Patent ID: 7715194

Claim:
A cooling system for cooling one or more heat generating devices within a personal computer, the cooling system comprising: a. a personal computer chassis; b. one or more circuit boards mounted within the personal computer chassis, each circuit board including one or more heat generating devices; c. a primary heat exchanging system including a thermal bus and a first fluid passing therethrough, wherein the thermal bus is configured to thermally interface with one or more first heat exchanging devices, wherein the primary heat exchanging system is a closed system contained within the personal computer chassis and is configured to cool the first fluid therein; d. one or more fluid based cooling systems, each fluid based cooling system includes at least one of the first heat exchanging devices thermally coupled to the thermal bus and at least one second heat exchanging device, wherein each fluid based cooling system is thermally coupled to a corresponding one or more circuit boards such that each second heat exchanging device is thermally coupled to one of the heat generating devices on the corresponding one or more circuit boards, further wherein each fluid based cooling system includes a second fluid to receive heat transferred from each heat generating device of the corresponding one or more circuit boards via the second heat exchanging device; and e. a thermal interface coupled to the thermal bus and the first heat exchanging device of each fluid based cooling system to transfer heat between the first fluid and the second fluid.