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MSI Ecolution Motherboard
[quote]MSI is making thier ECOlution motherboard to showcase at CeBIT. The mobo comes with an “air powered coolerâ€
MSI transforms chip heat into cooler power
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The most interesting part of this idea is that temperature based fan speed control is inherent to the device. I wonder how cost effective it would really be to do this for individual chip sets, though. It seems like a better implementation might be to connect multiple components to a single Stirling engine/HSF via heat pipes -- basically, like a water cooling implementation.
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Stirling engine aren't that effective. Depeding on chip's heat, its effectiveness is 15% max in theory, while in practise its effectiveness would roughly like 10%.
When MSI tells it could transfer 70% heat into motion energy, that's BS, since cars combustion engines run 25% to 35% effectiveness... If MSI could make 70% effective Stirlingengine, they would win a Nobel Prize...
When MSI tells it could transfer 70% heat into motion energy, that's BS, since cars combustion engines run 25% to 35% effectiveness... If MSI could make 70% effective Stirlingengine, they would win a Nobel Prize...
MSI probably mean 70% of max Stirling efficiency so 70% of 15% is 10.5%, like you said.When MSI tells it could transfer 70% heat into motion energy, that's BS, since cars combustion engines run 25% to 35% effectiveness... If MSI could make 70% effective Stirlingengine, they would win a Nobel Prize...
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