If you’ve been waiting for something different in gaming PCs to come along by the end of the year, you may be in luck. Dell has got a little teaser up for its new Black Ice (whatever it may be) on its newly designed XPS website, and all it says so far is:
Technology like you’ve never seen. Black Ice is coming, exclusively from Dell.
Gizmodo guesses that Black Ice is a liquid cooling solution that will allow Dell to overclock its computers to a whole new level. I’ll have to agree with Giz on this one. Black Ice could very well be a new liquid cooling solution (maybe it’ll hit GPUs and CPUs, something the new Alienware is lacking), and I’m excited to see what it’s all about. You can head over to the XPS site and sign up for a mailing list and Dell well send you information when it decides to give us more information about Black Ice. Until then, stay tuned.
How much can you do to watercooling technology, short of using a custom fluid (something Voodoo has been doing for years now)
… or a new technology so that if your battery blows up, foam is shoots out from all angles extinguishing the fire.
Jon
… or if the over-clocked processors gets too hot and blows up as well
I don’t see the significance of this… what’s so special of liquid cooling? The fact is liquid cooling has a limit to how much it can cool parts. That’s why we have Phase Change cooling. I think a Core 2 Duo can be over clocked a couple gigahertz, and still have a temperature of ~ -30C (my figures are approximates, correct me if I’m wrong).
Plus, Phase change is not that expensive anymore. It used to be $1000+ for a phase change cooler, but you can get them for $300 today….
My guess is that Dell may be integrating a Phase Change cooler into their machines, but that’s nothing new: It’s been done before. I don’t remember which manufacturer it was, but it has been done.
Personally, I think it’s just your run of the mill advertising over-hype, borderline FUD.
–Jon Z | http://www.jzencovich.com/
I think a significant concept of this is simply that by Dell selling a line of water cooled computers, this will bring water cooling much more to the general public. I mean, right now pretty much I would guess someone is going to be somewhat of a geek of some sort to have a water cooled computer (geek is a compliment in my book, btw).
I hope if it is watercooling then its contained in some ridiculously tamper-proof manner, since bringing water cooling to the masses can only mean someone crying over their broken.. water cooling system.