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It's not that different from gaming AIOs. Personally I'm surprised they used water instead of heat pipes.
by wmf 2y ago
It's not that different from gaming AIOs. Personally I'm surprised they used water instead of heat pipes.
- geerlingguy 2y agoA lot of the high-end datacenter racks are getting water cooling now—you have a unit in the base of the rack that distributes water to all the servers above with a couple redundant pumps/PSUs. Some systems are even water cooling random little components for completely fanless 1U/2U servers... I wonder about the longevity of those systems though! With the water cooling, you can pipe all that water out to chillers and at a certain heat volume it makes more sense than handling all the heat in air exchangers.
- wmf 2y agoRight, but that's not what AMD is doing here. They're using water to move heat a few inches. Heat pipes should be more efficient at that distance.