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Phase change sounds a lot cooler then what the article was trying to put forth. Dielectric liquid cooled computers have been around a long time. I even did my
by ScotterC 14y ago
Phase change sounds a lot cooler then what the article was trying to put forth.
Dielectric liquid cooled computers have been around a long time. I even did my capstone project my senior year taking a 3M dielectric fluid and attempting to make a liquid cooled laptop.
What's always forgotten is you have to move the heat farther then you think. Dielectric fluids are great for getting the heat off the cpu but then where do you move it to? In my project we tried to use the back of the laptop monitor to be a large surface area for natural convention. Boiling is much cooler (literally).
Laptop of course wouldn't work out because imagine trying to manufacture those things at scale! Also, these fluids when they evaporate aren't exactly kind to the atmosphere.