Whole Server Rack Watercooling

[LahryMusic]

This seemed like an interesting topic, if anyone could do it Linus would be the man. The idea is to watercool an entire server rack like the do in datacentres, but maybe make it a bout more exciting with RGB.

[RadiatingLight]

wrong place for this. this is for forum feature suggestions (ex. "There should be a way to do X on the forum")

[mpsparrow]

Cool idea and all, but I see a problem with Linus doing this. He would need to redo the entire server room (which he like just did) and the price tag to watercool all the servers would be pricey as heck, offering little to no performance difference.

 

You also need to remember that in data centers (like Google or Amazon) they get custom made everything and a rack is full of the same servers, not a bunch of different stuff (UPS, storage, routers, switches, etc.).

[Electronics Wizardy]

For a server room this is almost never done. You have lots more points of failure. Normally you just have a cooling unit that pump hot air from the hot isle to the cold isle and cools it. Even if you water cooled you would still need this as there is lots of heat made from things that can't be easily watercooled.

[LogicalDrm]

Note: Not expert in these things.

 

I was under impression big datacenters only do general cooling with water. Not with individual servers. So they are keeping overall temps at reasonable temps (18C?) by pumping cool water around the place.

[NLD1st]

4 hours ago, mpsparrow said:

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3 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

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I think the OP has something in mind from the supercomputer vod LTT released recently. 

The door on the server rack was one huge rad with cold water in it. When air got pulled in trough that door it would enter the serverrack cold. Think he wants Linus to do this DIY/LTT style. 

[LogicalDrm]

1 minute ago, NLD1st said:

 

 

 

I think the OP has something in mind from the supercomputer vod LTT released recently. 

The door on the server rack was one huge rad with cold water in it. When air got pulled in trough that door it would enter the serverrack cold. 

Think he wants Linus to do that DIY style. 

.... Which is pretty much the idea behind every watercooler ever and also what I thought cooling was overall about in datacenters. WC'ing every CPU and GPU would be just stupid insane idea.

 

But from the door idea we land into whole room and how well that turned out.

[Kevo05s]

I think 3M Novec immersion cooling would be even cooler to try and showoff

[LahryMusic]

22 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Note: Not expert in these things.

 

I was under impression big datacenters only do general cooling with water. Not with individual servers. So they are keeping overall temps at reasonable temps (18C?) by pumping cool water around the place.

Yea, most datacenters do.; I would just be interested ins seeing how Linus would go about it.

[LogicalDrm]

3 minutes ago, arcticfox159 said:

Yea, most datacenters do.; I would just be interested ins seeing how Linus would go about it.

Probably flooding whole office /s.