ML
    • Recent
    • Categories
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Register
    • Login

    ZTE Shows Off Immersion Server Liquid Cooling at MWC

    News
    zte datacenter liquid cooling cooling anandtech youtube
    8
    25
    2.5k
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @DustinB3403
      last edited by

      I've been hearing of data centers that use liquid cooling for most of my IT career. It becomes more economical once you've reached a certain point.

      Believe it or not, it's very easy to do with just some mineral oil at home. If water happens to get into the system, it just floats on the top and remains easy to skim off. Dust isn't so much of an issue, with a normal replacement cycle for computers just change the oil when the computer equipment gets changed. I've also heard that plain mineral oil can wear away electrical components. I've never experimented with this myself, so this is all 2nd hand stuff I've heard over the years.

      scottalanmillerS 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @travisdh1
        last edited by

        @travisdh1 said in ZTE Shows Off Immersion Server Liquid Cooling at MWC:

        I've been hearing of data centers that use liquid cooling for most of my IT career. It becomes more economical once you've reached a certain point.

        The big bank on Wall St. that I was at put in chilled water cooling while I was there.

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @travisdh1
          last edited by

          @travisdh1 said in ZTE Shows Off Immersion Server Liquid Cooling at MWC:

          Believe it or not, it's very easy to do with just some mineral oil at home. If water happens to get into the system, it just floats on the top and remains easy to skim off. Dust isn't so much of an issue, with a normal replacement cycle for computers just change the oil when the computer equipment gets changed. I've also heard that plain mineral oil can wear away electrical components. I've never experimented with this myself, so this is all 2nd hand stuff I've heard over the years.

          That stuff is messy, though. That's where a lot of the hesitation about liquid cooling comes from, I think.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller
            last edited by

            I would really need to see this myself to believe it. Even with mineral oil you need some kind of heat spreader. I can see this working no problem with a modest hunk of copper on the CPU but bare? Yikes.

            sceptical.jpg

            scottalanmillerS 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
              last edited by

              @mattspeller said in ZTE Shows Off Immersion Server Liquid Cooling at MWC:

              I would really need to see this myself to believe it. Even with mineral oil you need some kind of heat spreader. I can see this working no problem with a modest hunk of copper on the CPU but bare? Yikes.

              sceptical.jpg

              They show them working with no spreaders on the video. Mineral oil doesn't cool anything like a two phase. It's not "even with mineral oil", because it's among the bad options. It moves heat well, but moves physically very slowly. The two phase moves heat SO quickly.

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
              • 1
              • 2
              • 2 / 2
              • First post
                Last post