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That ignores the fact that heat has to be radiated somewhere, otherwise the water just heats up. You're only moving the problem, not eliminating it.
by jki275 7y ago
That ignores the fact that heat has to be radiated somewhere, otherwise the water just heats up. You're only moving the problem, not eliminating it.
- jzoch 7y agothats how cooling works...energy can neither be created nor destroyed
- abakker 7y agoIf you move the heat away from a small area quickly, you can easily spread the heat out into a MUCH bigger radiator which will cool more efficiently with air. A nice water cooling loop effectively increases the radiating surface area, with a nice side effect that it moves the heat further away from the rest of the computer.
- BubRoss 7y agoIt doesn't ignore that at all, the whole point is to move the heat from the tiny CPU to a big radiator with a lot of surface area. Air is a terrible conductor of heat compared to water, which pales in comparison to metal, but even metal doesn't move heat as well as flowing water.