NEC Ships Water-Cooled, Quiet Multimedia PC
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Engineers at NEC and Hitachi teamed on the Valuestar W, which uses water cooling on both the CPU and hard disk.
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New products include slightly faster mainstream models and new lower-power server chips.
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Look for more consumer electronics products and services from the PC behemoth. Also: SuSE Linux for Dell servers.
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The HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim Business Desktop has a flash-based solid-state drive that lets the system boot up quickly.
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Disk freeze EMC refuses to let server makers get all the low-power data center attention. The storage vendor this week rolled out a new set of services meant to help customers gauge and then lower their energy consumption.â¦
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How about a $269 server? PC maker turns on rebates, special offers to breathe life into its direct-sales efforts.
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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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Santa Rosa processors, higher-end graphics cards, memory space and energy efficiency features part of upgrade announcement.
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Processors will feature enhanced power management technology.
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All-in-one machine at Intel confab bears resemblance to new Apple PC. Also: High-tech sandwich boards?
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(InfoWorld) - IBM will license its technology for cooling servers with water instead of air to a Chicago-area company. Panduit, a global networking and electrical manufacturer, will license IBM's Rear Door Heat eXchanger product, a five-inch deep cooling door to be mounted on the back of a conventional server rack in a data center. Water courses through the door, cooling the processors in the server hardware. IBM's water-cooled system reduces server heat output in data centers by up to 55 percent, compared to air-cooled technology, said Tom Bradicich, chief technology officer for IBM's BladeCenter and System x server product lines. The heat exchanger isÂ part of IBM's CoolBlue portfolioÂ of products to manage data centers more cost-effectively, reducing the heat generated by the increased processing power of servers and the increased number of servers crowded into datacenters. Datacenter operators who use fans for cooling have been slow to embrace water cooling because "it's difficult to do water cooling inexpensively," Bradicich said Wednesday in an interview. But over the last 18 months, the growth of datacenters running more and more industry-standard x-86 type servers "has been getting extremely out of hand," he said. The growth drives up demand for electricity to run more powerful computers and to keep the equipment cool. High energy costs have made water-cooled solutions more viable. Water cooling is getting a closer look from some IT administrators, but they still have some reservations about it, said Michael Bell, a GartnerÂ analyst, in a Wednesday interview. Water cooling can be initially more expensive to introduce into a datacenter than air cooling, and IT managers worry about water systems leaking and causing damage, Bell said. Some are sticking their toe in the water-cooling pool cautiously, clustering their highest powered servers into one part of their data centers and introducing water-cooled technology only in that area. But as datacenter electricity bills grow, "I think we'll see water usage coming more into play," he said, adding that it now costs data centers as much to cool a server as to power it. IBM rival Hewlett-PackardÂ introduced a water-based cooling systemÂ for its high-density servers in January. Also in January, blade server maker Egenera introduced a product called CoolFrame that integrates Liebert's X-Treme Density cooling technology into a blade architecture. Liebert is a division of Ohio-based Emerson Electric.
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New component could allow players small enough to fit in notebook PCs.
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The Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ is designed for thin and light mobile PCs, thanks to its reduced thermal design power and low operational voltage.
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Vista-ectomy won't hurt a bit NEC computers has decided to throw its business customers a Windows XP lifeline by punting a new solution for its desktop and notebook ranges that will allow IT administrators to downgrade from Vista.â¦
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CES 2005 Courts CE vendors with 'fanless' reference platform
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HP is offering a 16GB drive with its dc7800 PC, which it said will greatly reduce the computer's energy consumption, start-up time and application load and execute much faster when disk access is needed.
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Eco-friendly, GreenPower family of hard drive consume less power and go idle when not in use.