Cooling

[caravel]

I'm getting a 404 here?

[Husar]

Haha, I saw a TV report about that some months ago but I personally think it's a bit of a mess especially when upgrading(and when you want to sell your old hardware to someone else).

[TosaInu]

That may be a temporary not available Caravel, the URL works.

A few years ago there was a joking topic in some forum about watercooling: a guy said without laughing that he sealed his case and filled it to the brim with water. I think the board got an extra 10,000 hits every day, including upset people that this was very dangerous. Some saw the joke though and made it more absurd by saying he should better use petrol as that wasn't corrosive.

It's interesting to see this now. Also read the article about extreme oc and nitrogen cooling again. It's a good thing that Intel/AMD manage to make their CPU's smarter and thus more powerful without skyrocketing the powerconsumption and thus the impractical cooling requirements (not to mention the environment). This coolingproblem may become yet another motivation to split the CPU again. I guess it's easier to cool two 'smaller' seperate sockets/CPU than one. You could say that this is already achieved by the GPU(s).

[Husar]

Well, the GPUs do seem to get warmer and warmer and use more and more energy unlike CPUs where all that is being reduced lately.
I wonder whether one can keep the fans running inside that soup.
If you have a Pentium D, maybe you can supply everybody on a LAN with french fries...