Low cost cooling solution that lasts longer than liquid cooling?

[sithsiri]

Is there a way to cool my CPU other than risking liquid cooling failing or leaking that is not air and low cost?

[TaylorSwiftOrNon]

not that i know of

[Darel321]

no

[Majestic]

Dont you think that would be a commercial succes if it existed?

[roblesaturcamilo]

wait for kinetic cooling, it will be here ''very soon'', as they say at coolchip.com

[manikyath]

i want a cheap car that can fit the entire family, is small so i can park it everywhere, has a strong engine, doesnt use fuel and will never break down.

 

i hope my quite sarcastic comparison properly explains why thats not a thing

[Enderman]

uh

no

liquid and air cooling are the only two consumer options that exist

 

...so buy a heatsink

[swordsman247]

27 minutes ago, sithsiri said:

Is there a way to cool my CPU other than risking liquid cooling failing or leaking that is not air and low cost?

How do you feel about moving to antarctica? 

[deWaardt]

I would say air, but I'm not sure if that's the answer you wanted.

A good quality air cooler will last forever. Metal doesn't just break.

[manikyath]

6 minutes ago, Enderman said:

uh

no

liquid and air cooling are the only two consumer options that exist

 

...so buy a heatsink

well.. one could argue there's a lot of options.

 

but in the end all of them rely on air cooling in the final step, so you may as well just get a tower.

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well.. one could argue there's a lot of options.

 

but in the end all of them rely on air cooling in the final step, so you may as well just get a tower.

such as....?

 

what other consumer cooling options that are not a heatsink or a radiator

[Pepi28]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well.. one could argue there's a lot of options.

 

but in the end all of them rely on air cooling in the final step, so you may as well just get a tower.

yea they do all require air in the end, bu ti would just say that having some liquids in there is pretty cool  ... "cool" #that terrible pun life

[GlassBomb]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well.. one could argue there's a lot of options.

 

but in the end all of them rely on air cooling in the final step, so you may as well just get a tower.

I personally prefer air coolers, since there are fewer parts that can fail.

 

So that is the route I would go for if I was the OP. No risk of leaking liquids, and even if the only moving part (fan) fail, the tower is still there to provide cooling.

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

such as....?

 

what other consumer cooling options that are not a heatsink or a radiator

well..  the subzero build linus did a while back for example.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, GlassBomb said:

I personally prefer air coolers, since there are fewer parts that can fail.

 

So that is the route I would go for if I was the OP. No risk of leaking liquids, and even if the only moving part (fan) fail, the tower is still there to provide cooling.

a block of metal cant really "fail" during operation, and everything that can fail (as in the fans) can actually be replaced while the machine is up and running, and pretty much not even needing to close down the running applications.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well..  the subzero build linus did a while back for example.

so phase change?

thats not consumer cooling, and thats still a form of "cooling with a radiator"

[manikyath]

Just now, Enderman said:

so phase change?

thats not consumer cooling, and thats still a form of "cooling with a radiator"

well, when looking at it in a really simplistic way, phase change is watercooling on steroids

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well, when looking at it in a really simplistic way, phase change is watercooling on steroids

yeah

i havent heard of any other ways of cooling that dont involve a heatsink or radiator other than:

 

some weird server prototype thing where you put the entire rack in a non-conductive fluid and let it boil which then cools at the top of a chamber and returns as cooled fluid

[Djole123]

I'd say put a massive copper heatsink on the CPU. What's your CPU?

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

yeah

i havent heard of any other ways of cooling that dont involve a heatsink or radiator other than:

 

some weird server prototype thing where you put the entire rack in a non-conductive fluid and let it boil which then cools at the top of a chamber and returns as cooled fluid

there's also systems where instead of a heatsink all components are just touching the outer wall directly or indirectly and the outer wall is being cooled by the elements around it. (example being those underwater server things in the news a while back)

[Enderman]

35 minutes ago, manikyath said:

there's also systems where instead of a heatsink all components are just touching the outer wall directly or indirectly and the outer wall is being cooled by the elements around it. (example being those underwater server things in the news a while back)

yeah thats what a heatsink is

just a passive heatsink instead of active

[manikyath]

28 minutes ago, Enderman said:

yeah thats what a heatsink is

just a passive heatsink instead of active

well, i guess the term is "heat spreader"

 

and the key to this topic is that this is implemented for scenarios where there's no "air"

hence, not "air" cooling.

 

well, i guess that's OP's answer: he could toss his computer in the ocean

[Enderman]

24 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well, i guess the term is "heat spreader"

 

and the key to this topic is that this is implemented for scenarios where there's no "air"

hence, not "air" cooling.

 

well, i guess that's OP's answer: he could toss his computer in the ocean

any piece of metal that touches a CPU is considered a heatsink

[Infin8]

It sounds like air-cooler is the best you can get in terms of low-cost and reliability. What is the Reason you do not want to air-cool? 

[manikyath]

23 minutes ago, Enderman said:

any piece of metal that touches a CPU is considered a heatsink

"its a heatsink"