How come no one has thought of this before? Computer mobo generates lots of heat, but why simply let all the heat escape into the air and become wasted? Isn’t it a good idea if you could make use of the heat to push certain coolers on the motherboad to cool down the system for better performance? MSI’s ECOlution motherboard is a super green motherboard that recycles the generated heat of the chipset and turn it into kinetic energy for powering the cooler of the chipset.
MSI is making thier ECOlution motherboard to showcase at CeBIT. The mobo comes with an “air powered cooler” that operates on the Stirling Engine Theory, which can transform thermal output of the chipset into energy for driving the cooler of the chipset. As shown in the picture above, the chipset is mounted with a special hat, which has a fan and a heat sink attached to it at one side. When lots of heat generated from the chipset, a super fast rise of the hot air will drive the fan. And the fan cools the heatsink that makes it drawing heat away from the chip more effectively.
It seems to have 70% efficiency only. But not sure, if the added accessory to the chipset will produce more noise or not.
via [Engadget]
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