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I just thought it would be a decent way or control the temperature of the computer. Possibly you could even run it inside a vacuum. I'm even planning on building a prototype our of plexiglass.
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Even with a vacuum you have to dispate heat. In fact, it's easier with air, and gets easier when you use compressable materials like water or refrigerant. |
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You could mount the CPU to the case and then turn the case into a giant heatsink, but I don't think plexiglass would work well for this. |
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Er, phoenix, water is for most practical purposes incompressible, unlike air. Water is useful for cooling not because of its (in)compressibility but because it has a high heat capacity per volume and it's not too viscous. (Refrigerants --- if by that you mean the stuff they use in heat pumps like refrigerators and air conditioners --- are usually fluids with a gas-liquid transition at a convenient temperature+pressure.) |
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Instead of a vacuum, why not fill the case with some noncorrosive, insulating liquid with good heat transfer properties? Like polychlorinated biphenyls, maybe? Pity they're so toxic. |
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