Silentflux bubble pump liquid cooling

Using the almighty power of bubbles to cool the CPU?

Enthusiasts have been using heatsinks for many years, and watercooling loops for a good chunk of that time too.

One thing we haven't been using is bubbles. This is possibly because bubbles sound rather silly, but Silentflux seems to think just the opposite - we need more of them.

The system is almost like a nuclear reactor, in that it is a closed loop of liquid. It is heated up at the CPU block, which heats up the liquid and boils it - creating the bubbles.

These bubbles then float upwards to a radiator of sorts, that radiates the heat from the gaseous substance and turns it back into a liquid, where it will run back to the CPU and begin the process all over again.

It's supposed to be entirely silent, and the constant movement of bubbles will keep the liquid inside circulating without need for a pump. While we're not sure that leaving a CPU to merrily chug away until boiling point is a good idea, perhaps the liquid used will have a low enough boiling point that this won't be too much of a problem.

We also wonder what happens when you apply more heat than the closed loop can handle, and turn more of the liquid into bubbles than they intended....really big explosion? Or just a built-in safety shutoff?

Either way, head over to TomsHardware to grab a look at this crazy bubbly tech.