Electronics cooling specialist Gelid Solutions has released a three-fan “Black Edition” heat sink designed for gamers and computer enthusiasts. According to the company, the new cooler incorporates a thin-fin aluminum tower design and seven independent heat pipes to draw heat away from the CPU’s hot spots without sacrificing space. The incorporation of a third, center-mounted … [Read more...]
Little Layer Cakes of Crystal Could Help Shrink Computers
In research aimed at making computers even smaller and more powerful, two engineers at Duke University have made headway in the quest to control the beams of light generated by tiny lasers. The two Duke scientists - Nan Marie Jokerst, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Ph.D. student Sabarni Palit - found solutions that could prove particularly useful in … [Read more...]
Graphics Card with Thermal Design Offers Quiet Performance
Graphics card and mainboard manufacturer MSI recently unveiled its N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC graphics card featuring the Twin Frozr II Thermal Design. An appraisal by BenchmarkReviews.com determined that “the Twin Frozr II cooling system is a well proven package that kept the GF104 GPU quite cool, even during stress testing.” The thermal interface material (TIM) was very … [Read more...]
Computers that Recycle Energy among Top IT Innovations
Computers that can recycle energy are among the scenarios IBM Corp. predicts over the next five years as part of its annual “Next Five in Five” year-end innovations report based on technologies being developed in IBM labs and around the world. On-chip water-cooling systems could be used to utilize thermal energy from a cluster of computer processors to provide hot water for an … [Read more...]
Intel® Atom™ Processor-Based Platform Uses Significantly Lower Power
Intel Corporation has unveiled its newest Intel® Atom™ processor-based platform. The technology package provides significantly lower power consumption and prepares the company to target a range of computing devices, including high-end smartphones, tablets and other mobile handheld products. The platform has been repartitioned to include the Intel Atom processor Z6xx, which … [Read more...]
