There are many exotic forms of chip cooling in the wild, such as immersion cooling and liquid nitrogen cooling. But one cooling paradigm you might not have heard of is spray cooling, used by some supercomputers. Famous German overclocker Der8auer showed off the capabilities of spray cooling in a recent video, cooling a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU by spraying a non-conductive mist right on top of the IHS.
Spray cooling functions just as it sounds; nozzles are placed above a CPU or GPU that sprays mist right on…








