MSI will present a live demo of World's First Powerless Air Cooler on a Main board on the MSI booth in CeBIT Hall 21 B34.Here visitors will be able to see the electricity-less fan which is powered only by the movement of heat and air, the fan speed will change relative to the chipset temperature. The prototype "Air Power Cooler" is MSI’s first attempt to investigate how the Eco concept can work in tandem with the evolution of the main board "ECOlution”. MSI_Powerless Air Cooler_A.jpgThe "Air Power Cooler" transfers the chipset heat into air momentum, when the air becomes hot, the air will expand then push the fan to rotate and In doing so cooling the heatsink immediately. After the air moves from the bottom to top of the piston, the air will become heavy to push the up piston down. The better air piston design can transfer over 70% heat power and transfer to air power, that's great efficiency transfer from Stirling engine theory.
MSI Air Power Cooler is based on Stirling Engine theory and is developed with great support from Polo-Tech Taiwan, the exclusive heat transfer technical design company with their own patent rights. The Stirling engine theory and prototype was invented during1600's. The Stirling engine, cycles through four main processes: cooling, compression, heating and expansion.
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MSI presents World's First Powerless Air Cooler on a Main board
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That's neat
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Re: MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into cooling
I saw that the other day, Its pretty ingeniuos.
I wonder how much cooling capacity it actually has.
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I wonder how much cooling capacity it actually has.
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its pretty ingeneous, but whats the point? it still has a fan and it still makes noise. fans use barely any power any way

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ITS PERPETUAL MOTION!!!!!! 

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Re: MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into cooling
Haha, no but it's basically a TEC in reverse, which is pretty cool.skierkid450 wrote:ITS PERPETUAL MOTION!!!!!!
That's not entirely true, as a TEC isn't a Stirling engine, but same principle holds, make one side hot, one side cold and it spins the fan! You could use a TEC if you wanted but they've skipped the electrical part of a TEC and just put the work straight into the fan.
Re: MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into cooling
Try and see the big picture, if every NB fan that MSI sells uses 1W of power, that ends up being a lot of watts. Take that to 0W with this fan thing and the environment is saved a little bit.martini161 wrote:its pretty ingeneous, but whats the point? it still has a fan and it still makes noise. fans use barely any power any way
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yeah but also think how much more energy it takes to make one of those things compared to a normal hsf

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That is soooo s-w-e-e-t !
Now either I got to get one of those things or somebody has made a YouTube video about it already.
Now either I got to get one of those things or somebody has made a YouTube video about it already.

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WOW. I found a video showing how this thing runs!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/msi-e ... 1116055432
The product is in the middle time of the video shoot.
It's very inpressive for the fan to spin that fast.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/msi-e ... 1116055432
The product is in the middle time of the video shoot.
It's very inpressive for the fan to spin that fast.

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wow, it was going pretty good... not a bad concept.
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Re: MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into cooling
The AOL linky points to a few YouTube videos for this ECO cooler.
It's amazing that this video has had 177,265 hits since CeBit 2008 started!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG36EIFN ... re=related
Here's the video of the company who makes the product for MSI ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7x_f5T ... re=related

It's amazing that this video has had 177,265 hits since CeBit 2008 started!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG36EIFN ... re=related
Here's the video of the company who makes the product for MSI ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7x_f5T ... re=related
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Re: MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into cooling
That thing is pretty cool :D