If you're gonna try it, do it on a low TDP part, please not your i5
Possibly helpful input: If it really is thermally conductive enough, you might want to cut some... Fins on the top and stick a fan on that sucker. The more surface are the better, right? Maybe try with and without a fan, just for funs.
If you're gonna try it, do it on a low TDP part, please not your i5
Possibly helpful input: If it really is thermally conductive enough, you might want to cut some... Fins on the top and stick a fan on that sucker. The more surface are the better, right? Maybe try with and without a fan, just for funs.
I will come up with some different heatsink designs. Maybe a low profile cooler, a giant tater, and one with fins. Thats to say If it doesn't explode on the first one of course.
No, probably won't work. Heatsinks have large surface areas and very high thermal conductivity. Potatoes can be simplified as solidifed syrup, being mostly carbohydrates and water. The CPU is going to heat up quickly and, while I suppose the potato will technically be a heatsink for a while, once it cooks enough it will be very difficult to cool.
As far as food and cooling goes, stick to mayonnaise as thermal paste.
No, probably won't work. Heatsinks have large surface areas and very high thermal conductivity. Potatoes can be simplified as solidifed syrup, being mostly carbohydrates and water. The CPU is going to heat up quickly and, while I suppose the potato will technically be a heatsink for a while, once it cooks enough it will be very difficult to cool.
As far as food and cooling goes, stick to mayonnaise as thermal paste.
I wouldn't think the potato would "bake" though. It would probably more or less dry up right? I don't think a CPU can get that hot; at least not before it dies.
P4s don't have ALL the thermal throttling or idle states of today's CPUs. It's gonna bake/dry up then lose any heat transfer capability that it did have.
Potatoes conduct heat well, but they do not dissipate it at all. So it will just get hotter and hotter. Your best attempt will likely have to be a skinned potato, with as many fins as you can carve. The bottom needs to be as flat as it can be. I would skip the thermal paste and go straight potato. Put a fan on it also. I give this experiment 4 thumbs up!
This would work well for about 10 minutes. Then it would start cooking..
The reason this will NOT work is simple.... you dont have any way of ..cooling the potatoe down... you cant vent it with air.. since its just .. a potatoe.
Legit, you could get it to work, if you freaking frankenstien it with coolant tubes, so you could get some heat out and cool in.. but.. yeah.. the work involved in doing that.. would be immense.
Plus then you have leaking issues... The potatoe could rebel and just.. blow up.
Potatoes conduct heat well, but they do not dissipate it at all. So it will just get hotter and hotter. Your best attempt will likely have to be a skinned potato, with as many fins as you can carve. The bottom needs to be as flat as it can be. I would skip the thermal paste and go straight potato. Put a fan on it also. I give this experiment 4 thumbs up!
You know there are like +4000 variants of this nightshade variant.. i think you owe it to yourself and us to try out a few of the more common variants.. like a sweet potato, a common russet, a bamberg... and of course the nec plus ultra: the Blue Swede
Gonna get the PC up and running or thrown together at least and do some prime 95 to find the max temps on the stock cooler so I can compare it to the potato. Should get to do the potato run this weekend. Stay tuned for results/pics/video.
The potato will probably cool your heat generators. Be it a a CPU, GPU memory or disks.
Until the potato dries out.
It wouldn't take long to dry a potato at 50-60 degrees
BTW. Are using fresh raw potato slices, to moisten up old snus, from time to time
Especially in the summertime heat, when the tobacco dries up over a day either in ones pockets or forgotten in the sun
i mean the OP didn't say what kind of potato it was.
russet? PEI? Idaho? what man what!
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