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Diamond-cooled GPUs are coming soon — startup claims 20C temp reduction, 25% more overclocking headroom as it seeks US govt funding for diamond-encrusted chip cooling solutions (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Finally a good use for diamonds.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you know they're used as a cutting tool

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

so just sayin theyre not all sparklers on marilyn monroe's finger as she strokes her mink shawl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Diamonds are the most over rated gems in existence. The notion of their rarity was fabricated to inflate their price; it is one of the most common gems, to the point there are places in our solar system where it rains diamonds. And even on Earth, the existing reserves are very carefully controlled to ensure prices do not drop because if it were to be commercially escavated at full capacity, it would flood and dunk the market, permanently.

So finding other uses for pure carbon gems is a plus, although the ones going into this use will certainly be synthetic ones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Finally! I read about diamond thermal paste and heat spreaders 20 years ago.

[–] n3m37h 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is a substrate, the piece that holds all the parts of a CPU together and that is currently made using fibreglass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That's much better!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Kinda fitting to think we might see Nvidia cards with literal diamonds in them.

[–] n3m37h 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Except man made diamonds cost pennies to make compared to natural diamond

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I'm sure Nvidia would disagree. Everything is expensive to them.