Fanless spinning heatsink

How can a heatsink be tight against the CPU and move, obviously there is a gap somewhere still or is the central axis the heatpipe that connects the two or something like that

Great idea, like the Saab with a variable cylinder size I read years ago. Choose a 2000cc engine or 3000cc depending how you want to drive
 
How is it connected to whatever it is removing heat from?
As for the dust it won't be on the heatsink but it'll probably be around the motherboard as it's been flung away.

Pretty neat though.
 
Not saying it won't work, but the boundary layer of air just moves from the heatsink onto the blades of this spinning heatsink? It still has that terrible world ending boundary layer they rave about being the Achilles heal of conventional HSF combos?
 
I do not like the idea of a lump of metal spinning inside my case around valuable bit's of hardware like GPUs, memory and motherboards.

Stupid idea.
 
Justintime said:
Yeah it claims to be written in 2011, but i'm sure i've seen the exact same article before years ago.
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yup someone posted about it ages ago, remember it well, the idea was thrown out as being completely stupid tbh, who in the blazes wants a 1-2Kg lump of metal spinning around inside a computer case, think of the damage when it comes loose haha
 
lomez said:
look at the review its talking about pusshing through 3ghz boundries so seems very dated to me
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if you read the article you will see he's talking about the mainstream market. they openly admit that most people in the high end market (ie, us) are at the 4Ghz barrier (except for sandybridge, which is the 5Ghz barrier)
 
"rotating the heat exchanger obliterates the boundary layer"

In addition to being outdated, this is just plain wrong. 'Obliterates the boundary layer' makes no physical sense; you can change the characteristics of the layer to improve heat transfer, but obliterate?

This whole thing sounds dodge to me.
 
SillyHeatsink said:
"rotating the heat exchanger obliterates the boundary layer"

In addition to being outdated, this is just plain wrong. 'Obliterates the boundary layer' makes no physical sense; you can change the characteristics of the layer to improve heat transfer, but obliterate?

This whole thing sounds dodge to me.
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It's as if your nick was made to post in this. Did you know about this product already in 2007??
 
Was wondering about the transfer of heat between the thing its cooling/baseplate and the spinning metal bit myself... from anything I can see it will at best cancel out any gains from having the heatsink spinning.
 
Looks interesting, there must be a reason all the fan makers don't make the fans out of metal as well though. Also imagine that thing breaking while running at high speed :o
 
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