World's First Powerless Air Cooler on a Motherboard!

http://www.tweaktown.com Taipei, Taiwan -- Micro-Star International (MSI), one of the leaders in motherboard technology, will bring new life to old technology with new concept on motherboard products. While everybody is looking forward to have a more ECO friendly design, more motherboard makers are trying to save energy on the motherboard side with PWM design, MSI already has very efficient power design, but we research more than only PWM design enhancement, trying to offer the total ECO solution we now give you the heat transfer power concept on motherboard cooler design!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MSI
• Stirling
• Engine
• Theory

[syndrome95]

Excellent idea. It occured to me that you could power a stirling engine with CPU heat.

Not expensive at all really just tricky to machine for a hobbist with limited resorces.

Would make a lovely Steam Punk computer.

Dont listen to anyone who isnt impressed. They are missing the point. I could go on at length about such bad attitudes but whats the point.

[frollard]

My only qualm is that if you are using the heatpipes to remove the heat to the heatsink, that will extract a lot of juice from the stirling side of the mechanism, potentially stalling it - the faster the sterling runs, the better the heatpipe works, the worse the sterling works.

[GammaSouljah]

@feuchter

I did not say that. i said it will never drive the fan at more power than its effectively giving out in heat energy. this does not mean that is not transferring enough energy into the fan so that it does not over heat its just not as efficient from a cooling perspective as using a fan with it own power source as the CPU will run at a lower temperature giving it longer life and better performance. So it will run the CPU hotter than a fan with its own power source.

[feuchster]

@GammaSouljah So you are saying a fanless cpu cooler makes the cpu hotter? Your thought process is off... sorry.

[dra6o0n]

The Stirling engine is 200 years old you know...

There might be ways to incorporate this into a cpu cooler without needing the cpu to get too hot, because as it shows, if the cpu is constantly 60 degrees Celsius or higher, you are ruining the processor's life span.

[ranyerebrc]

Where can I buy one of these equipment?

[taejamhaha]

This needs a very heat sensitive material in order to function below 20 degrees celsius

[cheapshotdrummer]

I see only 1 problem with this design: The cpu would have to be WAY too hot to propagate enough steam or hot fast expanding gas to have that fan turn anywhere NEAR fast enough....

[cheapshotdrummer]

@cfsapper You're so hard to impress.... XD

[fight360uk]

wow ^^

[neardood1]

that is pretty cool, i'd just like to see it work

[GammaSouljah]

People the laws of thermodynamics prevent the fan from every producing more cooling energy than it gets in heat energy from the cpu. so it will never over cool the cpu down from the energy it gets from it.

But to be honest i think this is totally pointless your never going to overclock the cpu with this. ;)