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[plonq]

A video card cooled by liquid metal.

I'll just add it to my shopping list along with one of those dual-core AMD 64s.

Oooh.  Technology like this gives me inappropriate stirrings in the nether regions.  <purr>

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[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

What does it use? Mercury? That's a toxic metal and it is banned from use. No other metal is liquid at room temperature.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

They're probably using this gallium alloy (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7348) - which was developed in Texas, don'tcha know.

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

Ewwww

[kamiten.livejournal.com]

Very cool, but I'll just get a videocard with heatpipes for now, since those are quiet, effective, and already on the market...

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Bah! Toxic!
I used to play with mercury with my bear hands as a piglet and look at me! Perfectly normal other than... you know, the black ingernails, yellow eyeballs, cracked tongue... :P
No, seriously, I used to play with Mercury and nothing ever happened to me, now they don't even want mercury thermometers, that have soooooo very little mercury because of that... puh -.-

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Wooot! No fans! Finally the end of dust problems for me!

Now if I could only afford a new videocard at all... :P

[anthony-lion.livejournal.com]

Gosh....

Maybe it's time to replace the old ATI Rage Pro(PC TV model) card in my tower PC?
(4MB RAM, PCI card, state of the art back in 96...)

Haven't been impressed by a graphics card since the Technostation CAD unit from back in the 80s...
Basically, it was an almost 2" thick module 14"high and 11" wide and not only contained a complete 32bits processor and memory, but was capable of controlling a high-resolution 21" CRT and two smaller LCD Text-mode terminals. It had an A3 sized tablet too...
(you needed a ND mainframe to slot the module into, though)

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

It's the cooling system that was developed in Texas. I think the Gallium-Tin-Indium alloy was actually invented by some Germans 7 years ago. It is liquid down to the freezing point of water, and all 3 components are relatively non-toxic.

U.S. Patent #5,800,060