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[GPO]Solitaire
06-06-2008, 05:04
Sounds like water cooling your CPU could take a very interesting turn if IBM have their way. Instead of pumping water over the CPU how about pumping it Through the CPU...

Two years ago, IBM announced a breakthrough with carving channels (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/26/ibm_chip_cooling_tech/) into chips to let thermal paste sink down nearer the silicon. Then, in 2007, IBM Zürich patted itself on the back for cutting more channels into the (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/22/ibm_paste_spreading_scheme/) cooling unit. Now, IBM looks to pump water between stacks of processors and other common motherboard components to keep them cool.


read more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/ibm_chips_liquid/

latency
06-06-2008, 09:53
Yea... I get this nagging feeling that maybe we should be concentrating more on reducing heat output and power consumption, at least until the successor of silicon comes along, rather than just finding more elaborate ways to pull the heat away.