Oh and guess I was right...it is water cooled.. "So we ended up putting in two 60mm fans, and we came up with a water-cooled heat sink as well for the CPU. We've actually applied for a patent on that one.
The water cooled term is being used loosely; actually it is a heat sink constructed of a copper base, aluminum stamped fins and copper heat pipe. The heat pipe contains water and a vacuum is pulled on the pipe prior to sealing.
Water under a vacuum boils at a lower temperature than at atmospheric pressure, so when the water boils and becomes steam, the steam rises and moves the heat higher into the fins where the air flow from the fans can extract the heat more efficiently. Once the steam is cooled it condenses and flows back down the pipe as water to the copper base of the heat sink, which is attached to the processor to continue the condensing and cooling processes cycle."
HVD sounds pretty cool, considering it can hold up to 3.9 terabytes, however what would be the cost of manufacturing it and how much would the drive be for playing the thing?
I would be interested in finding out what film companies would back it and the cost.
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Looks like Blu-Ray has already been surpassed...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
Check out the inside of the XBOX 360-
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/system/microsoft/xbox360/mb.jpg
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/system/microsoft/xbox360/no_cov.jpg
CHECK OUT THAT HEATSINK ON THE CPU!
Oh and guess I was right...it is water cooled..
"So we ended up putting in two 60mm fans, and we came up with a water-cooled heat sink as well for the CPU. We've actually applied for a patent on that one.
The water cooled term is being used loosely; actually it is a heat sink constructed of a copper base, aluminum stamped fins and copper heat pipe. The heat pipe contains water and a vacuum is pulled on the pipe prior to sealing.
Water under a vacuum boils at a lower temperature than at atmospheric pressure, so when the water boils and becomes steam, the steam rises and moves the heat higher into the fins where the air flow from the fans can extract the heat more efficiently. Once the steam is cooled it condenses and flows back down the pipe as water to the copper base of the heat sink, which is attached to the processor to continue the condensing and cooling processes cycle."
-SOURCE
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/xbox360/xbox360theguts.htm
Who knew?
HVD sounds pretty cool, considering it can hold up to 3.9 terabytes, however what would be the cost of manufacturing it and how much would the drive be for playing the thing?
I would be interested in finding out what film companies would back it and the cost.
Check out the names that are backing blu-ray...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association
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