Cool beans... This Fanless Heatsink Is The Next Generation In CPU Cooling Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 CPU fans have a certain steampunkian quality to them. They’re loud, annoying, and collect all sorts of debris as they run, whirring endlessly and eventually failing. This new heatsink – more like an impeller coupled with a brushless motor – is the latest in heatsink technology and promises quiet and efficient heatsinkery in the future. Related: The Sandia Cooler Technology Summary
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/me nerds up: The corsair is an enclosed system. One of the main problems with that is that you are going to need a hacksaw to put your "no work" cooling system in (and out of) the box... because you can't take it apart, and the radiator don't go inside. You will also need fans on the radiator, and that block is gigantic (not fitting a lot of things) because it has a pump inside it. I would argue that "the way to go" if you are going liquid, is with waterblocks, a pump and a radiator... I have never used a radiator really. I took apart a walmart 30 dollar personal water cooler, and used the compressor, and a low flow recirculating fish pump (magnetic drive very quiet). If I was going to go that way in the future, I would use immersion http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/hardcorepc_reactor Of course I don't do windowsy things, so building linux clusters is easier and cheaper than burning up hw trying to push it hard. Still a fun hobby.
The biggest breakthrough in electronics efficiency for computers will come about when physicists are able to devise resistors that do not have resistive losses. Resistors are only there to do one thing: limit the ammount of electric current that can pass through. Yet they also waste some of the energy in the form of heat as an unintended byproduct. All this heat has to be removed away from the chips somehow to prevent overheating.
I disagree. Of course, you won't be putting the H100 in a computer you buy at Walmart or Bestbuy. You could always go with one of the smaller water coolers. Their radiators will go just about anywhere. My last build (different case) had an H60 and I put the radiator on the back panel...in place of the exhaust fan. Worked great. The block will fit on any Intel or AMD cpu and takes up less room than a stock cooler. Anyway, people who overclock generally build their own systems so they know what they have room for. btw, in all my cpu, gpu and memory overclocking I've never burnt a single piece of hardware. Oil immersion is cool...but expensive. shrug...
What is your board temp? Keeping the radiator indoors just doesn't seem wise to me. I see you have a lot of ventilation... I am sure it is fine... just seems counter-intuitive to me, and loud. What I meant by not fitting a lot of things, was that quite often the RAM etc is physically in the way of the block, not that it would not adapt to different chipsets. I do whole house automation... the way our system works is you have one server, and everything else pxe boots, and anything can control anything. Part of that is of course media, so silence is my thing... that is why I would go liquid. Of course now I am running a headless server which lives in a closet, so I am less concerned with noise atm... regardless, I am babbling. You get to disagree, and even be right. I wouldn't put a radiator INSIDE a build... that's all.
My six cpu cores run about 35c -38c at idle...around the mid to high 50c area under load. My system is very quiet. I have the fan speeds set on auto and they never ramp up. I should mention, though, that I'm not overclocking right now. As you can see in the picture of my system, the block doesn't get in the way of anything...ram, chipsets...nothing. Some big aftermarket air coolers have a problem with getting in the way of high profile ram, caps or the gpu, but not this watercooler block.
Board temp, not cpu... looking for ambiant temp. Yes... I see that yours doesn't. I can pull one out of the closet and show you that on another board it does. I ran one for a while... then my needs shifted.
True cooling begins at -196C. at least for these guys trying to squeeze 5ghz out of their cpu. idk how much of it actually is overkill but i imagine alot of it is. would be interested in immersion but not until my system dies and tigerdirect or newegg sells all you need for it. right now at tiger direct a deep fryer comes up when searching for immersion =P
