AC powered CPU cooler?

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:23 pm

Wow! What an unusual setup. Anybody using one? Since it uses it's own power supply, it should avoid the usual problems with this type of technology.

icancam · Post by **icancam** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:30 pm

Here's another one in a similar vein. The refrigeration module has a fan and is presumably amenable to being modified to run quietly, The upper case looks conventional and could also be suitably modified. The SilentMaxx ProSilence PCS-350 passive PSU, and a single quiet 80mm case fan, would give an extreme gamer or graphic artist or 3D designer, who wants both speed (4+GHZ) and quiet, an amazing machine. With one of the latest video cards, suitably silenced, it would be a real performer. Here's hoping that somebody with the time, money, and dedication will take this on and tell us all about it!

http://www.nventiv.com/index.php?pageid=43

icancam · Post by **icancam** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:40 pm

Here's something else, not currently available, that points towards the future. This technique promises silence as well as drastic cooling for the ever hotter running CPU's that are being developed. It's an article entitled "Thermal Management of Computer Systems Using Active Cooling of Pulse Tube Refrigerators" and one of the authors appears to be employed by Intel.

http://www.yutopian.net/Yuan/papers/Intel.PDF

Trip · Post by **Trip** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 12:53 am

I just read where CPU got one of their computers down to -47'C! Overclocked to over 4Ghz from a 3.0P4 using the nVENTIV's Mach II that you linked to.

mond · Post by **mond** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 1:00 am

there's a review of the mach at tomshardware http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031021/index.html

Trip · Post by **Trip** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 1:26 am

Wow, it can cool up to 200W! I wonder how quiet it is. CPU mentioned that it was quiet but had a few fans... I guess there'd always be the PSU fan to make noise as well...

Interesting problem with these setups is condensation.

Heh, I wonder if Dell or someone like that will ever come out with something similar for their PCs.

AC powered CPU cooler?

AC powered CPU cooler?

nventiv Prometia Vapor Cooling

Active Cooling of Pulse Tube Refrigerators