Ionic cooling

looks a good idea :) - shame he never gave details about sys temps, overclock etc.

As he said in the artical u could hook up some laptop HDD's and they would be almost silent.
 
Yeah, I was a bit miffed by the lack of detail /re temps/etc but I guess the 7800GTX and Pentium D are fairly hot so it has to be able to deal with a reasonable amount of heat.

Do I remember correctly when I thought I read that the ionic cooler pushes nearly 300 cfm?!

(in work atm so inet access is sporadic)
 
It seems highly unlikely that 325cfm is possible as commercial ionic generators get up to 106cfm with fan assist. Also no matter how big the outlet is 325cfm must produce some sort of blowing sound. Interesting aricle though.
 
I thought 300 sounded rather excessive, though I know nothing about ionic wind generators so I didn't want to make any bold statements ;) (and probably remember the article wrong anyhow)

It's quite an interesting setup but I still think my preference is the "toilet cooled" PC :)
 
DIY kit

"This generator works great for pollution removal in small areas (Imagine after Grandpa gets done in the bathroom!), and moves the air through the filter simply by the force of ion repulsion! No fan blades, no noise, just swiftly moving, charged air. Learn how modern spacecraft use ions to accelerate through space."
 
I was initially under the impression that he had found a clever way of utilising "thermionic emission" to dissipate heat. Never heard of ionic wind!!! lol .... Definitely heard of ion propelled spacecraft like the recent esa smart1 probe sent recently to the moon which used an ion drive. 325cfm seems excessive to me too and if it was 325 surely it would make a noise??

Looks interesting though. Though looking at the so called instructions for constructing your own and a construction time of 5.5hrs I would doubt very few people would be able to build one from his instructions unless your a genius experimental scientist.

Jules
 
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