we're here at kutex 2024 to look at what
might be one of the biggest Innovations in water cooling in years and years this
right here is the cold plate of an aiio but all of it has been metal 3D printed
onto here and it is so flipping cool now
how an AIO works is pretty simple you've got your radiator right here that yeets
the heat out got a pump that pumps the water around but the bit that we are
interested in is the cold plate right here and that can have a huge impact on
your performance because how good this is at getting the heat out of your CPU
can be completely transformative to how good your AIO can perform and what we
have here is from fabric 8 Labs if you
look instead of your typical fins that will just be like skyed on we have
complete freedom of what geometry we want one of the most important things
for getting your CPU cool is having loads of surface area of the copper
above it now in the past that was done through skying basically you take a
really sharp blade and a whole bunch of weight and you just push off a tiny
little sliver a whole bunch of times but the problem is that with this process
you have no control over the geometry besides just how thick the copper is and
how big the space is between each fin now though we can do stuff like this or
like this or like this and we have complete Freedom over over the flow path
completely and the most insane thing they used AI in a way that's not just
completely stupid this is a cold plate that's optimized for Threadripper so
those are massive and also because Threadripper has multiple dieses you
can have some really hot spots on there and it can be really difficult to get
that heat away evenly but what they have done here is by having that heat map put
into an AI model they were able to generate a whole bunch of different ways
to do the flow path and they eventually came up with this right here as the
absolute best option and it is crazy
like if you look where the die is here they have some little blockers so most
of the flow will be going over your really hot bits and then you can have
way less flow on the outsides here it's
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is a really cool example of how you can change the pitch of the
fins on your heat sink so that you can optimize for the size of your pump so if
you look on this side they are really really tight and that is going to mean
that you're going to have a whole lot of pressure and super high velocity of your
fluid but if you do that across your entire heat sink like you would if you
had a whole bunch of really tight Sky fins you're going to need a massive pump
to push water through all of that so instead here you can see that on the
right it's super dense but then it gets progressively less dense as we go across
so that you can have a whole bunch of high pressure high velocity fluid on the
right but then maybe over here if you don't care as much about the thermal
performance it's a bit easier on your pump system I've been following fabric 8
Labs for a little bit and their 3D printed water cooling stuff but what I
was not expecting was anytime in like the next 10 years to see it as a
commercial product but that's what we have right here they have teamed up with
acch to make a completely 3D printed
coal plate and they say that for every 100 Watts that your CPU outputs this
rate here can drop 2° C so say that you
have a 300 W CPU that means that you have 6° more cooling with this guy that
is crazy I've been talking about 3D printing but uh how the heck 3D printing
well it's a thing that's called electrochemical additive manufacturing
or ecam for sure it's kind of like putting together Electro plating and 3D
printing into one thing and also some display technology it's sort of like
OLED I'll explain it the process is
similar to an SLA printer so we have our build plate on the top and our print
head down on the bottom which is sort of like an OLED panel but instead of pixels
that create photons to display an image it has little electrodes that create a
current to deposit copper onto our build plate these pixels have incredible
density 33 microns and you can have
about two of them to create a feature for a feature size of just 60 microns or
70 maybe that's really freaking small
smaller than a human hair how you turn that current into copper is by Just
Simply Having copper that is dissolved into water and this is very cheap and
very available it is super common used in electr plating so it's actually not a
very expensive process and if if you know anything about displays they are
pretty much the only thing that has just kept on getting cheaper and cheaper and
cheaper and being able to use that technology for your 3D printer means
that we're not having to do any super crazy uh laser burning copper or stuff
like that that's incredibly expensive instead it's actually quite scalable
which is how we have a real product that's going to exist sometime in the
near future now the process isn't particularly fast they're getting about
1 mm per hour but you are able to have four of these on a build Plate at a time
and the machines themselves are not particularly expensive so even though
you need a lot of them it doesn't get too out of hand too fast now acch won't
tell us exactly when they're expecting for this to hit the market but they said
somewhere around Q3 Q4 this year and the
pricing again TBD but they said it'll be
a premium and given that the ryogen that it's going into is already pretty
premium priced I don't think it'll be cheap but that said the 3D printing
technology has lots more uses than coal plates like this one really cool example
that they have here are some radar sensors for cars so those are looking
out and seeing if there's you know a car in front of you for your adaptive cruise
and stuff like that but the problem is that a traditional antenna just kind of
yeets out electric waves that way this
right here instead by using that metal 3D printing is able to very precisely
control it so that you can have a really wide beam this way but not a very wide
beam this way cuz you don't care about what's happening on the ground or the
sky you just want to see the cyclist that's right there somewhere here you
can see the inner geometry of how they able to create that really cool beam
pattern and one of the best parts is that the whole process is done at room
temperature so you don't have to be doing any crazy stuff like heating up
your metal to super high temperatures just like you don't have to heat up to
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