Sandia's brilliant, hyper-efficient CPU cooler

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The Sandia Cooler was hands-down one of the cleverest new bits of computer hardware we'd seen when it was introduced a year ago, and according to a new video posted by Sandia National Labs, the design has been refined to the point where it's been licensed out to electronics manufacturers keen to make a 30x more efficient CPU cooler.
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This is pretty interesting, I'm curious if you could use it in a vertical state or if you would have to use a horizontal tower?
 
I'd like to see some actual testing data, but it looks and sounds pretty sweet.
 
SpykerX07 said:
This is pretty interesting, I'm curious if you could use it in a vertical state or if you would have to use a horizontal tower?
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I think they said it can be used at any angle.It uses magnetics i think to self correct where it's at.
 
So it's like a crossblow fan? I am having a really hard time believing this is "30x more efficient" (whatever that means in reality).

Why is the video about people talking about industries and labs and shit? There's hardly anything about the actual thing.
 
HeatSurge said:
So it's like a crossblow fan? I am having a really hard time believing this is "30x more efficient" (whatever that means in reality).

Why is the video about people talking about industries and labs and shit? There's hardly anything about the actual thing.
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It's not some rinky dink operation though. This is a government lab that designed this. Government R&D people are not known for their well design advertisement videos. If you look at some of the DOD procurement videos for new military tech, some of them are downright cheesy. But yah, look at some of their areas of focus:
Sandia National Laboratories: Exceptional Service in the National Interest

  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Energy
  • Counter Terrorism
  • Climate
  • Infrastructure
  • Homeland Security
  • Nuclear Nonproliferation
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Some pretty heavy stuff there. I couldn't imagine a more legit source. Here are some questions the inventor answered from curious geeks.

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...tsink-your-questions-answered-by-the-inventor

And here's the white paper if you wanna get deep into it

http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2010/100258.pdf
 
Ya, the video BOT originally posted was more about the company. This one is more about the design. I'd like to believe you could put this in your case, but I still think you'd have to have the motherboard horizontal otherwise you would wear that bearing down, but I guess it would be kind of similar to the vertical fans which eventually do wear over time but I don't know.



[video=youtube;JWQZNXEKkaU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JWQZNXEKkaU[/video]
 
Nevermind, here's the top comments on youtube.


I'd like to see this thing running on its side.

himselfe 3 days ago 51


It's already been discussed, it can run in any orientation.

Goldfire86788 in reply to himselfe 2 days ago 27
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SpykerX07 said:
Ya, the video BOT originally posted was more about the company. This one is more about the design. I'd like to believe you could put this in your case, but I still think you'd have to have the motherboard horizontal otherwise you would wear that bearing down, but I guess it would be kind of similar to the vertical fans which eventually do wear over time but I don't know.



[video=youtube;JWQZNXEKkaU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JWQZNXEKkaU[/video]
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I'd really suggest reading the Q&A link I posted. There are some really in-depth questions in there that cover almost every major concern people have had.

Q: Does the air bearing heat exchanger only work in a horizontal orientation? Or are other angles possible?

JK: As discussed in the white paper, a downward restoring force many times that of the gravitational force acting on the mass of the heat-sink-impeller is generated by attractive interaction of the permanent magnet rotor and the high magnetic permeability stator. For this reason the device can operate in any orientation and the air gap varies little as a function of orientation angle.
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Thats pretty cool, I'll check out that link later, Gamin right now :P But I'd like to test that thing out and see how efficient it really is.
 
damn, totally forgot about the Q&A, must have been really sleepy when i first read this thread.
 
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