Gateway PC keeps it cool
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Game-friendly desktop PC uses fans and a wind tunnel to bring down the temperature and the noise.
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Most all-in-one desktops with LCD panels (the Sony VAIO and Gateway Profile systems come to mind) are two units permanently connected together: the part of the case housing the motherboard and drives, and the monitor.
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The first in a new series of desktop PCs from Gateway will become available later this week, says the company.
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(InfoWorld) - Engineers at NEC and Hitachi are taking water cooling beyond the processor with a new PC designed to fit into the living room. The Valuestar W went on sale this week in Japan and packs a digital TV tuner along with a drive that can read and write Blu-ray Disc and read HD DVD. It's intended to take the place of a TV so it has to be quiet. Noise from the PC could ruin a good movie, so NEC turned to water cooling to keep the noise low. In most desktop PCs, a large heatsink is bolted to the top of the processor to dissipate heat, and a fan blows the heat outside of the case. A water cooling system pumps water through a heatsink on the chip to more efficiently get rid of heat. It's a more complex and costly arrangement, but a slower and quieter fan can be used. NEC has alreadyÂ used water cooling in several PCsÂ to reduce fan noise so the PC can't easily be heard. With the fan noise all but gone the company has now turned its attention to the next noisiest component: the hard-disk drive. "It's difficult to make a hard-disk drive quieter so we decided to dampen the noise," said Hiroshi Sakai, manager of NEC Personal Products' common engineering department. NEC wrapped the drive in noise-dampening foam, but that means the device gets much hotter, so the processor water cooling system has been extended. In the new PC water flows past both the processor and CPU to keep them. The system was developed with Hitachi, which has built up years of water cooling knowledge through its mainframe systems business. Hitachi showed its first water-cooled PC prototype in 2002 and has worked with vendors including Hewlett-PackardÂ on water-cooled systems. The Valuestar W is the fourth generation of water-cooled PC from NEC and the heatsink has been substantially redesigned since the first PC went on sale in 2003. Back then it was nothing more than a copper pipe snaked over the heatsink plate, but the latest model, developed with Hitachi, pushes water through channels that are less than a tenth of a millimeter wide. Hitachi licenses its water-cooling system to other vendors to help bring the price down. Hitachi itself has a small share of the PC market so it's unable to realize economies of scale through its own products, said Hideaki Gemma, general manager of Hitachi's IT thermal solution group. In addition to NEC the system has been licensed to some Taiwanese PC makers and some television makers, he said. The fourth generation system adds about Â¥10,000 ($86.43) to the cost of the Valuestar W, which is a lot in the competitive PC market place. But NEC hopes consumers will pay the extra money for reduced noise. A version based on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with nVidia GeForce 8400 graphics, the Blu-ray Disc/HD DVD drive, 2GB of memory, a 750GB hard-disk drive, and 22-inch monitor costs about Â¥355,000.
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Logitech ChillStream controller for PCÂs contains a small fan that blows cool air onto your palms while you play.
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By Shyla Sangaran  HAVING problems keeping your servers cool? Well, IBM Corp has introduced a new range of AMD Opteron processor-based servers that incorporate Cool Blue, a cooling technology that helps to improve server power utilisation and reduce energy costs.
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Opinion: The company&#39;s decision to keep per-processor licensing for upcoming multicore technology is a win for customers, but of more immediate licensing concern are grid, partitioning and utility computing.
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Comprehensive security programs that include firewall software, spyware defenses and diagnostic and repair tools are necessay to keep a PC in good health these days. -The Washington Post
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 7  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway, Inc. today introduced the Gateway(R) E-4610 professional desktop, which brings enhanced performance, manageability and security to Gateway's education, government and business customers.
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Employing the latest in PC technology, the Gateway 700GR is designed on Intel&#39;s highly anticipated BTX architecture, which aligns key components in a central wind tunnel.
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Budget Eee PC 701 grabs spotlight at Computex 2007 with its computing power and convenience.
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Jumping onto the design-and-simplicity bandwagon, Gateway unveils the 'One' desktop and touts it as an affordable and practical alternative for consumers who might not want to shell out the bucks for, well, Apple.
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Opteron to gain power preservation tech - and other goodies
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Gateway released the specifications this week for a retail desktop PC based on a new motherboard design that should help cool high-end processors and graphics cards.
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Excess heat generated by elevated processor performance is controlled by Alienware&#39;s exclusive ultra-quiet Liquid Cooling technology, which cools components with specially formulated liquid and gold-plated, pure copper coolers.
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Computer manufacturer sells new line through major retail centers in bid to return to profitability. SAN FRANCISCO  - PC manufacturer Gateway Inc.
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When this room first becomes a server room, it holds three servers and uses ordinary building air conditioning to keep things cool -- which works except on a few really hot days.