Flourinert for DRAM cooling? Is it needed, or just marketing?

[VirtualLarry]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12323/adata-at-ces-2018-jellyfish-dram

 

[snarfbot]

id lean toward absolutely not lol

especially as its encased in plastic of all things.

 

[Campy]

It's probably more for aesthetics. Having the fluid bubbling a little bit with some RGB LEDs under will definitely appeal to someone. I'm curious whether this will actually make it to market though.

 

[IntelUser2000]

I don't see a reason to doubt cooling benefits, but on PC DRAM, the advantages of having such cooling is minimal. Regular DDR4 modules without even a simple heatsink is fine for them.

When efficient blue LEDs were thought of a few years ago, companies started plastering electronics of all sorts with blue LEDs everywhere. We still have speakers that use such blue LEDs for an indicator light. It's annoying as hell, because blue is one of the colors that's particularly bothersome to our vision, but they did it, apparently to reduce costs by mass producing it.

(BTW, any geniuses thinking of using blue LEDs as an indicator light for their fancy electronics project, DON'T! Use green, which is pleasant to see, heck red wasn't too bad. Blue just makes me want to smack people. Blue LEDs in christmas time makes the entire house look blurry)

Back to the point. It's an offshoot of the RGB LED rage. Apparently we are suckers for shiny things, so everything with LEDs on them makes it more attractive to buyers, allowing sellers to overcharge for them. PC markets are very low margin, so manufacturers will jump at any opportunity to sell higher cost items.

 

[tracerbullet]

On the upside, if it leaks, it won't hurt anything.

 

[hal2kilo]

It's probably more for aesthetics. Having the fluid bubbling a little bit with some RGB LEDs under will definitely appeal to someone. I'm curious whether this will actually make it to market though.

Reminds me of the old timey Christmas lights with the fluid tube.

 

[Johnny Lucky]

Larry,

I am inclined to think it is marketing more than anything else. Companies have to keep coming up with new ideas to generate revenue. Some of those ideas are of questionable value.

Personally, I have always used plain, standard height memory modules. They work for me.

 

[aigomorla]

modules is that by using a sealed and clear plastic case around the memory chips, the case can be filled with a non-conductive liquid, such as 3M Novec/Fluorinert that we have seen in custom PCs and server cooling. These chemicals, basically long chain hydrocarbons with funny bits on the end, are liquid at room temperature but can eventually change state into a gas and rise. That state change can absorb a lot of energy being produced, and as long as the energy is removed and the chemicals become liquid again by cooling down, the liquid forms a convection current and in essence, a heat pump.

ok seriously i hope the guys at gskill is just messing with it because first off plastic is a terrible conductor.
You need a conductive surface to exchange heat.
Yes fluorinert is a great medium, ive even got to play with it a bit myself, but its a medium which does not magically gobble heat.
Its a heat transfer medium used to carry heat from A -> B.

Without a proper heat exchanger for the liquid, it would just get hotter and hotter and hotter by the laws of thermodynamics, which state energy can not be created or destroyed. So the heat would need to move out of the system somehow and plastic is a really poor way to do so.

So they talk about heat pump and cooling down, yet im lost in HOW.... again plastic is a really poor conductor.

On the upside, if it leaks, it won't hurt anything.

assuming it hits nothing.

if it picks up a lot of dust or contaminants, then BAM, you now just got a conductive liquid.