[Nottingham] Water cooled CPUs - worthwhile?

[Richard Ward]

Richard Ward wrote:
> Camilo Mesias wrote:
>> Would it be possible to power a Stirling
>> engine off a CPU, and in doing so, cool it?
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> Without being able to say for sure, I doubt it, but if it was just shy 
> of being good enough, you could always have the Stirling engine drive a 
> fan pointed at the cpu for a little extra cooling.


Hah!, after a quick check on everyones favorite collaborative 
encyclopedia, it appears someone at MSI had the same idea...

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9051/msi_employs_stirling_engine_theory/index.html

Richard