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My friend needs an odd sized radiator....

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sandman001

Just Freeze It
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Mar 11, 2003
Ok, so my friend has some wierd little POS case, and he's completely against cutting it. Even after I showed him how well my 120mm blowhole turned out, he said no. He already has a BIM on the front intake 80mm fan of his case, but his temps aren't that great. (water is 32C, cpu is 51C) the water is from a radiochack monitor deal, and cpu is MBM while running prime 95. Yea, I know, not accurate, bear with me. This is in a fairly cool room too.

his setup is:
A7N8X
2400+ @ 2.36ghz with 1.875Vcore
9500pro @ 350/321

Cooled by this:
Maze4->old-style DD gpu block->BIM->via aqua 1300

So, he has two 60mm fans in the back of his case, and he wants to use them to mount a radiator.

I can't find anything this small, my first thought was to get a heatercore and cut/solder the tubing so it would work, but it'd need some serious airflow, and that would be loud.

So, I was thinking of using some copper heatsinks and copper stock. My basic idea was to take some copper stock in a U shape, and just cross-drill a basic path through the U, put barbs on each end, and solder the heatsinks to the inside of the U shape. Make a duct deal for this, and mount it to the fans.

I know, it's probably dumb, and pointless, but hey, he's paying as long it drops his temps some.

Will it work somewhat well? I'd estimate we're dumping 150-170 watts of heat into this loop right now, and it's running pretty warm.
 
can we see a picture of his case or could you list the case?

e.g. even if the holes don't line up, can a radiator actually *fit* ??

or has he ever considered something like an external setup, such as a koolance exos?
 
I don't know what the model of his case is, and I don't have a digicam. :(

I didn't think about whether it would fit or not...hmmm...

As far as external goes, he already has a water cooling system, just looking to improve it.
I don't really think it would be very easy to integrate an Exos into it. I might be able to talk him into an aluminum external box with a couple heatercores, though.
 
i went to advance auto and asked them if i could look in the back and find a copper heater core and they let me and i found one that i wanted bet if you ask nicely you can do the same
 
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