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Unread 02-17-2006, 07:28 AM   #14
bobo5195
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Default Re: Liquid

Um Tec’s being good has a water cooler means not very much when Tec’s are a far better cpu cooler.

Um guessing your setup is this

Wb (cold side)
Tubing
Two waterblocks sandwiched together as a heat exchanger with a pelt in the middle to act as a kill
Normal loop (rad, res etc)

This is never going to be as efficient as a pelt water block combo as the cold side loop has a thermal resistance which is greater than a direct connection. There are some reasons I can think of do this though:

1. Chill multiple waterblocks at the same time
2. Have some odd sized pelts to hand that wouldn’t work in normal cpu cooling applications
3. Want to direct die cool the blocks
4. Double TEC setup of some sort with the cold side having another chiller.

Either way inline water chiller on ebay is probably the best solution but as an exercise this only makes sense if you are planning a direct die cooling with something like FC 77 (fluorinert) on possibly multiple blocks. This would allow for direct die cooling but the benefit is likely to be marginal vs. a pelt (cool though).

Double pelt option doesn’t make much sense as they might as well be sandwiched back to back. If you have odd sized pelts it makes much more sense to buy another than spend loads on gizmos.
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