G+_610GARAGE Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 As someone who water cools their servers, this peeked my interest. Water Cooling without water blocks. What they did was etched coolant paths into the ic. Then applied a new silicone layer over the passageways and attached hose fittings. The idea being, directly cooling the chip is more efficient than cooling a copper heatsink. I wonder if this type of system can be made cheap enough, at the factory (it's still in the lab for now), if we will see a resurgence of watercooling. I am especially thinking of data centers. Using chilled water with cooling towers may be more efficient than trying to cool the ambient air down to 60f. Or even just geothermal wells without heat pumps to cool the servers. http://hackaday.com/2015/10/05/georgia-tech-pumps-water-through-silicon-for-chip-cooling/ http://hackaday.com/2015/10/05/georgia-tech-pumps-water-through-silicon-for-chip-cooling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 So that's how we're going to cool the stacked components when they get here. I'll go ahead and predict powerful gaming desktop computers in the same footprint of a CPU today, only a little taller. The future always takes too long to arrive, hurry it up engineers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_610GARAGE Posted October 7, 2015 Author Share Posted October 7, 2015 Joel Wilson I can definitely understand that. But, this is not using any unusual processes. Manufactures could do this now. But they have to adopt it. Which means that you are probably right. This will never make it to the market. Manufactures don't want to cover warranty for water damage, and sys admins don't want to be plumbers. But we can dream. Can't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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