PC components are neatly fixed beneath the belly of this cast iron hulk.

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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

iron? wont that retain heat?

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    It should evacuate it slowly through radiation and transfer to the air that will flow through it by convection.

    Normally passive cooling like that can't keep up with a typical modern desktop computer. But given how extremely heavy and large surface area it has, it might work. Provided that it is big enough and that the iron can conduct heat away from the source and spread it throughout its mass fast enough. Usually we use copper or aluminium for that for their better thermal conductivity.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Yes, but no. Iron is still a good conductor of heat. It is just slower than aluminum and copper, so it is a poor material for making small materially efficient heat sinks. But it is perfectly fine for making large heavy heat sinks.

    The reason it is said iron retains heat in cooking is because it has a high thermal mass (this is mainly because cast iron is so dense and non-ductile(so it has to be made thicker to not break)). It takes a lot of energy transfer to cool down a heavy cast iron pan. Conversely, it takes a lot of energy transfer to heat up a heavy cast iron pan. As long as heat-in<heat-out it will work as a cooler.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It isn't as good as Al but that is still a massive heat sink.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Al is a money and power sink.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Never mind that it's not even "I", just "A". Real AI won't require nearly so much resources because it won't be faking it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Never mind that it's not even "I"

    Agreed, but regarding the second part I think there's no way to tell, and I would expect real intelligence to be even heavier on resources until we change something fundamentally, like growing neurochips out of real neurons.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    So not as much as a PC case than a PC cover - that is still used as a radiator.

    So 50kg + 10kg of water. And a PC.
    Quite a serious ITX build.

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    [–] 27 points 10 months ago

    Damn, I can't believe I'm saying this but that is a very beautiful radiator.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That's very pretty! I love unconventional pc case builds like this.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    However, it wouldn’t do justice to the cast-iron Victorian radiator to use anything other than one of the best gaming CPUs and best graphics cards available. Those tend to require significant power and are demanding when traditionally cooled

    1. This is from a company that seems to sell cooling solutions, altho there website is utter shit so who know what they actually do. So of course it should be new hardware.
    2. GPU need a ton of power since years, on top of the previously already high power demand.
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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Now Linus, keep you grubby mitts off this one

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I literally just saw an Instagram post from the guy who's making it yesterday.

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