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sandman · 04-12-2004, 12:03 AM

I geuss it isn't really direct die, but it was the best word for it I thought.

A few people did this with Athlon XP's, but eventually the water saturated the silicon and shorted the cpu out from the inside. Namely the cache, so they tended to die after a few weeks/months of use. So, people stopped doing it.

But, now that CPU's have heatspreaders, it seems perfect. You could just cut some small grooves on the heatspreader to increase surface area, and you wouldn't have to worry about the water shorting out the cpu because there'd be a peice of copper there.

It's just an idea, but what do you think?

04-12-2004, 12:03 AM	#1
sandman Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 50	direct die cool a heatspreader I geuss it isn't really direct die, but it was the best word for it I thought. A few people did this with Athlon XP's, but eventually the water saturated the silicon and shorted the cpu out from the inside. Namely the cache, so they tended to die after a few weeks/months of use. So, people stopped doing it. But, now that CPU's have heatspreaders, it seems perfect. You could just cut some small grooves on the heatspreader to increase surface area, and you wouldn't have to worry about the water shorting out the cpu because there'd be a peice of copper there. It's just an idea, but what do you think?