, a Danish company, claims that its LM-10 outperforms standard air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled systems with a mere 1W power draw. 'The liquid metal is a key component in Danamics cooling systems. Liquid metal has two major advantages when cooling high power density heat sources: Firstly it has superior thermo physical properties that decrease temperature — and temperature non-uniformity — on die and across chips. Secondly, the electrical properties of the liquid metal enables efficient, reliable and ultra compact electromagnetic pumping without the use of moving parts, shafts, seals, etc.' Awesome technology, if it actually works and is affordable. The submitter requests that the moderators terminate all T-1000 jokes."
He got like 3 lines in that whole movie, and now he's left out of the fun of being ribbed on Slashdot. Probably has something to do with having no ribs... Sorry, had to :P
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
Slashdot: Remember, Subby, when I promised to kill you last? Subby: That's right, Slashdot. You did. Slashdot: I lied.
I can see the Governator imposing a ban on the import of this product...
Too much of anything can kill you. Water, salt, mercury, oxygen etc etc. They probably use some alloy with an extremely low melting temperature. The article is a bit short on the specifics.
Lets test your theory. I demand you pay several women to sleep with me until I die. We'll see who laughs last!
Chill out. Dickwad.
Sig this!
"That's not liquid metal, that's a mimetic poly alloy!"
"It's as if millions of nano cpus suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced"
"Mime or mime not. There is no try."
"T-1000, I am your mould."
I think the liquid metal is their server.
We give you funny cartoons and heatsinks.
You give us Bush, Microsoft and Michael Jackson.
Bad deal, Denmark thinks.
If you quote this signature there'll be 72 copies of Windows ME waiting for you in Heaven.
Actually, back in my sophomore year in college, my roommates and I built a liquid-metal-cooled 6-node cluster into the back seat of an old Fiero.
The cool thing was, power was so cheap (via government subsidies called "grants") that we eventually upgraded the cluster to run a realtime terrain modeling system that was supposed to identify a path through a network of roads that allowed for the highest average speed, given speed limits and road lengths. The terrain modeling part would determine a way to maximize the time spent going downhill.
DARPA initially supported us, and were going to upgrade our status, give us clearances, etc. but they eventually killed our funding after Ford found out we were using a Fiero and complained about our physical safety while operating the system. But man, DARPA know of some *way* cool ghost towns and low-traffic road networks.
The preceding is a work of fiction written by an easily-distracted procrastinator in a severe time crunch
Could be worse. Could be cesium.
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
He's made out of a "mimetic poly-alloy" you insensitive clod! Evil governator killing robots have feelings too ya know!
A little reactive? It would burn pretty violently if simply exposed to air, and EXPLODE if it came in contact with water. And either event would produce highly corrosive byproducts.
Where do I sign up?!
lol Every stick Bromine+Al?
Your typical Aluminium (Aluminum) heatsink will burn ferociously, spitting white hot molten Al during assembly! hahahahahaha!
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Don't worry. They'll be back.
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http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
Yes indeed. That website triggered positively explosive reactions in my retinas. :(
I'll be sending you a bill.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
"The submitter requests that the moderators terminate all T-1000 jokes."
The only way to do that would be to wait until the thread becomes stale, assess people who made the jokes, and then send back a cybernetic soldier to kill their mothers.
I hate printers.
Galinstan. One of the lesser known elements of the 'Axis of Evil'!! (Metallic Substances Edition)
Fire ze missiles!
Isn't bromine a type of soup?
how about a link to the firefox extension that autolinkifies plain text urls? :)
sheesh!
and thanks
What he meant was ...
Do not touch the operational end of The Device.
Do not look directly at the operational end of The Device.
Do not submerge The Device in liquid, even partially.
Most importantly, under no circumstances should you-HHhhhHH!
Doing so, will result in an 'unsatisfactory' mark on your official testing record followed by death.
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)