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images/news/hardware.jpgOn Monday, Nvidia announced the Enthusiast System Architecture, a means to connect internal components like fans to each other in order to allow the PC to better manage the heat it produces.
The standard has won support from companies such as Dell and HP, as well as component manufacturers like eVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, CoolIT Systems, PC Power & Cooling, SilverStone, CoolerMaster, Tagan. Thermaltake, and XFX. ESA-compliant peripherals will include the PC chassis itself, fans, water cooling equipment, and power supplies, as well as the more traditional graphics card and motherboard.
ESA-compliant devices will be released before the end of 2007, Nvidia executives said.
Through ESA, Nvidia hopes to establish a network of thermal and electrical sensors across the PC, that can be used by an ESA-compliant chipset and graphics card to better manage heat. As the ESA standard evolves, Nvidia hopes to be able to allow the system to essentially map the flow of heated air throughout a PC, letting either a user or the PC itself manage the flow.
To do so, ESA components must build in a series of thermal and electrical sensors inside them, together with a small microcontroller. To connect them to the rest of the system, however, Nvidia and its partners will use the familiar USB bus. That implies users will now have to manage several USB cables inside the case, an assumption that an Nvidia executive said was correct.
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The standard has won support from companies such as Dell and HP, as well as component manufacturers like eVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, CoolIT Systems, PC Power & Cooling, SilverStone, CoolerMaster, Tagan. Thermaltake, and XFX. ESA-compliant peripherals will include the PC chassis itself, fans, water cooling equipment, and power supplies, as well as the more traditional graphics card and motherboard.
ESA-compliant devices will be released before the end of 2007, Nvidia executives said.
Through ESA, Nvidia hopes to establish a network of thermal and electrical sensors across the PC, that can be used by an ESA-compliant chipset and graphics card to better manage heat. As the ESA standard evolves, Nvidia hopes to be able to allow the system to essentially map the flow of heated air throughout a PC, letting either a user or the PC itself manage the flow.
To do so, ESA components must build in a series of thermal and electrical sensors inside them, together with a small microcontroller. To connect them to the rest of the system, however, Nvidia and its partners will use the familiar USB bus. That implies users will now have to manage several USB cables inside the case, an assumption that an Nvidia executive said was correct.
Read More @ ExtremeTech
