# T-1000 As A Processor Cooler? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896 "2005-06-26T06:02:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/1 "2005-06-26T06:02:25Z")
[Liquid metal to cool your PC.](http://nanocoolers.com/) > [@](#): > > Next-generation liquid-metal processor cooling > Our patented liquid-metal cooling loops are ideal for cooling high power microprocessors and other heat sources in applications that have demanding thermal performance, size, power dissipation and acoustic requirements. The liquid metal eliminates power density as a limiting factor in cooling applications. These liquid cooling loops are ideal for use in CPU cooling, far outperforming heat pipes, heat sinks and water cooling. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/2 "2005-06-26T15:23:11Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [Liquid metal to cool your PC.](http://nanocoolers.com/) You _are_ aware of the obvious references to the “Terminator” trilogy, no? Anyone putting liquid metal near the CPU of a computer system deserves a smack upside the head. You’re just one step closer to making SkyNET self-aware. :smack: Tripler . . . and that my friends, would really, really suck. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/3 "2005-06-26T16:50:06Z")
:::Waits for **Tripler** to remember the number of the character Robert Patrick played in T2.::: ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/4 "2005-06-26T17:58:28Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > :::Waits for **Tripler** to remember the number of the character Robert Patrick played in T2.::: Yeah . . . I [do . . .](http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/t1000techdata.html) :: Waits for **Tuckerfan** to admit, putting Robert Patrick near a CPU might be a bad thing, especially after “_Fire In the Sky_” :: Tripler . . . but I can watch “_Striptease_” over and over and over. . . ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/5 "2005-06-26T18:42:56Z")
I wonder what metal it uses - mercury? It says nuclear reactors use similar technology, but I don’t think processors get hot enough to melt the same types of coolant. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/6 "2005-06-26T21:16:03Z")
What could it be but mercury, unless they’re referring to some sort of metallic colloidal fluid… I hope this company will be initiating a recycling program of its products, so that this coolant system doesn’t end up further polluting the environment. (Just what we needed, still more-toxic high-tech garbage disposal problems!) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/7 "2005-06-27T05:11:21Z")
As a WAG, I’d guess that it’d use some form of ferro-fluid, since those were originally looked at for keeping the Apollo capsules cool. ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/t-1000-as-a-processor-cooler/309896/8 "2005-06-27T13:51:56Z")
I highly doubt they would use mercury - too much of a disposal hazard. My bet is on a gallium-indium alloy - some of them are liquid at 20 degrees F, IIRC.