March 9, 2006

Intel’s Advanced Liquid Cooling

Intel are finally starting to pull some smart moves again. First they’re ditching the ultra-inefficient P4/NetBurst architecture for Conroe goodness, and now it turns out they’re also building a damn nice water cooling system. Small, efficient (it can cool a 3.8GHz P4 EE to a crazy 5GHz), metal pipes, a (presumably) quiet centrifugal pump, and all for under $50. Suddenly all the current water cooling solutions look pretty amateurish, just goes to show what you can happen when a mega corp lets their hardcore geeks off the engineering leash.

Intel Water Cooler