Framerate trouble

[Agnostic Bear]

Well I'm sorry that we don't all have the vacuum of space to cool our cards down.

[Stephen!]

Wouldn't a vacuum make it worse?

[Firehorse]

Wouldn't a vacuum make it worse?

Well the heat would probably dissipate really fast considering it has no air to heat up and no warm air = coldness.

[Stephen!]

How does the heat get from the chip to wherever if there is no medium? The heat would just build up inside the chip, no?

P.S this has got to be the most off-topic sway I've ever seen.

[Recursion]

How does the heat get from the chip to wherever if there is no medium? The heat would just build up inside the chip, no?

P.S this has got to be the most off-topic sway I've ever seen.

I think you're correct, whilst the heat could radiate, you'd still need a way of moving the heat away from the source, outside a vacuum... funnily enough, air would do it.

Vacuums themselves aren't cold/particularly warm anyway.

EDIT: http://www.overclock.net/cooling-exp...-vacuum-2.html

[N!ck]

EM radiation.

Tom, radiation is moving energy away from the source. At the speed of light.

It's a complex problem actually. As an 80 degree chip isn't going to lose heat via radiation in a vacuum any faster then it is at room temperature and pressure. However, the surroundings are not at room temperature. The surroundings on Earth also emit EM radiation of energy proportional to to how hot it is which the chip will absorb and heat it up. So radiating heat is more effective in the vacuum of space, but there's no convection which is the primary source of cooling the chip on Earth.

[Recursion]

[N!ck]

EDIT: http://www.overclock.net/cooling-exp...-vacuum-2.html

Only read the two pages of that thread, but that's only correct on Earth. To simulate it in space you'd also have to cool the vacuum chamber down to something like -260 degrees Celsius and implement some kind of one way mirror that stopped most of Earth's background radiation entering and the radiation from the device inside out.