Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship. Danamics, a Danish company, claims that its LM-10 outperforms standard air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled systems with a mere 1W power draw. 'The liquid metal is a key component in Danamics cooling systems. Liquid metal has two major advantages when cooling high power density heat sources: Firstly it has superior thermo physical properties that decrease temperature — and temperature non-uniformity — on die and across chips. Secondly, the electrical properties of the liquid metal enables efficient, reliable and ultra compact electromagnetic pumping without the use of moving parts, shafts, seals, etc.' Awesome technology, if it actually works and is affordable. The submitter requests that the moderators terminate all T-1000 jokes.
da_ripper wrote:What liquid metal will they use?
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Now equipped standard with adamantium scale armour.
Well, not that.
*queue laughter from those in the know about Adamantium's properties*
ha ha, no thats part of my sig. :Lol:
um that liquid metal in the link doesn't sound ideal. I somehow don't think i want it my pc. It seems to behave weirdly to glass and possibly other metals from what i understand
considering aggressivity doesn't mean anything i suppose it'll be fine lol..
also, how much can it cost considering the size of a heatsink!? surely the metal will be within a 'container' of some sort made of a different material and there won't be all that much of it anyway... certain 'items' are more expensive than their own weight in gold, so i highly doubt this stuff/thing will be anything in that region. furthermore so if they aim it at the wider spectrum of the market, us, which they say they are...
ROFL yea, i still want one thou, just to try out, but you cant tell me an awsome water loop cant be better...
Not a chance, the temp delta of a watercooled system (Not thermaltake, something decent (Not even to talk about a full D-Tek/Thermochill setup)) will be a lot smaller than anything on air.
It says can beat standard air cooling and some watercooling. Unless they're talking about high flow triplerad systems with proper blocks and 1/2" tube I'll be impressed. If they're talking about sub R1,000 fong-kong kits made in N korea or rural China (and some of the older TT products) I'll understand. I very much doubt it will beat the thermalrite air cooling.
If it's small and silent it will be a good option for media centre PCs / low power devices like notebooks, PDAs and cell phones.
haha you can beat 6x 120mm fans.
