copper spiral waterblock

Here's an idea for a waterblock somebody might try. It sounds to obvious but it might work.

Start with the inlet going venting directly over the cpu, straight down.

The inlet terminates into a square chamber made of thick copper (the main heatspreader) that has an exit on each side. There is a spike or spiral of copper leading up the shaft that functions as preheater and flow divider.

Leading from the exits are separate copper pipes, as thickwalled as possible (still speading heat), that meet at a plastic union where the water is taken to be cooled/recycled.

Just a thought anyway.

draw a pic...

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The basic idea is you take a block of copper, drill though it twice all the way for the side holes and once halfway for the top, then use screw/solder thick copper piping.

you mean have a big rod sticking up from the center? if so, that wil just deflect the water when it hits the top of it, not really do much.

It won't work.

a) it's too restrictive
b) in order for the twisting rod to work, it would have to be a lot more agressive, making it even more restrictive.
c) The circular motion throws the heavier water molecules to the outside, and those happen to be the cold ones...
d) once the water enters the chamber, it'll shoot straight out to the sides, and completely bypass the baseplate, and that's what you really want to cool.

I toyed with this idea, after someone proposed (and tried) mounting a pump right into a block.