Smack me if this's been posted before.. (pin style water blocks)

When Danger den has that maze water block, the water flows in one side, through the maze, and out the other side. If I remember correctly turbulent fluids will hold more heat. If all the water's doing is flowing in, mazing, then exiting it's not getting very turbulent? It's also moving cold liquid around the outer edges then to the middle then to the edge again so it's "prewarming" the liquid before it hits the center where the core is. Why not have a forrest of pins on the floor of the block with the input centered on top and the waste being gathered on the edges? I'm new to overclocking but it seems to not follow common sense...

How does one go about smacking you

DANGER DEN PIN FIN






OWENATOR has one too

Aye, that's the one that I saw to puzzle why it didn't perform better than the smooth walled maze block. They compared an open to a maze http://www.overclockers.com/articles315/ but that just makes sense because the open didn't incorporate more surface area...

Think of the way air cooled heatsinks work but apply it towater cooling.

Hi
@Sonny
You must make the cuts smaller the flow is too Laminar see this pic. If smaller cuts the flow more Turbulent.
i hope you can understand me
Greetz
C-E

if instead of using a 1/16" sawblade and they used a 1/32"(can you get that small?) and they also rotated the workpiece 120* instead of 180*. You'd end up having to make three sets of cuts but you'd have offset fins.

Hi
heer can see you the optimal parameter for cuts and the best is 45° for flow and turbulenz


Greetz
C-E

Hot Spots?

I'd be worried about hotspots forming in a design like that as well as the narrow channels overly restricting water flow. Anybody have any data on the cooling-solutions block?

Oh yea
This is the Aktuall Nr 2 in Performance
See this Review heer
Greetz
C-E