unablock anyone?
 

I'm planning on getting a pair of these for my dual duron system thst's in the works. anyone know how they work?

--Matt

Liquid goes through the block, and removes heat from the block, and continues on it's marry way...

Or did you mean how WELL does it work? :p No clue :shrug:

duh webmasta, I've been WC'ing for a while now.......


Anyone know how WELL it works?

--Matt

This may not help you, but I have a unablock+ViaAqua1300 +Escort heatercore combo leak testing on the bench, should be in the computer by Monday. I can give you some feedback on its performance with a 1Ghz(266) AXIA.

EXCELLENT! This is great news. Keep me posted.....

--Matt

mkosem, well obviously, just ask UnaClocker (duh?)... but from what I hear, at medium to low flow rates (Via Aqua 1300... Rio 180) the block performs surprisingly well...

On the other hand, which I hope you notice, dual athlon boards dont have the 4 hole mounting, which the unablock uses.

some dual AMD MoBos have the holes.

another thing to be aware of is galvanic corrosoin due to the copper & aluminum (wont be a prob if you use an aluminum rad or some corrosion inhibitors...)

the a7m266-d does, they just need to be drilled out. Anyways, there's other mounting options anyways.

--Matt

The new Iwill MPX comes with holes stock. It also has multiplier and FSB support (though prerelease boards seem to have some trouble with it).

hmm, anyways, I decided to run a single XP system instead of a dual duron box. But keep me posted for when I do make it.

--Matt

I have had the MPX2 for 2 weeks now, I'm using a bios that iwill sent me, lets just say fsb + multi works just fine

I'm replying to mkosem's request for info about the Unablock. The system specs are:

1GHz(266) Tbird Axia @ 1.75v
Epox 8kta3 motherboard
Unablock(lapped to a mirror finish)
Aqua Via 1300
Ford Escort heatercore
1/2" tubing except for inlet to the waterblock
120mm Panflo 1LA pulling air through the heatercore
1 80mm PC Power & Cooling Silencer in powersupply
open slots between pci cards
The entire system is inside a 16"x16"x7" mid-tower case

The results:
1GHz(7.5 x 133)
Ambient temp 25C , cpu(idle) 34C , cpu(load) 37C

1.33GHz(10 x 133) @ 1.85v
Ambient temp 25C , cpu(idle) 37C, cpu(load) 40C

The cpu temp was taken off the mboard sensor, this is my first attempt at watercooling and the data is not exact, but I thought it might give someone a rough idea how the Unablock performs. Sorry for the long post but a certain amout of info is needed to describe the test conditions. Any comments good or bad is most welcome. Gary