Full immersion cooling dips up
HARDCORE COMPUTER, the US based system maker says it has launched its Reactor line of premium systems, complete with a full-immersion cooling desktop system.
The system purportedly based on LGA775 motherboards and featuring Nvidia’s Nforce 790i Ultra chipset even allows triple SLI, dissipating heat with special heatsinks to disperse the heat into a coolant, then cooled with a radiator.
The 'dielectric cooling liquid' is completely non-conductive and can even be made up of liquids like soybean oil. The liquid fills a contained space which includes the circuit boards and a pump. The pump pushes the hot fluid through a heat exchanger after which the liquid flows down a cooling path, only to re-enter the closed space again. The circuit apparently takes only 30 seconds and apparently works so much better than just regular air that heavy overclocking can be pre applied.
Hardcore Computer claims it designed the entire system from the ground up, including the patented coolant, and aims to sell Reactors at around $4000 - $5000. The systems will apparently be available internationally and users will be able to buy them with Core 2 Quad QX9770 processors clocked at 4.2GHz.
Cool, if you can afford it. µ
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Fully immersed, yeah. With tubing and a pump and a radiator. For $6000.
If it's just watercooling, I was doing that for CPU-GPU-chipset back in 2002. Cost me around €350 at the time.
Pascal Monett, you're an idiot. Please refrain from posting smug comments in the future.
It's astonishing that with Google, Wikipedia and the like, there are still such imprudent comments.
And completely non-conductive! Such as distilled water?
I think this is more akin to the mineral oil experiments Toms Hardware was doing back in the late 90s or the cooking oil rigs the DKs were doing a few years ago. It's alot different than water but requires a ton of maintenance on the liquid. Perhaps they've solved the problems of coolant going "bad" and evaporating by using a fully closed circuit? Anyways, interesting but not really original idea, and certainly not worth the 6000$ they charge (although I've love to fire up 16.8GHZ of CPU goodness).