The thing that I wish would go away is oversized graphics cards that take up 3 or more slots. There needs to be more options for liquid cooling that doesn’t require modifying the card.
I am thinking that maybe more liquid cooling will happen with the whole AI thing on the datacenter side. That has a lot of parallel compute cards generating a lot of heat. Easier to move it with liquid than air.
Some other liquid-cooling annoyances:
Cases don’t really have a standard-size mounting spot for the radiators.
I want to use one radiator for all of the things that require cooling. Like, I’d rather have an AIO device that provides multiple cold plates.
I really doubt liquid is easier for a data center. They have airflow solved pretty well and noise doesn’t really matter. Liquid failing could potentially do way more damage, and might require shutting down whole areas for repair/damage prevention in the case of a single leak.
If they did do liquid at scale, it wouldn’t be done in a way it would work down to consumers. It would be like custom boards with full coverage blocks for the whole system that tied into whole room water chillers or something.
The thing that I wish would go away is oversized graphics cards that take up 3 or more slots. There needs to be more options for liquid cooling that doesn’t require modifying the card.
That would require cooler mount standards. I don’t think AMD or Nvidia currently have a standard.
I am thinking that maybe more liquid cooling will happen with the whole AI thing on the datacenter side. That has a lot of parallel compute cards generating a lot of heat. Easier to move it with liquid than air.
Some other liquid-cooling annoyances:
Cases don’t really have a standard-size mounting spot for the radiators.
I want to use one radiator for all of the things that require cooling. Like, I’d rather have an AIO device that provides multiple cold plates.
I really doubt liquid is easier for a data center. They have airflow solved pretty well and noise doesn’t really matter. Liquid failing could potentially do way more damage, and might require shutting down whole areas for repair/damage prevention in the case of a single leak.
If they did do liquid at scale, it wouldn’t be done in a way it would work down to consumers. It would be like custom boards with full coverage blocks for the whole system that tied into whole room water chillers or something.