Gigantic passive cooler.

[Bozo]

Almost the size of an ATX motherboard!

 

[Stereodude]

And still was inadequate with no airflow at doing the job on an overclocked processor. The article is lax in explaining how they tested it though. Was it sitting out in a room, in a case, etc...

 

[MaxBurn]

I think the best one I have seen is a guy that did a liquid cooling setup, but there was no radiator. Instead he buried a 55gal drum outside. Underground even in summer is pretty cool.

 

[ddrueding]

Years ago someone posted about plumbing it in with their swimming pool. If you could resolve the contamination and corrosion issues that would be pretty sweet.

 

[Handruin]

Years ago someone posted about plumbing it in with their swimming pool. If you could resolve the contamination and corrosion issues that would be pretty sweet.

Maybe some kind of closed circuit heat exchanging system to keep one contaminated water away from another. Almost like taking the radiator from the water cooling system and submerging it into the pool versus actually moving pool water through the PC.

 

[Adcadet]

Just run your computer outside, side panels off, no fan on the heat sink, on January day in Minnesota.

 

[ddrueding]

I'm tempted to relocate my entire equipment rack to the garage and just run conduit for DVI/USB/Audio to the desks.

 

[jtr1962]

I think this is a better approach to passively cooling the CPU. If you use an SSD and fanless power supply, you have a virtually silent system. There might be a slight 60Hz buzz in the power supply which you'll hear in a very quiet room, but that will be about it.

 

[LunarMist]

I think this is a better approach to passively cooling the CPU. If you use an SSD and fanless power supply, you have a virtually silent system. There might be a slight 60Hz buzz in the power supply which you'll hear in a very quiet room, but that will be about it.

That won't work very well if the PC is drawing high power for an extended period.

 

[jtr1962]

That won't work very well if the PC is drawing high power for an extended period.

No, it's definitely not for a high-powered PC. That setup will only work if the CPU's TDP is maybe 70 watts, perhaps 100 watts at the most.