CES: Adata project Jellyfish

[NumLock21]

Not a actual product or any plans to even make it into production, but CES is a place where tech companies gets to show off some cool prototypes or concept stuffs and Adata's project Jellyfish is one of them. It's a ram enclosed with a sealed acrylic heat spreader filled with mineral oil.

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"Project Jellyfish." This is a proof-of-concept that memory modules can be cooled with a "liquid heatsink" made of mineral oil, an electrically non-conductive liquid that can conduct some heat, and is used in oil immersed PCs, and to cool large transformers in power distribution grids.

 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/240479/adata-shows-off-project-jellyfish-a-mineral-oil-based-dimm-heatspreader

[mynameisjuan]

But why....

[Shreyas1]

But can it run a Minecraft server?

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Definitely needs some heat fins to dissipate heat from the oil. This is probably just a prototype to show off the possibility of mineral oil RAM cooling.

5 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

But why....

If you build it, someone will buy it. 

[bcredeur97]

sure the oil will hold a lot of heat.. but it doesn't exactly disperse it to the air

[Sauron]

Cool, but useless.

2 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

sure the oil will hold a lot of heat.. but it doesn't exactly disperse it to the air

I don't think this is about cooling as much as it is about swag. Still, the heat does in fact disperse into the air - just not as efficiently as a proper radiator or even a normal heatsink would.

[Taf the Ghost]

2 hours ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Definitely needs some heat fins to dissipate heat from the oil. This is probably just a prototype to show off the possibility of mineral oil RAM cooling.

If you build it, someone will buy it. 

At minimum, LTT will want a set.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

sure the oil will hold a lot of heat.. but it doesn't exactly disperse it to the air

I'm almost certain most mineral oil setups include pumping the oil through a radiator.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I'm almost certain most mineral oil setups include pumping the oil through a radiator.

They just pour the whole thing in.

[Bit_Guardian]

2 hours ago, mynameisjuan said:

But why....

High speed datacenter RAM would actually be possible with this, the diffusion surface is now both larger and more efficient.

[mynameisjuan]

1 minute ago, Bit_Guardian said:

High speed datacenter RAM would actually be possible with this, the diffusion surface is now both larger and more efficient.

Dude I know. Other than very specific situations OC'd ram doesnt matter and even it if did, you sure as fuck dont need to water/oil cool it. 

[samcool55]

Well that's going to be great if it ever starts to leak...

[DarkBlade2117]

3 hours ago, samcool55 said:

Well that's going to be great if it ever starts to leak...

You do know what mineral oil is right?

[DarkBlade2117]

1 hour ago, huilun02 said:

It will create a terrible mess that wont harm electronics but will be a bitch to clean off. Anyway the case of oil will not do much in the long run.

It isn't really that bad... I feel like you have little patience because that's really all it is.