Purdue researchers want tiny refrigerators cooling your PC
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Filed under: Desktops, Peripherals
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Matthew Hilario @ Jul 24th 2008 7:38PM
they're using little penguins.
that's how it's done in the fridge.
trust me i've seen it in a cartoon.
ryan @ Jul 24th 2008 7:09PM
"a ways'
OneLove @ Jul 25th 2008 1:37PM
I was just thinking about that a couple of days ago, but what about condensation?
OneLove @ Jul 25th 2008 1:38PM
@Matthew Hilario: how did you get a reply without a comment?
JD @ Jul 24th 2008 7:10PM
god, i have been watching this site for 15 mins,
well de rank me
I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jul 25th 2008 12:04AM
You heard him boys, mark him down!
ddub @ Jul 25th 2008 5:29PM
I guess you needed to be more specific when you said "him".
I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jul 28th 2008 4:55AM
I never said me...
Vernon de Thierry @ Jul 24th 2008 7:13PM
Build them into a Eee and I might just buy one... NOT!!!
Pochi @ Jul 24th 2008 7:25PM
Your buying habits are FASCINATING!
JohnTitor @ Jul 24th 2008 8:11PM
well there is an eeeRefrigerator coming out soon
andres @ Jul 24th 2008 7:13PM
you have just used up all your firsts for the rest of your engadget days. never again are you allowed to post first
andres @ Jul 24th 2008 7:56PM
original comment deleted. crap
rita @ Jul 24th 2008 7:14PM
they are also developing tiny tiny beers to go in it.
Danakin @ Jul 24th 2008 7:15PM
Purdue Rocks! I'm'ma be a freshman in 1 month!
Boiler Up!
http://torrentfreak.com/purdue-university-launches-p2p-network-to-bypass-riaa-080415/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/riaa-lists-top-25-universities-handing-out-piracy-notices/
Steffen Jobbs @ Jul 24th 2008 9:24PM
That's a great school. I always enjoyed eating their chicken parts. Their oven-roasters weren't bad either. Give my regards to Frank.
scott @ Jul 24th 2008 9:47PM
Steffen..stfu. and danakin, i attend purdue, you're gonna love it. come by sigma pi and ask for scott, i'll show you around campus, or answer any questions you might have =)
BOILER UP!!!!
BTFU
Marcus @ Jul 24th 2008 7:20PM
Now you can store your coke inside the computer! Sign me up.
roro2210 @ Jul 24th 2008 7:24PM
bad day jd? nice way to vent your anger
David D @ Jul 24th 2008 7:26PM
Sounds sweet, now to make a cupholder that also runs off of your computer using this... It really would be pretty nice.
mackid105 @ Jul 25th 2008 12:48AM
give it a week tops and someone will have a mod that does that you watch
Pochi @ Jul 24th 2008 7:28PM
They have these odd 5 1/4 bay air conditioner units for PCs right now, it seems...
http://www.overclockers.com/articles1233/
But... well, A/C needs a place for water to go (right?) so this may be the superior solution.
Graham @ Jul 24th 2008 7:29PM
What a waste of food and water
Pochi @ Jul 24th 2008 8:21PM
You have obviously stumbled upon the wrong website! Here, I'll get you to where you're obviously supposed to be going.
http://www.children.org/
Graham @ Jul 24th 2008 8:40PM
Nah, i was replying to a guys comment who was a buncha spam, meaning he was a waste of food and water. But the comment got deleted so mine looks very out of place.
granny down east @ Jul 24th 2008 11:27PM
Graham, did you ever get over to MCAS Cherry Point?
Pochi @ Jul 25th 2008 12:21AM
OH. Yeah Engadget needs to delete the entire damn thread when they do crap like that.
Look, I said "obviously" two times in one comment before.
Gross.
DB @ Jul 24th 2008 7:29PM
i want one for my 360. haha
Good_Bytes @ Jul 24th 2008 7:32PM
Won't that create condensation?
Decoy @ Jul 24th 2008 8:45PM
The best comment so far. We rank the worng people sometimes.
scott @ Jul 24th 2008 9:51PM
I'm sure our engineers have thought of that.
CarrotAndStick @ Jul 25th 2008 7:12AM
It won't create condensation in the critical areas because, unlike a refrigerator, the purpose of this device is not to cool things down to below room temperature (that's when condensation occurs) but to prevent the processor and other components from rising significantly above its ideal working temperature, which is a good couple of degrees above room temperature.
The idea is to keep the processor "cool" as in, say 45 degrees Celsius, and not to keep it cold.
Jason @ Jul 25th 2008 9:06PM
Right, but how does this technique end up being superior than peltiers? Any solution is going to generate excess heat in some location. Perhaps this one moves the heat generation elsewhere, but it seems (at least in the picture) to involve bulky plastic wires and things.
The article goes on to say that 'The best that all other cooling methods can achieve is to cool the chip down to ambient temperature'. Though you have to solve condensation issues, I can't imagine that statement being remotely true.
Chris @ Jul 24th 2008 7:37PM
"Which would hopefully boost cooling performance while enabling computers to be smaller."
Actually, continually improving processors do that and they don't introduce unnecessary cost and complication.
DopplerRadar @ Jul 24th 2008 7:45PM
Actually, you're an idiot.
ryan @ Jul 24th 2008 7:40PM
"Honey, I shrunk the refrigerator!"
Sudo @ Jul 24th 2008 7:43PM
Just hope you don't blow it up when it's already in your computer.
hiko36 @ Jul 24th 2008 7:47PM
Great. So when my system develops a refrigerant leak I have to pay a horribly overpaid technician to service it. Wonderful...
Nightmare @ Jul 24th 2008 7:57PM
My Xbox just sits next to the a/c unit. no red rings of death for me
swmarc @ Jul 24th 2008 8:16PM
I don't know why someone hasn't done this sooner all a fridge is a compressor that uses a gas that cools when it expands shouldn't be too hard to miniaturize .
kakapo @ Jul 24th 2008 8:19PM
Whatever you do, do not (I repeat - DO NOT) download the photo from the Purdue website... the guy in the blue shirt is in the middle of a very bad hair day.
On topic: this type cooling has been around for over 100 years and its predecessor has been around since the 1860s... and it's CARNOT efficiency is about 13-18%... not the best but as the article says it beats air cooled radiant type of heat dissipation.
There are other methods that are "in chip" - cool to about 1 degree C above absolute and convert the thermal gain to electricity but that's a whole nuther topic!
malaeum @ Jul 24th 2008 9:52PM
+1 to you sir for knowing of thermalelectrics, some day they will hopefully be another major game-changer in many aspects of our lives.
Arley23 @ Jul 24th 2008 8:20PM
LOL I'm going to Purdue in about 2 years for college
greygabe @ Jul 24th 2008 8:39PM
Commenting from a Purdue dorm - woot
Some day Engadget will do a story on the amazing Purdue underwater robot (just started being made - I'm on the team)
OneLove @ Jul 25th 2008 1:42PM
how big are her boobs?
NoAndThen @ Jul 24th 2008 9:01PM
just a thought, but don't refrigerators put off a significant amount of heat from the back of them? sounds like an issue for an enclosed tower to me..
but hey, that's what millions of research dollars are for, right?
nh @ Jul 25th 2008 6:29AM
Correct. All refrigerators output more heat than they take away. But so do fans, so if you could make a refrigerator more efficent than a fan it would work.
Or make it more efficient at losing heat to the environment, by having a larger or hotter area on the outer surface.
bartoron @ Jul 24th 2008 9:08PM
That's a techie Indian guy, not a homeless Indian guy.
Harrison @ Jul 24th 2008 9:16PM
As long as they keep the avocado green away, I'll bite.
Striker @ Jul 24th 2008 9:20PM
As long as they stay the hell away from my computer, I'm fine with it.
/sarcasm