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Full Immersion Cooling Comes To Desktop PCs
mr_sifter writes "After three years of research and around £100,000 of R&D costs, UK-based Armari has unveiled its XCP prototype. It's a full immersion liquid cooled PC which supports standard ATX components. Unlike conventional liquid cooled PCs, the components are all easy to swap in and out as they're swimming in liquid, rather than under waterblocks. It also looks amazing, pumping around 70KG of electrically inert cooling fluid (salvaged from an old Cray) around its military grade perspex shell."
"so the XCP is filled with FLUAHRGHPT." Huh?! What's that again? I can't hear what he is saying. What liquid did they use?
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Was I the only one who read it as " Full Immersion Coding Comes To Desktop PCs" ?
I had a picture in my head of a waterproof system. Perhaps it's a metaphor for coding while drinking a microbrew....
Ah, but this is just step 1. In step 2 they add a trained octopus to each tank that will do your PC repairs for you. Then you'll really see the value! Just don't forget to feed your octupus, or it will come looking for food on it's own.
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Mmmmm, tako...
*drool*
Actually that isn't too strange of an idea. Flourinert, the coolant used, actually can hold a significant amount of dissolved oxygen and has been used in lab experiments where rats and other animals were kept fully submerged and breathing the liquid for a non-trivial period of time. So, I'd go with a larger tank and a small cadre of laser equipped, liquid cooled, attack tigers...
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Ugh. Warm beer?
GP is obviously British.
California would add grilled cheese to its list of potentially cancer-causing chemicals if it could. Probably already has, in fact.
no doubt.
Wake me up when they put a pc in a high vacuum. You could even put the turbo pump in a different room.
Bring one of these puppies to a LAN party, and the babes will be swarming all over you... wait... has anybody ever been to a LAN party where babes were actually present?
...Or at least bad tempered sea bass.
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.. when we have fully baptized and oil-annointed CPU's.
Oh, come on. They were just really smart and spent it all on strippers, now they have to come up with a justification of where all the dough went. Look! Blinkenleuchtz...
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After the Sony rootkit fiasco why in the HELL would anyone name a computer product "XCP"???!!!
Because most people have never heard of the rootkit fiasco (let alone "XCP"). Additionally I don't think most people who have heard of the rootkit would be dumb enough to confuse a bad copy protection system with a liquid cooled PC. Besides, a lot of acronyms double up for different things, there's only so many TLAs available in this world.
Step 1: Read about crays
Step 2: Pay Billco £100,000
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
It's immersion cooling. Pour liquid, add pump and radiator/bong, submit to slashdot.
We were doing this in the 90's!
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You think most Americans can? We can't either.
Camping on quad since 1996.
That fluorinert-based cooling apparatus comes with a PC.