Not really, due to how carbon fibers tend to conduct and radiate heat - only at their ends.

Plenty of graphite-based heat sink solutions that work better than copper. I've got a graphite-core aluminum fin LGA775 heat sink. Tears up my solid copper Itanium II cooler.

"Honest question: how would you build a consumer system that doesn't rely on air cooling eventually?"

You don't, pretty much, excepting what you've listed (heat sinking to earth, evaporative cooling.)

".except what we find out is that actually you only have just enough knowledge to look stupid because you overlooked important details such as the obvious limitations imposed by having your radiator mounted directly on the device being cooled."

Yet you'll gladly stuff that radiator INSIDE THE COMPUTER CASE and cause premature heat failure of other components inside, like your motherboard.

BRILLIANT!

"What's so great about an operating system that was invented before the age of Dropbox and Facebook, an OS that's almost as old as the original Google search engine?"

It does everything newer operating systems do, with a smaller footprint, and without so much goddamned annoying DRM.

Only exception? No support for anything higher than DX9. Which isn't important for anything but gamers.

Of course, the same could be said about Windows 2000.

>You circulate the water between the heat-producing surface and a heat-dissipating radiator.

Which means you still need air contact and air flow to cool off the radiator.

So you just waste more power on an already inefficient cooling process.

Might as well be a fool and use a Peltier inside the computer at that pint.

Only to still replace it with air cooling further down the line. What a waste.

I design cooling systems for high-heat semiconductors. Guess what? Liquid cooling SUCKS as you're still limited by how fast you can transfer the heat to the air ultimately.

Direct metal cooling, or phase change. Liquid/water cooling sucks.

Guess where that heat ultimately dissipates any ways?

THE AIR.

It's like you failed thermodynamics in high school.

You aren't very bright either, failing to see that I'm not letting his stupid jeer get in the way of facts.

Their ads try to install things on your system without your knowledge.

That right there should be a serious warning to anyone using or considering Microsoft products.

I've got my own implementation that is OSI compatible. But given I answered more than half of the RFCs and had over 30% of those comments implemented, I'm still a father.

Oh, you wanted a name? No, sir. Do that work for yourself.

" Do you even understand how the OSI model works?"

Given Layer 6 is almost entirely written by me, yea, I know far more than you do.

Come back when you've got a fucking clue.

Uh, yea, been at it since 1992, when Cable modem first came out for Memphis.