What is better, a dangerden cooling cube or a heate core

h2sammo

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I currently use the old dangerden cooling cube.
I was wandering if you know whether a heater core from dtek would perform better or not.

i have 2 120mm 138 cfm sunons on the radiator and a 500 gph pump, putting out ~1.2 gpm in this setup, with the maze2.

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cooling cube

 

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heater core

 

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The cooling cubes have been proven to be quite restrictive, I am sure you would get better results with a heater core. I have the DTeck core with the shroud.

 

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im not sure what to tell you but ive got a question as i have that same radiator. youve had two fans on it, so what did you find to be the best, the push or pull?

 

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I have 2 fans, so one on one side, one on the other.
One pushes in, the other sucks out.

nukhsub: who has proven that the cooling cubes are restrictive?

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Arn't cooling cubes a single copper tube that winds down then up?
Have your pump push water through 10ft of tubing and see how powerful the flow out the end is.

 

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how is the heater core constructed, isnt it still a tube winding up and down?

by the way, i posted the flow i get, look at my original post.

 

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the heatercore is better thin the DD cube. it has more channels to spread the heat better and its used for cars wich get hotter thin these computers.

I would get a heatercore, I have a DD cube and didnt like how if performed so I switched to a heatercore and its much better now.

 

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thx warlord.

when you say much better, how cooler does that mean?
do you remember the exact temp differences with the cooling cube and heater core?

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My heater core is two large tubes connected by 20+ thin channels.
You have one tube that winds back and forth 16-20 times.
I have more surface area.

 

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grr

I dont have any temps because at that time I switched my motherboards too so the reads would be way different. You will prolly see a 5c or so temp diffence depending on how big of heatercore you get. That DD cube is restricting a lot of water so you will take a load off your pump as well if you get a good heatercore. Maybe someone else has some temps to sure.