- Joined
- Jan 7, 2004
- Location
- Orono, Maine (USA, Earth)
You know what I think we need? General Tips For Purchasing a Custom Waterooling System. For an optimal design one must consider the following:
A) The less heat the pump puts into the water the less heat has to be removed by the heatercore.
B) But at the sametime flowrate has an impact on cooling performance and usually higher flow/pressure pumps dump more heat into the water.
C) Some systems react to flowrate changes differently.. i.e. a White Water block has a larger performance increase than a Swifty for a given increase in flowrate.
So basically it boils down to this:
# How does one go about creating a high perfomance cooling solution?
# How do you balance all of these variables into something that is efficent?
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Critique my planned system:
Iwaki MD-20RLZT
2 x Chevette Heater Cores in Parallel (shrouded in Push/Pull config.)
D-Tek WW Poly Top
D-Tek Chipset Cooler in Parallel with GPU Cooler*
* Still looking for GPU Cooler without Aluminum
Here are things I am positive about :
- I do not want any aluminum in my system
- I want the WW CPU Block (Cascade would be better... but I cant get one)
- I want two heater cores.
Now would this system benefit from a different pump? I am not really factoring in the price/performance issue because I want my water cooling system to be somewhat future proof and extendable. The pumps I am considering are:
* MD - 30 RLZT
* MD - 20 RLZT
* Johnson CM30P7-1
But how does one know without actually buying all the pieces, calculating flowrate and C/W for the heatercore if the system is efficent?
A) The less heat the pump puts into the water the less heat has to be removed by the heatercore.
B) But at the sametime flowrate has an impact on cooling performance and usually higher flow/pressure pumps dump more heat into the water.
C) Some systems react to flowrate changes differently.. i.e. a White Water block has a larger performance increase than a Swifty for a given increase in flowrate.
So basically it boils down to this:
# How does one go about creating a high perfomance cooling solution?
# How do you balance all of these variables into something that is efficent?
============================================
Critique my planned system:
Iwaki MD-20RLZT
2 x Chevette Heater Cores in Parallel (shrouded in Push/Pull config.)
D-Tek WW Poly Top
D-Tek Chipset Cooler in Parallel with GPU Cooler*
* Still looking for GPU Cooler without Aluminum
Here are things I am positive about :
- I do not want any aluminum in my system
- I want the WW CPU Block (Cascade would be better... but I cant get one)
- I want two heater cores.
Now would this system benefit from a different pump? I am not really factoring in the price/performance issue because I want my water cooling system to be somewhat future proof and extendable. The pumps I am considering are:
* MD - 30 RLZT
* MD - 20 RLZT
* Johnson CM30P7-1
But how does one know without actually buying all the pieces, calculating flowrate and C/W for the heatercore if the system is efficent?