Adata shows off her project jellyfish, oil-cooled ram memories

Leading hardware manufacturers continually seek ways to innovate and bring new products to the market that stand out. This has been the case of Adata with Project Jellyfish, RAM memories that are cooled with a sink based on mineral oil.

Adata shows her Project Jellyfish memories chilled with oil

RAM is not a component that gets very hot, despite this, manufacturers have insisted on putting large heat sinks that are often unnecessary, especially in low-frequency models. Project Jellyfish is a new prototype of Adata memories that is committed to a liquid cooling solution based on mineral oil.

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At first the idea does not look bad although there are several drawbacks. In the first place, it is true that oil is not conductive of electricity, but this does not mean that it cannot degrade the components for other reasons. When the oil heats up, polar compounds begin to be generated that are not conductors of electricity, it is true that Memories do not generate much heat but it is a process that is going to be maintained many times and for many years, so the oil can suffer a significant degradation of its properties.

Second is the fact that the heatsink shown is methacrylate, a material that is not especially conductive of heat so it will not be easy for heat to pass from the oil to the ambient air, this will undoubtedly help the oil to keep heating and its degradation is greater.

For now Project Jellyfish is still a prototype, we really do not see the need to put an oil-based heatsink to RAM, with a simple piece of aluminum is more than enough to prevent them from overheating.

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