Immersion Cooling for multiple workstations

[Mike Jimenez]

Budget (including currency): 2K USD

Country: Mexico

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Large CAD projects, image and animation rendering, CNC programing

 

This is more of a challenge of building a 4 PC workstation that underload remains under 50°C, for the PCs we are using multiple GPU configuration, using Nvidia Quadro and for one system Nvidia Tesla Cards, this cards are not designed for the conventional water cooling systems so we were thinking about immersion cooling considering the Engineering Fluids EC-100 dielectric for our immersion tank, for the rack where the motherboards are gonna be we were considering aluminium frames like the ones used for 3d printers so we can easily modify it and for the rest of the system we need a pump and a way to cool the fluid down.

 

After extensive research on the internet I was able to find almost nothing regarding the temperatures in immersion cooling systems with the EC-100 wich is primarily used for minning systems

 

What we want to know is, are we going to get even close to the goal we want?

We were thinking of using a car radiator to cool down the fluid, but is this overkill? is it enough? we also tought of having the tank inside a freezer (Thank you Linus for warning me about that)

Is there a better way of cooling this GPUs?

What other considerations should we keep in mind like where the heat is going to go, or tell me why this is the worst idea you´d ever heard.

 

[ki8aras]

2 minutes ago, Mike Jimenez said:

Budget (including currency): 2K USD

Country: Mexico

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Large CAD projects, image and animation rendering, CNC programing

 

This is more of a challenge of building a 4 PC workstation that underload remains under 50°C, for the PCs we are using multiple GPU configuration, using Nvidia Quadro and for one system Nvidia Tesla Cards, this cards are not designed for the conventional water cooling systems so we were thinking about immersion cooling considering the Engineering Fluids EC-100 dielectric for our immersion tank, for the rack where the motherboards are gonna be we were considering aluminium frames like the ones used for 3d printers so we can easily modify it and for the rest of the system we need a pump and a way to cool the fluid down.

 

After extensive research on the internet I was able to find almost nothing regarding the temperatures in immersion cooling systems with the EC-100 wich is primarily used for minning systems

 

What we want to know is, are we going to get even close to the goal we want?

We were thinking of using a car radiator to cool down the fluid, but is this overkill? is it enough? we also tought of having the tank inside a freezer (Thank you Linus for warning me about that)

Is there a better way of cooling this GPUs?

What other considerations should we keep in mind like where the heat is going to go, or tell me why this is the worst idea you´d ever heard.

 

i highly doubt that immersion cooling will get you the desired results, the best solution imo would be normal watercooling, i think you will be able to find some very specialized blocks for those cards that will make it work

[LIGISTX]

2 minutes ago, Mike Jimenez said:

Budget (including currency): 2K USD

Country: Mexico

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Large CAD projects, image and animation rendering, CNC programing

 

This is more of a challenge of building a 4 PC workstation that underload remains under 50°C, for the PCs we are using multiple GPU configuration, using Nvidia Quadro and for one system Nvidia Tesla Cards, this cards are not designed for the conventional water cooling systems so we were thinking about immersion cooling considering the Engineering Fluids EC-100 dielectric for our immersion tank, for the rack where the motherboards are gonna be we were considering aluminium frames like the ones used for 3d printers so we can easily modify it and for the rest of the system we need a pump and a way to cool the fluid down.

 

After extensive research on the internet I was able to find almost nothing regarding the temperatures in immersion cooling systems with the EC-100 wich is primarily used for minning systems

 

What we want to know is, are we going to get even close to the goal we want?

We were thinking of using a car radiator to cool down the fluid, but is this overkill? is it enough? we also tought of having the tank inside a freezer (Thank you Linus for warning me about that)

Is there a better way of cooling this GPUs?

What other considerations should we keep in mind like where the heat is going to go, or tell me why this is the worst idea you´d ever heard.

 

I guess the real question is why..?

 

Usually when you are dealing with Quadros and Teslas... your doing "actual work", so I wouldn't add the complexity associated with that. There is no reason to, it does you no real world good except adding complexity and "nonstandard-ness". What is the point of 50c or less?

[jj9987]

Are you trying to build 4 workstations with Quadro/Tesla cards for a total of 2K? Or 2k for each workstation? Those GPUs are quite expensive.

[Mike Jimenez]

13 hours ago, ki8aras said:

i highly doubt that immersion cooling will get you the desired results, the best solution imo would be normal watercooling, i think you will be able to find some very specialized blocks for those cards that will make it work

I've seen some of those special blocks from nzxt but arent those for systems with only 1 gpu? Havent checked but one of the computers im gonna use have 3 graphics card and I dont think I can fit the water blocks

 

13 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

I guess the real question is why..?

 

Usually when you are dealing with Quadros and Teslas... your doing "actual work", so I wouldn't add the complexity associated with that. There is no reason to, it does you no real world good except adding complexity and "nonstandard-ness". What is the point of 50c or less?

Short answer: I think the same but thats not my call

Something I can ad is that we are located in a very hot place

 

13 hours ago, jj9987 said:

Are you trying to build 4 workstations with Quadro/Tesla cards for a total of 2K? Or 2k for each workstation? Those GPUs are quite expensive.

Sorry for not specifying, the 2k is only for the tank and cooling system and any aditaments we may need

 

Thank you all for answering

[ki8aras]

11 hours ago, Mike Jimenez said:

I've seen some of those special blocks from nzxt but arent those for systems with only 1 gpu? Havent checked but one of the computers im gonna use have 3 graphics card and I dont think I can fit the water blocks

 

Short answer: I think the same but thats not my call

Something I can ad is that we are located in a very hot place

 

Sorry for not specifying, the 2k is only for the tank and cooling system and any aditaments we may need

 

Thank you all for answering

you might not be able to get blocks made for the cards that you have but you might be able to get blocks that are compatible,for example blocks that works on the titan v also work on the gv100