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Extreme water cooling
schmitt trigger:
The Cray 2 Supercomputer utilized Fluorinert liquid cooling back in the mid 1980s
However, because of its harmful atmospheric effects, I ignore whether it is still available.
TimFox:
The CDC 6600 had a pressure gauge on the front panel to monitor the Freon refrigeration system.
c64:
--- Quote from: ChristofferB on August 10, 2020, 07:31:27 am ---I dont think it's so much heat sinks being worse while submerged as much as the fluid (air or liquid) being still, as opposed to a forced flow
--- End quote ---
Actually, I was thinking about no heat sinks at all. Just water
Berni:
--- Quote from: c64 on August 11, 2020, 07:19:01 am ---
--- Quote from: ChristofferB on August 10, 2020, 07:31:27 am ---I dont think it's so much heat sinks being worse while submerged as much as the fluid (air or liquid) being still, as opposed to a forced flow
--- End quote ---
Actually, I was thinking about no heat sinks at all. Just water
--- End quote ---
It would work if you live on Mount Everest where the boiling point of water is about 70°C. But at sea level in normal air pressure nope.
EDIT: Unless you are cooling something like a reasonably power saving laptop CPU or one of those low clocked low power binned Intel desktop chips. Those might produce so little heat that it works. But then again you can cool these CPUs without even using a fan if the heatsink is fairly big.
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