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A heat-sink and fan in one. Meaning the heat-sink is the fan and spins while hovering above the CPU. They say it's 30x more efficient.
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Your typical air cooling setup for a processor consists of a heatsink and fan configuration. The heatsink draws the heat away from the chip, and the fan sits on top sucking the heat away from the heatsink and out of the case. It’s a setup that has been in use for decades, but has its limitations and can be very noisy depending on just how hot your chip is running.
Sandia Research Laboratory believes it has come up with a much more efficient solution that simply combines the heatsink and fan components into a single unit. What you effectively get is a spinning heatsink.
The new design is called the Sandia Cooler. It spins at just 2,000 RPM and sits a thousandth of an inch above the processor. Sandia claim this setup is extremely efficient at drawing heat away from the chip, in the order of 30x more efficient than your typical heatsink-fan setup. This is because it removes thermal resistance by cutting the amount of motionless air within the cooling setup due to all parts moving. As it spins quite slowly, you get the added benefit of noise reduction, too.
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Your typical air cooling setup for a processor consists of a heatsink and fan configuration. The heatsink draws the heat away from the chip, and the fan sits on top sucking the heat away from the heatsink and out of the case. It’s a setup that has been in use for decades, but has its limitations and can be very noisy depending on just how hot your chip is running.
Sandia Research Laboratory believes it has come up with a much more efficient solution that simply combines the heatsink and fan components into a single unit. What you effectively get is a spinning heatsink.
The new design is called the Sandia Cooler. It spins at just 2,000 RPM and sits a thousandth of an inch above the processor. Sandia claim this setup is extremely efficient at drawing heat away from the chip, in the order of 30x more efficient than your typical heatsink-fan setup. This is because it removes thermal resistance by cutting the amount of motionless air within the cooling setup due to all parts moving. As it spins quite slowly, you get the added benefit of noise reduction, too.
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