And would the cost of such a design be prohibatively expensive? Would it be able to use standard components, or woould it need yet another motherboard design? I believe that the new BTX standard addresses the issue of heat quite effectively but haven't been able to get my hands on one to verify that yet.
On 2/12/2006, "Wesley Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It seems to come down to this, doesn't it? There's precious little most PC >manufacturers are doing to adhere voluntarily to the laws of thermodynamics and >fluid dynamics. > >If I was allowed to design cases for a server sort of box, I'd put the hottest >components at one end of a venturi tube and let the natural >pressure/temperature >differentials drive the cooling. Bernoulli's Principle, pure and simple. So >it'd be some sort of static ram jet. > >Wesley Parish > >Quoting Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> "passive thermal chimney" was the search term i found most effective. >> I found nothing about using the technique for food storage, but there >> was some >> hippy stuff about using it to cool dwellings. Most info suggested using >> the >> whole building, some suggested a pipe running from a low point to above >> the >> roof. >> >> An obvious variation is to run a metal flue from basement to above roof >> line. >> This will move cool air up and out, and provide a nice cold metal object >> >> right by your servers that could act as an efficiant heatsink >> >> As the idea is too basic for anyone to make real money from, there is >> predictably little on the web about it other than the above. >> >> >> >> On Monday 13 February 2006 08:27, Craig FALCONER wrote: >> > Interesting idea - but it's a skyline-type garage with a concrete >> floor :-\ >> > >> > Do you have any more info on this passive cooling? >> > >> > hdtemp was telling me that some drives were over 50 degrees - not >> good. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Monday, 13 February 2006 8:19 a.m. >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: Horse down >> > >> > On Monday 13 February 2006 06:56, Robert Fisher wrote: >> > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 7:55 pm, Craig FALCONER wrote: >> > > > I'm thinking of ducting a big-arse tube in from outside and >> forcing >> > > > air through the four cases. >> > > >> > > That might not have been very helpful yesterday though. >> > >> > If its pulling air from UNDER the building through to the part(s) >> needing >> > cooling it will probably help. Air in a basement is generaly a lot >> cooler >> > than air pulled in from the side of the house. - I'm assuming this is >> in a >> > house or similar structure, i'm also assuming the basement or >> underfloor >> > area >> > is dry. >> > >> > There is a passive refridgeration system where one can build a cold >> box >> > sorrounded by a tube running floor to ceiling. DOC have used this in >> some >> > of >> > >> > thier buildings that will never have electricity. Food lasts a lot >> longer >> > here than on the bench in the warm room. I'm considering trying this @ >> home >> > for when the fridge finally dies. >> > >> > Perhaps the IT world can also benefit from such a low tech partial >> solution >> > as >> > a hole in the floor? >> >> -- >> :D >> > > > >"Sharpened hands are happy hands. >"Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" >- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge > >"I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" >I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the >other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press > >
