ZTE Shows Off Immersion Server Liquid Cooling at MWC
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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.
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
