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category_five said:The reliability is the only reason I want to do this. There are many applications where the "golf cart" is a superior solution over the "sports car". Sports cars certainly have their uses but not everyone wants the maintenance associated with one.
Currently if you wanted to implement a computer in a remote location and want zero maintenance time you are stuck with a passive heat sink and a processor several generations old.
Couple a passive cooling solution that works reliably on a higher heat output processor with solid state memory mass storage (USB flash drive type) and you have a computer that you could set up running in a storage closet and potentially never have to physically maintain.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that one of the bottlenecks to higher processor speed is efficient thermal solutions. Unless there is a massive shift in the method by which computer processors run more efficient cooling is needed. As it stands water cooling is certainly efficient enough but is too unreliable for the mainstream and this reliability needs to be addressed before we will see water cooling taken seriously by the industry.
I think I've been clear in saying I am not going to use a fan.That pumpless watercooling system still requires a fan
Sure, some people use that as a solution but condensation becomes an issue. In any case in most places it's not cold year round. But once again I have made no mention of this.Now before you go saying that you could place the radiator on that pumpless system some place cold so that it doesn't require a fan....
Good point.Water cooling is by no means unreliable, when used properly it is no less reliable than a regular heatsink. The problem is that mistakes can still happen, and when they do in a water cooled system the result could be a whole lotta water on a whole lotta expensive stuff that doesn't like water
Actually I intend to look into how transformers are used to passively water cool electronics. Of course your right that the technology is not directly applicable twords computers.PS : Dont bring up cases of other systems such as transformers and old autos that used a passive water cooling system as any type of proof that it will work on a computer.
/shrugThe physics wont let a pumpless watercooling system work much better than that other system (w/o resorting to some sort of heatpipe situation with evaporation and condensing).
category_five said:Actually I intend to look into how transformers are used to passively water cool electronics. Of course your right that the technology is not directly applicable twords computers.
/shrug
Originally Posted by category_five
Actually I intend to look into how transformers are used to passively water cool electronics. Of course your right that the technology is not directly applicable twords computers.
Actually, we were saying that passive coolant systems are used to COOL transformers, not that transformers play some part in making passive coolant loops work for electronics. I don't know if it was miscommunicated earlier or if you just got confused, but I didn't want to send you chasing info on something that doesn't relate, or exist