Impressive. It would be great if all I had to do to cool my CPU was a big passive heatsink. If the only tempature problem was keeping it cool enough to not melt or set fire anything else in the system.
Thats actually ghetto enough that I might try it. Depending on how much the ducts cost and If I can combine a few into one duct. Wouldnt take too much to get a duct from the back of my comps to the window.
You can buy ducting kits which are used to distribute heat throughout a house. They come with T-junctions and grill plates, so if you're *that* keen on the idea and don't want to just chuck the pipe out the window, you can install the thing properly by piping it straight through the wall. Very pretty.
The kit I got cost around $80 and that included 4 x 4 inch fans to move the air. I din;t bother installing any more fans though.
I used a plastic sandwich container, and duct taped it to the back of the case and fitted the ducting into it, so it collects the output from the PSU and the fan behind the CPU. I disabled the case top fan and removed it. So *some* heat still comes out form the top of the case, but the vast majority of it goes out the window.
Of course, temps are like 2 degrees here now, so it's disconnected to get the advantage of the heating effect for the room.
Nah that's practical. I've been debating a blowhole in my server closet for a bit. Three machines and a monitor heats that enough to grow pot...which is probably what the black helicopters will think I'm doing when they see a large infrared signature from the side of my house.
Previous research has already shown that even at red-hot temperatures as high as 650C (1,202F), silicon carbide devices can function unperturbed and without the need for cooling.
this is kick ass technology....probably could actually cook your own fries, or make your own breakfast in less the time that the guy on that one webpage not to long ago.
