Magnetic fields could super-cool your gaming PC, nuclear reactors

[Youbetternot]

What did he say 'Magnetic fields" super cooling a PC? Yes indeed I said Magnetic Fields could supercool your PC, so this happen because a group of researches taught about it and said, well when you press down food on the pan the heat from the metal is transfer to the heat, which means pushing down makes the pan/metal cooler. So they want to use strong magnetic field and a flood of metal nanoparticles, to make liquid cooling systems many times more effective. So the basic idea is, if you flood a coolant with a slurry of magnetic nanoparticles, then subject that suspension to a magnetic field, the nanoparticles can help affect the flow of the whole fluid, helping to make cooling more effective. Read more if your interested in the article

 

 

As any good chef knows, mechanical stress aids the transfer of thermodynamic energy in a closed system. They employ this knowledge every time they press an ingredient down into a pan or grill, greatly increasing the efficiency of heat transfer from metal to food. We usually see that interaction exclusively from one perspective, that of using the pan to add heat to the food. But it would be just as accurate to say that we are using the food to remove heat from the pan — and by pressing it down we assist it in “cooling” the metal. Now a team of researchers are using this fundamental fact, along with a strong magnetic field and a flood of metal nanoparticles, to make liquid cooling systems many times more effective.

The basic premise is fairly simple: if you flood a coolant with a slurry of magnetic nanoparticles, then subject that suspension to a magnetic field, the nanoparticles can help affect the flow of the whole fluid, helping to make cooling more effective. It’s a basic enough idea that it can scale to virtually any size for an applicable type of cooling rig. Anything cooled by a liquid is an immediate candidate — and to continue advancing at such a pace, more and more of our technology will require a heat-sink fluid more efficient than air.

Creating the magnetic field will get much more expensive at larger scales however, and this tech could be suited to miniaturization by decreasing the volume of liquid necessary to cool a particular heat source. These nanoparticles are made of magnetite, though, the most powerfully magnetic of all naturally occurring minerals; they do provide enough magnetic grip even for large jobs like cooling nuclear reactors.

source: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171404-magnetic-fields-could-super-cool-your-gaming-pc-nuclear-reactors

 

[Askew]

Watercooling is effective enough IMO.

[TheRoss0411]

Watercooling is effective enough IMO.

Air cooling is effective enough IMO

[FloRolf]

Watercooling is effective enough IMO.

nothing is ever effective enough...

[miyabwah]

All the Jiggahurtz evar!

[megadarkwood]

Air cooling is effective enough IMO

 

 

Watercooling is effective enough IMO.

Phase change is effective enough IMO..

 

On topic, aren't magnets bad for your pc?

[Askew]

Air cooling is effective enough IMO

 

It is for what I require, but the extreme people are using Liquid Nitrogen to cool stuff enough for what they require, and then there are the Phase Change coolers being used also, I think that knocking a few degrees off the temps on a water loop isn't going to bring it into the ballpark for the next stage of enthusiast use, or the water would freeze.

[Youbetternot]

Watercooling is effective enough IMO.

The good part is that it is more effective, which gives cooler temperature and according to the article makes you use less resource by decreasing the volume of liquid necessary to cool a heat source aka your cpu.

 

decreasing the volume of liquid necessary to cool a particular heat source.

 

[Osmium]

It will be awhile before we see this stuff. I am certain the nuclear reactors are much higher on the "intended users" list.

[Stonep11]

Depending on how miniature this can be we could be looking a a reveloution in the mobile, tablet, laptop world. I also see this being huge for large scale industrial cooling. I have to say though, I am unsure of how well and electromagnetic field based cooler would be inside a computer. Also, I feel like water cooling will still hang around, if anything for the looks.

[Agons]

oh yea, just what I want, a nice magnetic field inside my PC next to my RAM, SSD's and HDD's, sounds like a top notch idea!

[ForsakenLive]

oh yea, just what I want, a nice magnetic field inside my PC next to my RAM, SSD's and HDD's, sounds like a top notch idea!

You could say the same for water cooling.

However if the magnet is not powerful enough and well isolated from the data, it could be a efficient way.