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I would never seriously consider overclocking in a production environment.

There is probably buffer tuning you can do in the NIC driver also.



Many organisations run water cooled overclocked servers in production. I have not yet heard of any production use of sub-ambient cooling, but that would be awesome!


Liquid nitrogen cooling is a thing, where maximum per-thread performance is needed, but it provides at best 2x. There are a lot of other things to do first.


Yes and also subambient using heat pumps, but I have never seen it deployed in a data center. How would you deal with condensation?


Control the humidity, bring the temperature up if humidity control fails.


With a small heater to blow hot air over it.


That would work with a heat pump setup. Liquid nitrogen cooling is usually done by evaporating into the air directly on the processor package (as far as I know). So you would always have condensation inside the server case. Hmm, I guess a isolated duct for evaporated nitrogen to escape and heating the outside of that duct to ambient temp.


have everything that's below ambient be submerged in an engineered fluid?


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