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Chips cooled with noise

@ 2008/01/29

LIQUID COOLING of computer chips and other heat intensive technology can be boosted by blasting sound waves at the coolant.

The New Scientist reports that researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with sound enhanced liquid cooling.

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/01/30

what sound pressure are we talking about?

Comment from wutske @ 2008/01/29

1kHz, must be annoying to hear that sine wave all day long

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Another way to use sound for cooling stuff stuff: http://www.aip.org/dbis/IEEE/stories/14171.html

Comment from Kougar @ 2008/01/29

Intriguing... also sounds like the sound waves are solving that laminar flow issue that waterblocks design intentional turbulence into the flow to try and counteract.

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