new waterblock/radiator design

[alpha_gamer]

I thought of a new idea for the radiator and the wator block of a water cooled system, most radiotors have small metal links in between the tubes for water flow, but i was thinking that if you extended those and stuck a nice 120mm fan on top (or maybe even have them extended throught the bottom and have another 120mm fan there) you could cool a lot more efficiently. Plus i have some thoughts on how to make this at home and save some cash. I have also thought that this same idea could be applied to the cpu's water block, by putting the intake and outake valves on the side of the water block there would be room to extend some fins out of it and add another fan to it. Any ideas? :eh?:

[SniperXX]

Sounds cool. But not too sure how well it would cool tho. :eh?:

[cheez]

Interesting idea. For the radiator it could be effective... but you'd need to make it out of the same piece of metal. It wouldn't be effective if there was some sort of bonding between the two metals.

I think the effect of making longer fins on the radiator would lead to a higher max watts that it can take.

As for using fins on the outside of waterblock really isn't as efficient as having them inside of your waterblock. Water conducts heat much better than air.

[cack01]

So basically your talking about making a radiator based on a heatsink design??

[alpha_gamer]

umm.. okay, for the first two posts, i would be using water to pump through the radiator. hence water cooling. but yeah, i guess it's based on heatsink/fan design.

[cack01]

I don't think it would do anything at all for a water block, but for a radiator I think it could do a good job. It would improve the surface area by quite a bit.

[alpha_gamer]

i have drawn some schematics of the waterblock i am planning

[Silver]

Like the fact that you are thinking. Tell me, would you extend the fins through the block and if so how would you seal the top of the block? I like the side entrance though and think that a 1U cooler plated tightly in copper on the sides and top along with multiple inputs/outputs on the sides might serve well for pelt cooling.

On all of my waterblocks, the surface of the waterblock was cool to the touch indicating that the water was working well. On the pelt blocks the waterblock does get warm (above ambient) and air cooling on the block might be designed so as to enhance pelt cooling.

[alpha_gamer]

the fins in the waterblock are not going fully through it, there are small fins inside of it to increase the surface area, the fins on the outside are connected only to the top of the block and will help with cooling

[Silver]

That's doable (sp).