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Originally posted by bigben2k
I disagree.
I think that heat dissipation is going to be an ever increasing problem, and that water-cooling is the most affordable solution.
A refrigeration unit would only draw a lot of additional power, and that's going to have the EPA ("Energy Star") people up in arms: Can you imagine 100'000 people using a PC with a compressor to keep it cool?!? Yikes! If you thought that that last power blackout was bad...
So the future really, would probably be somewhere in the middle, where the water cooling solution is tuned to the CPU temp. As a guideline, Energy Star requires that a device on stand-by consumes no more than 5% of its max rate.
(Man, I ought to just shut up and market this stuff!!!)
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Well, we havn't even begun to break the ice in CPU development. They will have to start coming up with new designs that do not run as hot and still scale well. Something has to change as the dies can only get so small before nothing you attach will cool it. I think that is half the reason for these heat spreaders. Just a quick fix for the real problem they have yet to solve. In 20 years pocket PC's will have more power than our fastest computer today. They are not going to have water cooling systems attached to those.
Tech will advance past to point to were any of this will be required. Just a matter of time. It is what happens between now and that time that is going to be interesting. I still think heat pipes are going to become a little more popular. hell I seen one for the new vid cards and for hard drives already. Not to mention the one's used in some laptops for a couple years now.
I predict PC are going to make some drastic changes in appearance and size in the not to distant future. Going to be interesting next 20 years.
Also I agree with one of the posts above. Why not just use a good 3GPH mechanical pump that doesn't have 1 micron tubes to clogg up. hell the corrosion off the blocks and rad alone I would think can get bigger then 1 micron.
I don't know though. This is still over my head I guess.