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Questione about the $16 dollar water block at becooling
- Thread starter Tyfoid
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al isn't "really low quality "
alot of people who made al blocks have only seen a small difference with cu blocks.. (1-3C)
alot of people who made al blocks have only seen a small difference with cu blocks.. (1-3C)
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I might be good for a vid card. keep in mind the battery effect- dont couple it with copper anything else. It should work decent- but certainly not extrodinaily.
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blah blah blah alu for an aplication such as a water block if it is the same as the copper version will only do 1 c at most worst JFettig has tested this theory and well i am 99.9999% sure thats what he found. really the conductivity of a metal for an aplication like this doesnt have to be that great it just has to be fair. or we would use all coated silver... ...J had also pointed out to me and i think a few others that diamond has awesome thermal capacities. some where areound 5 x better than silver which is the most thermally and electrically conductive element in the world. but anyway the results in alu blocks and copper blocks are so close i would almost prefer an all alu set up due to how much less it costs than copper. due to how much of it we have. not cause it sux as i can sense someone saying...
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I purcahsed the Unablock from them a few months ago.. Aside from it comming with a few missing washer or something, I have been happy.
I lapped it up a bit, and then hooked it up.
Personally the plexi-mount makes me nervous, and as no bolts are running through the block itself - good luck getting it to stay still if you ever need to remount it with water in the lines.
Anyhow.. if you have a low flow system, I'd reccomend the Unablock. I use it with an '89 camaro heater core and a Rio180 pump.
Running my Xp1500+ @ 1.5 ghz 1.84 volts, keeps it at an acceptable 43C or so full load. Though I'm sure that will rise in the summer. I'd still reccomend the Unablock over a plain block.
I lapped it up a bit, and then hooked it up.
Personally the plexi-mount makes me nervous, and as no bolts are running through the block itself - good luck getting it to stay still if you ever need to remount it with water in the lines.
Anyhow.. if you have a low flow system, I'd reccomend the Unablock. I use it with an '89 camaro heater core and a Rio180 pump.
Running my Xp1500+ @ 1.5 ghz 1.84 volts, keeps it at an acceptable 43C or so full load. Though I'm sure that will rise in the summer. I'd still reccomend the Unablock over a plain block.
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neco i was looking at that do u know what is inside or is it just a channel i plan on maing a block similar but not replicate. im also working on a tc-4 style block but i wasnt sure if that had pins finse or what in it. anyway if u know please tell...
Frodo Baggins
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I heard from others that the Unablock was a decent cooler for it's relatively cheap price (pretty much the cheapest your gonna get from a shop)
But hte link you gave us is of a vid card cooler....
But hte link you gave us is of a vid card cooler....
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Actually I didn't even see the unablock when I first looked at the site... not until they mentioned it did I see it. But the link I gave said that block is for either a cpu or a gpu. I may just buy that unablock though... as I am trying to go water on the cheap then upgrade to more intense stuff later on.
