Right now I have 2 radiators in parallel on the top of the case, they both have a 120mm fan blowing air up and out of the case (through the rad)
I have a fan controller that varies the fans according to the watertemp.
I forget the graph and am too lazy to hook it up to read it, but my goal was to keep the water around 32C.. 34C fans reach 100% (which is 7v).
The fans push ~68cfm in freeair, at 12v... the best they can do is 7v in my setup.... at night they're down to 28% of 7v (uses pwm). Overall I'd guess they spin around 400-600rpm most of the time. (12v they do 1750)
The heatercores I got are a little larger than the dtek ones but basically the same. 2" thick 160x160mm cooling area.
I'm building a new case (from scratch) and was wondering if i should reuse the smae rads, which imo are working pretty well. However a fwe times I've read that when dealing with low airflow, heatercores arn't the best because their high resistance and a thinner radiator should be used.
Is there any truth to this?
Reading this article.. http://www.overclockers.com/articles481/index05.asp , when difference air pressures are shown, the radiators that did best with high pressure also did the best with low pressure.
perhaps I'm reading it wrong or missing something... but I would like to make sure I'm not losing out by using these heatercore sytle rads.
I have a fan controller that varies the fans according to the watertemp.
I forget the graph and am too lazy to hook it up to read it, but my goal was to keep the water around 32C.. 34C fans reach 100% (which is 7v).
The fans push ~68cfm in freeair, at 12v... the best they can do is 7v in my setup.... at night they're down to 28% of 7v (uses pwm). Overall I'd guess they spin around 400-600rpm most of the time. (12v they do 1750)
The heatercores I got are a little larger than the dtek ones but basically the same. 2" thick 160x160mm cooling area.
I'm building a new case (from scratch) and was wondering if i should reuse the smae rads, which imo are working pretty well. However a fwe times I've read that when dealing with low airflow, heatercores arn't the best because their high resistance and a thinner radiator should be used.
Is there any truth to this?
Reading this article.. http://www.overclockers.com/articles481/index05.asp , when difference air pressures are shown, the radiators that did best with high pressure also did the best with low pressure.
perhaps I'm reading it wrong or missing something... but I would like to make sure I'm not losing out by using these heatercore sytle rads.