Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Water Cooling is Broken”.
Hey lld, I get to watch a birthday. W show yay happy birthday being the water cooling nut. You are. What do you think is missing from the water cooling water cooling space that you would make to make it easier? Oh, that’s a good question. I mean okay, this has been attempted time and time and time again and I think, with additive manufacturing, maybe we’re finally going to get there pretty soon. But do you remember uh, do you remember dtec Unis, syncs? Well, there’s a uh. Is this very old yeah? I think so yeah uh here we go.
Let me see if I can. Let me see if I can find a picture in this article uh here we go by the way. Lots of feedback in the FL plan chat about how awful SharePoint is so sick yeah. Maybe we’ll maybe we’ll just be going with Google Docs after this is a unisync yeah. It’S a heat seat, sync designed to go onto your GPU along with a um Manan. This is not going to be great qu; okay, no we’re not going to be able to zoom that far there we go along with a GPU block that handles cooling, the the graphics processing unit itself, uh to handle the RAM and vrms, and all of that good Stuff uh: let’s go ahead and go to installation here, so the finished installation should look a little something like this: a block to handle the actual heat generating components and then a big heat sink fin array that shouldn’t need too much air flow over it.
In order to handle the rest, now, I think with modern gddr 6X, and I mean presumably whatever is coming after that. It may be optimistic to handle those components with basic heat sinks like that, so maybe maybe a future like this will will – or maybe I shouldn’t say, a future like this. Maybe something like this will never be possible again in the future, but I think it would be absolutely incredible if we could go back to non PCB specific GPU blocks and just use a standardized block just like we do on CPUs with a hold down plate that You can swap out if you get a new GPU and then just uh. I don’t know whether it’s whether it’s like you know a company that designs these, these Unis syncs these these cooling, these aluminum cool plates or you know whether they design them and stock them or whether they measure everything. And then you know they just 3D print them. Out of you know, aluminum on demand, I’m not aware of anyone, who’s doing additive manufacturing with aluminum just yet, but I know you can 3D print in some metals and then you just order one and they basically print it kind of you know sand down the bottom. So that it’s flat and offers a good, you know mounting mounting surface, and then you you just get it in the mail or whatever it should be. It should be theoretically a fraction of the cost of these all copper machined from a giant hunk of metal, uh, single GPU solutions that we have today uh and I I would love to see that return, because it’s one of the things that makes water cooling so Expensive, a pump you can carry forward to multiple builds a reservoir.
You can carry forward from multiple builds. I used my last D5 pump for over 10 years before it finally gave up the ghost and a Reservoir. If you maintain it properly, there’s no reason that you couldn’t use it longer than that, especially if it’s a good Reservoir that uses o-ring seals rather than just um gluing, together acrylic panels, so CPU block, unless you must have another degree off or two degrees off or Whatever you could still be using a CPU block from 10 years ago, nothing would prevent that the one piece that you have to spend $ 150 on plus every time is a GPU block. So if you could just spend you know 70 80 bucks on one once and then every generation you spend 20 30 bucks on a new all-in-one heat sink.
I I could. I could see it being more accessible because it’s still a gigantic upfront investment, but at least it’s something where you are carrying forward the vast majority of these components, as you continue to upgrade your system over the years. So that that’s something that I that I think I would change if I could. Apparently there are some rocket and defense companies that are doing aluminum additive manufacturing, okay, so yeah, maybe we’re maybe we’re not that far off. That would be super cool. .