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IBM's new CPU Cooling ideas...

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What do you think?

Watercooling built into the CPU packaging itself! :eek:
http://www.smalltimes.com/Articles/...ry=Manuf&PUBLICATION_ID=109&ARTICLE_ID=275807

To get better heat transfer from the core -> heatspreader:
A highly viscous paste is brought between the chip cap and the hot chip in order to reduce the thermal resistance. Thanks to its tree-like branched channels, the architecture allows the paste to spread very homogenously and attains a thickness of less than 10 micrometers. With this technique, two times less pressure is needed to apply the paste and a twofold increase in cooling performance can be achieved.
Also microscopic WC'ing:
The researchers are also developing a novel and promising approach for water-cooling. Called direct jet impingement, it squirts water onto the back of the chip and sucks it off again in a closed system using an array of up to 50,000 tiny nozzles and a tree-like branched return architecture.
Quite groovy if it starts appearing on CPU's...
 
Seems like a great idea, however, will it be any good for overclocking, what if they only make the system good enough for stock speeds?
 
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