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Lope · 09-11-2006, 08:44 AM

today i looked into things a bit more.

i can get 12.7mm with a 0.71mm wall thickness, and 3mm with 1.5mm wall thickness (copper)
so i was doing some thinking on what to make, and basically i decided to try out the heatercore route.

i've found 2 radiator places which have 2nd hand copper heatercores which i'll go check out tomorrow.

i'm still keen on building stuff, but at the moment time is not abundant, and neither is my workshop situation.

peace

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edit:
well, i chatted to a friend about it. he reckons a fan which is pushing enough air through a car heater core to dump my current heat load would be pretty loud.
now i'm starting to think i've been taking my silent PC for granted.

i think my situation is pretty unusual. i cant think of many cases where i've seen people cool their entire PC in one loop.
PSU, HDDs, CPU, NB, Mosfets, GFX.
thats quite a lot of watts.
although people do cool dual graphics cards and a hot CPU, that might equal the wattage i'm doing.

i reckon i'm gonna go check out that heater core tomorrow, and possibly buy it just to experiment with if i think its viable.

09-11-2006, 08:44 AM	#4
Lope Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Africa Posts: 17	Re: Planning to build a new radiator today i looked into things a bit more. i can get 12.7mm with a 0.71mm wall thickness, and 3mm with 1.5mm wall thickness (copper) so i was doing some thinking on what to make, and basically i decided to try out the heatercore route. i've found 2 radiator places which have 2nd hand copper heatercores which i'll go check out tomorrow. i'm still keen on building stuff, but at the moment time is not abundant, and neither is my workshop situation. peace ----------- edit: well, i chatted to a friend about it. he reckons a fan which is pushing enough air through a car heater core to dump my current heat load would be pretty loud. now i'm starting to think i've been taking my silent PC for granted. i think my situation is pretty unusual. i cant think of many cases where i've seen people cool their entire PC in one loop. PSU, HDDs, CPU, NB, Mosfets, GFX. thats quite a lot of watts. although people do cool dual graphics cards and a hot CPU, that might equal the wattage i'm doing. i reckon i'm gonna go check out that heater core tomorrow, and possibly buy it just to experiment with if i think its viable. Last edited by Lope; 09-11-2006 at 01:15 PM.