Cooligy Debuts Hot Spot Cooler

[causticVapor]

1000W/cm^2? :x

This is very good news for intel, even better news for us, if it lives up to the hype.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

I like it. Even if it dont pan out. I mean this is what we need. SOme unconventional ideas. The old school cooling is quickly leaving us with diminishing results. Large HS can only get so large. A good example is how all the top end coolers are within just a few C of each other as opposed to a few years ago. Then the diff was greater between high end and low end cooling. Cant wait to see this tech implemented.

[CJE-P]

>>1000W/cm^2<<

That's using water as the liquid. I wonder what the numbers would be using something other than a water base.

[Cyan]

If it works well and is (basically) silent, I'd be willing to fork out a good 300 to 600 for it, depending. I've been holding out for a practical and good solution for awhile now.

[Bluehail]

I want it yesterday!

[SLX]

hehe, I dont know what they are talking about.

[zybch]

I've just worked out what Cyan's avatar is supposed to be. I originally thought it was a hand holding a couple of eggs or something.

[davea0511]

This sounds like something that is done in the chip package fabrication. In otherwords, what it means to us is we'll have to buy a new chip entirely to utilize this technology. That's cool with me (no pun intended).

It also sound like the chip as a whole will be able to run much hotter than normal before a failure become imminent. All this does is get rid of the hotspots. Effectively this means that the chip will require less cooling. In fact, heatpiping it to a small Aluminum case would probably be adequate for most situations. The case would get pretty toasty though.