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Transferring heat with a smaller fan requires less power to run the fan. For a given amount of electricity, the Sandia Cooler can extract more heat from the pro
by capnrefsmmat 14y ago
Transferring heat with a smaller fan requires less power to run the fan. For a given amount of electricity, the Sandia Cooler can extract more heat from the processor, so it requires less electricity to keep the processor cool.
- tedunangst 14y ago7% of the electricity in a data center goes to spinning CPU fans? I do not believe that.
- rosser 14y agoNot just CPU fans. FTFA, and the latter part of which was included in the GP's quote: "an ideal replacement for just about every fan-and-heatsink installation in the world... For the most part, these savings would come from air conditioning and refrigeration systems..."
- tedunangst 14y agoI know, I read that. The impression I got from the article was that these new heatsinks were going to be used on the CPUs and that somehow that would generate less heat. e.g, if Intel makes a lower power chip, a lot of savings will come from AC, even though Intel isn't making AC systems. It was not obvious to me (and I still have my doubts) that "every fan-and-heatsink" was referring to AC systems as well as CPU heatsinks.