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Talk about no restriction, that is what the block looks like from inside. NOTHING. How much are they selling this thing for again?
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But the poeple who buy this are looking for better cooling than a passive heatsink, hence why they buy it. Swiftech could've add a few dimples and it woud'nt have hurt flow rates at all and would've offered much better performance but there's nothing there.Etacovda said:if a passive heatsink can handle the jandal with it, i dont see the point in overly restrictive northbridge blocks.
consumer9000 said:ROFLMAO..."Low restriction design" is right. Honestly, why bother? The fact that you are making two 90 degree transitions already means you are losing alot of momentum/energy to the part, so people concerned about pressure drop would be foolish to use it either way.
Good active or passive cooling is a better choice for most chipsets, and with today's top of line boards coming with effective heatpipe based solutions I don't advocate watercooling NB chipsets unless they start dissipating more power.
nikhsub1 said:I can't figure out why everyone round the various forums has their knickers in a twist over this block. It will perform just fine on any chipset, no dimples or anything needed at all.
But the poeple who buy this are looking for better cooling than a passive heatsink, hence why they buy it. Swiftech could've add a few dimples and it woud'nt have hurt flow rates at all and would've offered much better performance but there's nothing there.
consumer9000 said:ROFLMAO..."Low restriction design" is right. Honestly, why bother? The fact that you are making two 90 degree transitions already means you are losing alot of momentum/energy to the part, so people concerned about pressure drop would be foolish to use it either way.
Good active or passive cooling is a better choice for most chipsets, and with today's top of line boards coming with effective heatpipe based solutions I don't advocate watercooling NB chipsets unless they start dissipating more power.
thorilan said:while this is true it would litterally triple production time and quality control time so you would have to pay more in the end for something that would show such an infintismally small benifit as there would be no way swiftech could justify it.