Liquid Metal Cooler
Published by Bogdan Alex, on July 21st, 2008, in the categories: Coolers
If you can’t get enough cooling out of those air-based fans and water-blocks, but you don’t really want to waste money on nitrogen and carbonic snow, there’s some new kind of cooler out there that runs on liquid metal.
Well, if you aren’t really into extreme overclocking or case-modding, you don’t have to make the jump for this one. However, the Danamics CPU cooler is bound to lure you with nifty tech oozing around it. According to Gizmodo, the Danamics LM-10 is the world's first commercial CPU cooler based on liquid metal. This reminds me of the T1000 Terminator model that was made of mercury or something. The guys of at Danamics figured out that liquid metal has thermodynamic properties that apparently improve temperature uniformity on the cooling surface, and allow for lower temperatures when compared to other cooling solutions available on the market. The good thing is that the cooler doesn’t need a separate pump like water-blocks have since the cooling is done by metal that can be pumped electromagnetically. Thus, the cooler has no moving-parts and comes with an integrated silent pump that draws just 1W of power.
Danamics haven’t yet released any info on pricing and availability.
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6 Comments on “Liquid Metal Cooler”
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jaxsun said on 01/02/2009:
what metal would it be made out of? mercury is the only metal at room temperature, but wouldnt that be poisonous? I'm quite curious about this.
Jaece said on 01/02/2009:
So you'd rather have a cooler with a liquid metal you can drink? I mean, what? Why does it matter if it's poisonous? O.o
Most watercooling systems have a poisonous additive...
JT said on 01/03/2009:
Well, Gallium melts just above room temperature and alloys of it below freezing with the plus side of being absolutely harmless. That's probably what they're using. It's a fairly simple but ingenious solution to cooling since the liquid metal can easily be circulated with magnets to distribute the heat evenly over the radiator.
bonez said on 01/03/2009:
The only problem with either gallium or mercury is that the pumping action is electromagnetic in nature and the only non-exotic metal that is significantly reactive to a magnetic field is iron so perhaps it is an iron/mercury amalgam or iron/galliun (and others) alloy.
Pyotr said on 01/08/2009:
Usually metal-cooling systems like this are made with sodium metal. Sodium has a low melting point and great thermal conductivity, especially in the liquid phase.