future ideas

[The Overclocker]

this is what will happen in the future: there will be a new ATX standard which has underneth the hard drive bays four holes for maounting a resovoir. cpus will come with a retail waterbock instead of a heatsink. the rest, being expensive will be a one off purchase and universal with intal and AMD cpus, there will be a 80mm radiator that can be attached to a fan next to the cpu and there will be a resovoir witha 12volt submersable pump

[dimmreaper]

Dream on!

This is what will happen:

Copper based HSFs with an 80mm fans will become standard, models will be similar to the Alpha PAL 8045. CPU's will undergo a die shrink to .13micron. which will lower heat output. Then CPU's will transition to SOI technology, which lowers power consumption, and as a result heat product, and it will allow for faster transistor switching speeds. Then CPU's a few years down the road will undergo another, and probibly final die shrink to .10micron SOI. Then later we will have optiacal, melecular, or organic CPU's that won't generate barely any heat.

[It_The_Cow]

I think Jeff's is more reasonable

[VashTheStampede]

Either Jeff's, or if we can't make CPUs run any cooler and they progress to get hotter and hotter, we will start seeing full silver HSFs. Once those become infective, carbon nanotube HSFs, which to my knowledge are the best conductors of heat known to man. Maybe even carbon nanotubes built into or on top of CPUs.

That's just one way to look at things.

~RT~

[dimmreaper]

Originally posted by RedneckTech
Either Jeff's, or if we can't make CPUs run any cooler and they progress to get hotter and hotter, we will start seeing full silver HSFs. Once those become infective, carbon nanotube HSFs, which to my knowledge are the best conductors of heat known to man. Maybe even carbon nanotubes built into or on top of CPUs.AMD and Intel would stop making faster CPUs before it got to this. No system integrator wants to pay for a $75 heatsink or watercooling solution to keep a $200 or less CPU cool. It just isn't cost effective enough for mainstream . . .

[Phil]

Very few manufacturers even bother with case cooling, I've only really seen amd systems with a case fan behind the cpu because it's part of meating amd certification.
The ones that do only stick one fan in. I can imagine in a few years some manufacturers using watercooling and charging a fortune for it because the masses won't realise how inexpensive and easy it is to do it your self.

[Tebore]

Ack Hem how about wearable computers? They might not even use battery power instead maybe they'll get the power from the pulses of electricity under the skin, they'll probably generate no heat and if they do maybe the human cooling system (sweat) will cool them. The computers we use today might or will become really intresting paper weights.

[dimmreaper]

Originally posted by Tebore
Ack Hem how about wearable computers? They might not even use battery power instead maybe they'll get the power from the pulses of electricity under the skin, they'll probably generate no heat and if they do maybe the human cooling system (sweat) will cool them. The computers we use today might or will become really intresting paper weights. What about the PC that is the size of a asprin, and they just drill a hole in your head for installation, it taps in to the optic nerve for output, and reads your mind for input.

Sure it's coming, but it's a long way off, just as the wearable PC is. I was assuming that because this thread was posted under cooling that we were talking about the future of cooling though.

[Phil]

how about a methane powered computer, I don't know of any benefits of using methane I just want an excuse to break wind a lot

[The Overclocker]

panrix supply their systems with a 120mm fan in the back!

[Crazy Jayhawk]

Originally posted by Phil
how about a methane powered computer, I don't know of any benefits of using methane I just want an excuse to break wind a lot Are you sure you want to walk around with a methane collector stuck to your butt?

[Random Nonsense]

quantum computers anyone? i think thats the way things will go, i dont really understand how they work though :(

[VashTheStampede]

Sterling/Stirling engines, uses heat energy and converts it to mechanical energy. Don't totally understand the concept, but maybe you can also use it as a PSU. A computer powered by it's own heat....

~RT~