Cramming ever more transistors into CPUs has not troubled chip makers Intel Corp. and AMD Inc. The problem, rather, has been how to handle the extreme heat generated by the movement of so many electrons in such a tiny space.
With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100 degree Celsius and greater chips, makers stopped trying to raise processor speeds several years ago and moved to building multi-core CPUs instead.
Gamers and performance fanatics responded by usingwater, liquid nitrogen and other exotic liquids to cool their overclocked CPUs.
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1 Cooling CPUs with “nano-fridges” | insideHPC // Jan 30, 2009 at 8:56 am
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