Sidney | 4th August 2005 19:10 | Liquid metal is so cool it may be on ice The new technology seems to have great potential. The actual liquid metal alloy in question is a a cocktail of gallium and indium with a dash of tin. It flows freely at temperatures as low as 10 degrees centigrade. The exotic material's thermal conductivity, an astounding 65 times that of water (1600 times better than air), means it should be able to whisk heat away from hot graphics chips instantly.
The metal is then pumped through tubes, similar to water cooling systems, and the heat dissipated via a radiator at one end of the card. There's another remarkably cool thing about it: because it's a metal, it can be pumped around the loop magnetically – so the pump has no moving parts, and is silent. http://theinquirer.net/?article=25164 |