new form of liquid cooling
 

A fark submission. Imagine this stuff cooling your precious gear.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/041..._sapphire.html

Mhm...saw this on slashdot yesterday.

Now, for the Link Challenged...

And...a Link to the Slashdot post.

:)

that is really cool, if it does what it claims to. I would love to see it in action. Kind of difficult to believe something like this at this time :)

That is some weird shit.

There are some pictures and videos.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/041..._sapphire.html

Click the link above the article.

EDIT: Link fixed

I've been thinking about the possibility of a cooling system that had the system immersed in a watertight box circulating some sort of nonconductive coolant (such as R-134a.) This would be cool to see as a reality without the power drain that refrigerating a computer would cause.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/041..._tankwide.html

a picture slideshow. SM70, your link doesn't work :(

C'mon peole, water-cooling will cease to be uber if you take all the danger out of it !!

It most likely wouldnt work anyways.

The liquid's boiling point is something low, like 110* F. That isnt going to work for liquid cooling--the processor would just boil it off. One would also need to find out the thermal properties of the stuff--how much heat will it hold, and how easy is it to get rid of that heat? This stuff isnt quite the perfect coolant yet...

If the boiling point is really that low, will it even be that effective as a fire extinguisher?

our school has a Halon release system for the servers in the business building. Halon fucks up oxygen (tears it apart or something, don't ask) so that the fires go out automatically, without water. the only problem is that the Halon costs 14,000 bucks everytime it is fully discharged. but hey, look at all the stuff you just saved (computer equipment etc).

They had some compound on the ScreenSavers a few months ago that did this. It was a non-conductive fluid that you immersed the mobo in. They cooled the cpu to below freezing with no problem.

Is that the same stuff they showed like 10 years ago. Stuff used to cool cray supper computers. ?

I had two thoughts: one, if you pour water into this will the water form a sphere in the center of the tank or simply float/sink and two, is the chemical compound of this stuff set so that it only bonds with itself and super tight ?

It probably causes severe and nearly instantaneous cancer in lab rats and will subsequently be banned by the government for all eternity.

Suppose you could hook a few Peltier coolers against a radiator for the fluid and cool it to below its boiling point, but what would the point of that be? Might as well refrigerate the case...

I'd like to see a combination of this stuff with this technology: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=52654

that would make for a sweet submersion system :)

this is really old, i remember they combined some 3m testing fluid with liquid hydrogen a few years ago to cool pc's, first thing I though of when i saw the link on fark, its nothing new
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?cal...ubmersion.html

Then you have the condensation issue.

Halon displaces oxygen, it doesn't do anything to oxygen; it just crowds it out thus suffocating the fire.

My cube is in the server room, if our CO2 system goes off, I get a warning before it goes off and I get suffocated.

Halon is expensive because its manufacture was bannned after it was found to be ozone depleting. However, Halon systems may still be used. They're just not installed anymore.

This is a decent link for more info:

http://www.fssa.net/about/faq.cfm

I use this white powdery stuff to attract all humidity. My family bought it for our cars -- we live in a humid environment -- to attract the water in the air and stop mildew. It works pretty well and not I use it in my computer room.

There's about an 2 ounces of water to pour out of the cup every day.

Ive used that stuff, my uncle worked for dow and he brought home a little container of this white powder one afternoon when i was visiting him, you just ad alcohol (real alcohol, not beer :lol: ) and it turned into this water lookin stuff but you could put it in your pockets and stuff w/o getting wet. it was _GREAT_ for practical jokes.