Patent ID: 8190303

Claim:
A system to dissipate heat in an information handling system, the system comprising: a first heat-generating component adapted to process first data; a second heat-generating component adapted to process second data; a cooling fluid guide comprising an electroactive material, wherein the cooling fluid guide is adapted to change from a first shape to a second shape in response to receiving a trigger voltage, and to change from the second shape to the first shape in response to no longer receiving the trigger voltage; and a controller adapted to detect a data load processed at the second heat-generating component and, in response to detecting the data load, to change the trigger voltage the cooling fluid guide, wherein the controller decreases the trigger voltage in proportion to increasing data load at the heat-generating component; wherein the cooling fluid guide is adapted to direct an increased portion of cooling fluid away from the first heat-generating component and toward the second heat-generating component when the cooling fluid guide is in a form of the second shape, as compared to the first shape; wherein the controller signals a power source to supply the trigger voltage after determining that a second data load processed at the second heat-generating component exceeds a first data load processed at the first heat-generating component.