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[freakmanultra]

Has anyone herd anything about the Xbox360 liquid cooling system?? Will it use metal or plastic blocks for the processors. Plastic would kinda scare me for 400 bucks.

[Statecowboy]

QUOTE(freakmanultra @ Oct 20 2005, 02:40 AM)

Has anyone herd anything about the Xbox360 liquid cooling system?? Will it use metal or plastic blocks for the processors. Plastic would kinda scare me for 400 bucks.

I don't understand your question.  They wouldn't use plastic on the interface for the chip, maybe the carriage.  A liquid cooling system exchanges heat from the chip conducting to the metal (due to its high thermal conductivity) interface of the exchanger, conducting into the fluid flow through convection.

The only possible plastic solution would be carbon rods, which have a very high uni-directional thermal conductivity, but that would be expensive as all get out, and unnecessary.

This post has been edited by Statecowboy: Oct 20 2005, 08:09 AM

[von_braun]

And its not really going to be water cooled, it will use a heat pipe.

[freakmanultra]

And yes it is liquid cooled.
http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1145/The...0-Dissected/p7/

Not to mention the MS rep that comes to my store once a month and gives us info on new products tols me that the final product will be liquid cooled.

The Beta kits were the ones with the heat pipes.

This post has been edited by freakmanultra: Oct 20 2005, 07:06 PM

[freakmanultra]

QUOTE(Statecowboy @ Oct 20 2005, 02:42 AM)

I don't understand your question.  They wouldn't use plastic on the interface for the chip, maybe the carriage.  A liquid cooling system exchanges heat from the chip conducting to the metal (due to its high thermal conductivity) interface of the exchanger, conducting into the fluid flow through convection.

The only possible plastic solution would be carbon rods, which have a very high uni-directional thermal conductivity, but that would be expensive as all get out, and unnecessary.

The carriage i guess is what i'm refering to. if that is the piece that the cooling lines connect to.  

[Jason9875]

QUOTE(freakmanultra @ Oct 20 2005, 10:39 AM)

And yes it is liquid cooled.
http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1145/The...0-Dissected/p7/

Not to mention the MS rep that comes to my store once a month and gives us info on new products tols me that the final product will be liquid cooled.

The Beta kits were the ones with the heat pipes.

You do know that that article is WAY WAY old?

And plus going with a computer esque water cooling system, wouldn't allow the console to be smaller, in fact it would take up a hell of a lot more space.

And besides more recent articles have said that the Heatsinks use a Heat pipe design and not true water cooling.

[freakmanultra]

do you have a link to these recent articles?

[aepuppetmaster]

i don't think there is one, but it has come to be comon belief that it is heat pipe.  For two reasons: 1) actuall liquicd cooling it to much $ and to unreliable in the long term (not to mention adds to much cost.  2) heat pipes are sometimes called liquid cooling cuz of the way the transfer heat wasy from the cource, and this is the kind of cooling u see in high end pc air cooling.  so it is deffinatly not liquid in the sense of a pump, block, and radiator.

[Statecowboy]

I agree, liquid cooling is probably not the case (I'm sure some 360 fanboy can affirm/deny that soon).  Heat pipes would be the more efficient and cost effective way to go.

[freakmanultra]

Nice. Liquid cooling scares me.