How would you cool a processor in space?
How would you cool a processor in space?
Jace Anderson
Jace Baker
air-cooling :^)
Adam Thompson
Big heatsinks and lots of surface area to radiate heat.
Aaron Lopez
it's pretty cold in space
Levi Morris
There's also no atmosphere to absorb the extra energy from hot objects. For one of many discussions on this topic, see:
physics.stackexchange.com
Adrian Foster
aio coolers
because theres no air on space you need water
Dylan Garcia
Radiation
Luke Wood
Jayden Morgan
Since single processors are very small, all that's needed is an air/water chamber to transfer heat into.
Connor Garcia
Wouldn't the chamber get hot eventually?
Parker Miller
Processors already radiate heat here on Earth. They need to be very hot in the first place to radiate any significant amount of energy. It's not a cooling method by any degree.
Christopher Allen
Samuel Price
>rotates to capture the least sunlight when temperature goes up
>rotates to capture more sunlight when they go dangerously low
Since you can't rely on convection, go full thermal radiation
Hudson Hernandez
Just vent the air when it gets too hot and replace it?
Ayden Long
>Have to keep an infinite supply of air with you
Yes this is not problematic at all
David Evans
aio shills will go to any and all lengths to justify their buyer's remorse
Joshua Diaz
Ok then pump the air outside the ship into a tank or something, wait for it to cool off, then cycle it back in? And keep doing that, so you have one tank always cooling off and one tank always inside?
Elijah Richardson
Are you fkin serious
You're proposing an absolutely complicated solution that could easily be matched by making the original chamber bigger. On top of that it doesn't work, it still gets hot eventually. Radiation will take forever to dissipate heat.
Caleb Butler
What's your idea then hotshot? Last I looked I'm the only one trying to solve the problem.
Josiah Flores
Sufficient surface area for thermal exhaust
William Brooks
NASA use thinkpads and gentoo. Best laptops ever.
Juan White
Just block the sun with thermal shield or something
Samuel Walker
Intelligently throttle the CPU on software side, combine with some huge radiator on the outside
I think that might work