Dropping Science: New Tech Discoveries : Chillin’ With Your PC

By Kate Gammon , published on November 5, 2008 at 1:30 AM
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It’s a fact of life: working with computers can get you pretty hot. Researchers from Purdue University want to help you stay chilled out with tiny fridge systems that will fit inside laptops and PCs in the future. They say their cooling system will make it possible to pack more computing power into a smaller package. Today, most computers are cooled with fans that circulate air through heat sinks that attach to computer chips. Pint-sized refrigerators can blast much more coolness than the conventional method, especially since the researchers predict that souped-up future computers will produce 10 times more heat than current models. As Paris Hilton would say, that’s hot!
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HumbleOpiner 11/05/2008 9:49 AM
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To the best of my knowledge the pterodactyle was a reptile, not specifically a dinosaur.

zodiacfml 11/05/2008 9:58 AM
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nah, still has to dump that heat in the environment with that micro fridge. could be using a bigger radiator or sink

smalltime0 11/05/2008 10:03 AM
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"Pint-sized refrigerators can blast much more coolness that the conventional method"
You dont move 'cool energy' you remove heat.

poO_onyou 11/06/2008 6:28 AM
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Boiler Up!

WheelsOfConfusion 11/06/2008 8:23 AM
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Hmm, I wonder if the "red LED" used to study those wrinkles was your typical high-efficiency InGaAlP version.

zipmaster07 11/07/2008 1:02 AM
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Ahh so many items that I could care less about. Not that they aren't important, I just know I'll probably never hear about anyone of these ever again. :)

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