Everything is still using Air cooling

[oldSock]

Cooling a PC is sometimes not as hard as people think, keeping the temperature however is not easy. Especially with hardware that is pushed to the extreme just to get that extra few frames or that extra few points in a bench. So what of it? You may ask… Cooling is hardly a new  problem and it is hardly worth pointing out that water cooling still needs a fan and radiator thus technically it is still basically air cooled but not in the traditional way…

 

I agree and yes there are no really new ways to cool your PC and I guess this is the point I am making. Has cooling hit the wall?

 

One creative way is to use a air compressor and "jet cool" your CPU but that was never practical because a air compressor is noisy as hell. But what about instrumented air? or basically just a fancy word for sealing your PC components inside a box with a aircon system that keeps it cool by keeping the heat-sink nice and frosty AND it also keeps the air dry so no moisture. It is just... It consumes a lot of power AND your PC end-up looking like a portable aircon Not to mention heavy...  BUT will the tech get smaller more practical" The possibility  does exist...

 

I think the next big thing in PC development will not just be the CPU or APU or GPU or whatever the next... the next BIG THING I think is cooling and noiseless reliable cooling that doesn't need a lot to get going or to keep it going. 

 

So i guess the point of all this is to mine some gray matter how would you cool a PC down? 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading and happy computing

[Enderman]

well linus put one of those micro PCs inside a fridge and it stayed very cool

[TidaLWaveZ]

Watercooling is superior in the way that it transfers heat away from the chip more quickly than air cooling.

 

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

well linus put one of those micro PCs inside a fridge and it stayed very cool

 

The heat has to go somewhere though, so a closed fridge would trap the heat given of by the components.  You could possibly overcome this if you use a watercooler with the radiators mounted outside of the fridge.  This whole idea of using a fridge is kind of a bad solution because the fridge uses a lot of power.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Watercooling is superior in the way that it transfers heat away from the chip more quickly than air cooling.

 

 

The heat has to go somewhere though, so a closed fridge would trap the heat given of by the components.  You could possibly overcome this if you use a watercooler with the radiators mounted outside of the fridge.  This whole idea of using a fridge is kind of a bad solution because the fridge uses a lot of power.

uh, do you know how a fridge works???

it takes the heat from inside and moves it outside...

fridges already have a radiator on the back, thats how they cool the interior tot sub-ambient temps

 

a fridge uses less power than an air conditioner does btw, because its a lot less powerful

[TidaLWaveZ]

No I don't know exactly how a fridge works besides that they use Freon or some garbage like that, but I have researched the idea of cooling a pc via refrigerator.

 

Fridges aren't meant to deal with constant high temperatures being produced inside of them, they work in cycles determined by the temperature inside the fridge.  The heat being put off by the system will cause the fridge's compressor to work extremely hard to keep temperatures low.  This means your compressor will be constantly running as hard as it can to lower temperatures, thus jacking up your electric cost.  If you had a liquid cooler with radiator mounted outside of the refrigerator, it would dispense most heat that way(and quickly) keeping the fridges compressor more at bay.

 

But this doesn't change the fact that being in a refrigerator your system will collect moisture that can destroy your components.

 

[JWMutant]

Personally speaking, I dont see any need for cooling to advance beyond where it is now.

 

New hardware coming out has "Generally" better thermal properties, and better thermal limits.