Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling 218
unassimilatible writes "Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship. Danamics, a Danish company, claims that its LM-10 outperforms standard air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled systems with a mere 1W power draw. 'The liquid metal is a key component in Danamics cooling systems. Liquid metal has two major advantages when cooling high power density heat sources: Firstly it has superior thermo physical properties that decrease temperature — and temperature non-uniformity — on die and across chips. Secondly, the electrical properties of the liquid metal enables efficient, reliable and ultra compact electromagnetic pumping without the use of moving parts, shafts, seals, etc.' Awesome technology, if it actually works and is affordable. The submitter requests that the moderators terminate all T-1000 jokes."
Poor T-1000 (Score:1, Funny)
No T-1000 jokes, huh, submitter? (Score:5, Funny)
Banned in California? (Score:5, Funny)
Schmoo Schmoo (Score:1, Funny)
Too much of anything can kill you. Water, salt, mercury, oxygen etc etc. They probably use some alloy with an extremely low melting temperature. The article is a bit short on the specifics.
Lets test your theory. I demand you pay several women to sleep with me until I die. We'll see who laughs last!
No T-1000 jokes? (Score:4, Funny)
No liquid metal jokes? (Score:5, Funny)
"That's not liquid metal, that's a mimetic poly alloy!"
"It's as if millions of nano cpus suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced"
"Mime or mime not. There is no try."
"T-1000, I am your mould."
Re:Toxicity? (Score:5, Funny)
I think the liquid metal is their server.
Re:Banned in California? (Score:5, Funny)
I can see the Governator imposing a ban on the import of this product...
Warning:
This product contains chemicals known by the State of California to cause cancer and/or the rise of cyborg assassins bent on enslaving mankind.
We, Denmark (Score:5, Funny)
You give us Bush, Microsoft and Michael Jackson.
Bad deal, Denmark thinks.
Been there, done that (Score:4, Funny)
The cool thing was, power was so cheap (via government subsidies called "grants") that we eventually upgraded the cluster to run a realtime terrain modeling system that was supposed to identify a path through a network of roads that allowed for the highest average speed, given speed limits and road lengths. The terrain modeling part would determine a way to maximize the time spent going downhill.
DARPA initially supported us, and were going to upgrade our status, give us clearances, etc. but they eventually killed our funding after Ford found out we were using a Fiero and complained about our physical safety while operating the system. But man, DARPA know of some *way* cool ghost towns and low-traffic road networks.
The preceding is a work of fiction written by an easily-distracted procrastinator in a severe time crunch
Re: A little reactive? (Score:3, Funny)
Could be worse. Could be cesium [theodoregray.com].
T-1000 isn't made out of metal (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Schmoo Schmoo (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah alright how about her [wikipedia.org]?
Interestingly wikipedia claims she was born aged 55, which explains a lot.
Re:Just add som potassium (Score:3, Funny)
A little reactive? It would burn pretty violently if simply exposed to air, and EXPLODE if it came in contact with water. And either event would produce highly corrosive byproducts.
Where do I sign up?!
Re:Schmoo Schmoo (Score:3, Funny)
How many do you consider to be "several"?
I remember some kind of Sci-Fi movie? show/book? where a group of men were used by the female inhabitants of a planet for sex and pro-creation.
The men aged prematurely, were a husk of their former selves and begged to be released from their ordeal.
Is that what you want?
Re:The obvious choice... (Score:5, Funny)
lol Every stick Bromine+Al?
Your typical Aluminium (Aluminum) heatsink will burn ferociously, spitting white hot molten Al during assembly! hahahahahaha!
"Moderators terminate all T-1000 jokes" (Score:3, Funny)
Don't worry. They'll be back.
Re: A little reactive? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes indeed. That website triggered positively explosive reactions in my retinas. :(
I'll be sending you a bill.
Not a joke. (Score:5, Funny)
"The submitter requests that the moderators terminate all T-1000 jokes."
The only way to do that would be to wait until the thread becomes stale, assess people who made the jokes, and then send back a cybernetic soldier to kill their mothers.
Re:Toxicity? (Score:4, Funny)
Galinstan. One of the lesser known elements of the 'Axis of Evil'!! (Metallic Substances Edition)
Fire ze missiles!
Re:The obvious choice... (Score:3, Funny)
Isn't bromine a type of soup?
Re:Toxicity? (Score:3, Funny)
how about a link to the firefox extension that autolinkifies plain text urls? :)
sheesh!
and thanks
Re:Been there, done that (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just add som potassium (Score:3, Funny)
What he meant was ...
Do not touch the operational end of The Device.
Do not look directly at the operational end of The Device.
Do not submerge The Device in liquid, even partially.
Most importantly, under no circumstances should you-HHhhhHH!
Doing so, will result in an 'unsatisfactory' mark on your official testing record followed by death.