Wriggling Heat Sinks

YourHero writes "Purdue researchers have come up with a new way to cool chips, in about 2 years. Just build a bunch of little piezoelectric fans (the waving kind, not the spinning kind). Since they don't spin, no bearings, less self-generated heat. Since they don't have magnets, no electromagnetic noise problems. And, of course, super-efficient. A press release and abstract for your reading pleasure. Formal presentation at THERMES 2002 Jan 15th."

bye bye

[MrGHemp]

sounds like you'd just be waving the heat bye bye

awe come on...

[spacefem]

Doesn't anybody think it's cool to be noisy anymore? I mean, say what you will about being distracting and all that, but I'd love to impress my friends with a PC that sounds like a lawnmower. it's POWER! it's TOUGH! it's AMERICAN!

sometimes worrying about things like noise is too girly, even for me.

Time to revise the overclockers manual

[Henry V .009]

This is just an excuse for designers to make CPU's less efficent and more power hungry.

Imagine

Washington Post: Dec 13, 2018. Details are now emerging about the accident that irradiated much of Germany on Tuesday. Nothing is as yet confirmed, however, initial reports indicate that a heatsink was somehow removed from an AMD processor (PR rating 10,000,000). A bizzare terrorist group with the initials THG may have been involved. Containment was lost, and critical mass was reached almost immediately. AMD representatives have issued a statement in the wake of the carnage: "Obviously, they were using an improperly designed motherboard."

Old school fan uprising!!!

[BigBir3d]

What are the chances of the conventional ball bearing fans, in the very computers that are doing all the mathematical modeling, will go on strike??

Self-preservation is quite a motivator.

2 years?

[minusthink]

Purdue researchers have come up with a new way to cool chips, in about 2 years.

I don't know what kind of chips these researchers are using, but the kind I use build up heat a lot faster, and thus need to be cooled constantly, not just every two years.

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