Comments on: This is the Massive AMD Instinct MI300A Heatsink in the Gigabyte G383-R80-AAP1 https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-massive-amd-instinct-mi300a-heatsink-in-the-gigabyte-g383-r80-aap1/ Server and Workstation Reviews Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Rafael Seidl https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-massive-amd-instinct-mi300a-heatsink-in-the-gigabyte-g383-r80-aap1/#comment-601459 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:28:17 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=83592#comment-601459 Time to mandate liquid cooling for chips with a TDP in excess of say, 250W sold in say, 2028 and beyond? That would certainly put the cat among the pigeons.

Won’t happen in the US but maybe in the EU, Japan or other places.

]]> By: Kevin G https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-massive-amd-instinct-mi300a-heatsink-in-the-gigabyte-g383-r80-aap1/#comment-601343 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:44:55 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=83592#comment-601343 I am really curious if AMD is combining heat pipes and a vapor chamber there. The recent tear down of the RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition thermal solution by Gamer’s Nexus had a very impressive thermal solution which combined them for greater thermal efficiency. Doing this at the cooling block level for these servers would seemingly permit air cooling to be viable for a little bit longer with increasing power requirements at the socket level (ie able to cool 700 to 800 W per socket). Systems with 1000 W or more per socket will remain the domain of liquid cooling.

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