Water cooling on laptops

There is a market out there who are willing to pay more than 5 grand to have the fastest computer. They either need it or just doing it because they can. Now this market is still huge altough the financial crisis is effecting everybody. Take apple. Their regular 17" macbook pro was selling for what 3-5 grand and the cou was adequate compared to some other options out there. The GPU was totally riddiculous. So now think about putting a dual quadcore cpus and sli gpu in an 18.4" laptop that is less than 2" thick and can run more than 1hour without plugging in. You can sell it again for 5K since you were already selling a mixk mouse for that price. Now you will also get people who wants the best because there will be no other company who can have such a power. Radiator, reservoir, fosset, these should not be necessary for this project. It should be a stand alone machine that can do its job by itself in managable sizes. And I believe that is not that hard or lets say impossible. You can go ahead and use your desktop and have a decent laptop that has a 9600m gpu for half of the price, but you can not run your complicated 3d modeling to your customers on the field with any of those two.

 

fusion block like on the asus striker II extreme would be amazing if you wanted to do water cooled.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/fujitsus-water-cooled-lifebook-n7010-with-secondary-4-inch-touc/

 

Being a desktop water cooler myself this type of application of the technology has always interested me. I would say you should forget about putting the cooling pipes in the screen though, the moving nature of opening and closing the screen on the hinges is really prohibitive to creating a reliable joint, and unless you have a series of tiny tubes up and down the monitor all having to withstand that opening and closing motion you'd have a couple of giant tubes with bad bend radiuses. I really don't think that boiling the water or hurting yourself due to the latent heat in the water is as big of a concern as it was made, the hotter the water is the greater the differential in temperature to ambient and the faster that head is expelled. You generally find in low volume passive water cooling that you can reach a hysteresis, it'll be hotter than you might like, especially for a desktop, but as hot as laptops already run it wouldn't be so bad.

I'd focus on a laptop where the bottom 1/8" was all passive radiator aside from where the blocks were or something of that nature. Part of the problem is the complexities of the laptop and its motherboards design by nature, if you can't make your own board as part of the project you're inherently limited by the designs available.

Also as for liquid metals, I didn't see anyone bring up the old favorite (albeit poisonous and not commercially viable since its use is being phased out) Mercury.

 

That fujitsu siemens laptop is unnecessary. neither the monteveina cpu or the ATi graphics card get really hot. They could be very easily cooled by a standard air cooler.
Their is no reason to have water cooling in a laptop, it is just plain old foolish.

K-TRON