Black Ice Heat Capacity And Pelt Concern
 

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2x black ice handle

60w pelt on chipset
80watt on Geforce 3
172watt on cpu

they will have a 70cfm fan on them each

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thanks

60 + 80 + 172 = 412W.

That of course would depend on your PSU.

Actually a single Black Ice can handle that much heat but you won't have any more headroom for improvement beyond that.

The Black Ice II is coming out to market by October. 240mm core that fits 2 120mm fans.

2x black ice... ouchies... $$$

Unless you have a very long and narrow spot you plan to mount these rads, you'd be better off with a heater core styler radiator, the Monolith rad at liquidcool.org looks really good, it seems to be the same as bigmomma, but has mounting tabs. Unless you have severe space issues, you'd save money and get more cooling capacity with a heater core.

BTW... I'm not sure who said this, or even how correct it is, but two lower capacity rads arent as effective as one larger rad.

Depends on the two radiators in question. In many cases 1 large radiator (heatercore) would only fit 1 120mm fan, while two smaller ones (Blackice) would fit 2 120mm fans. Clearly the 2 Blackices would win, even if the heatercore had more total surface area.

redleader... true... like I said, I didn't know anything about the last comment I put in my reply, i just thought I'd pass along the info.

If you're lookng for a two fan setup, and have the room, the other rad at liquidcool.org is a heater core which is... i think about 10-11" long, but the same as bigmomma otherwise, and it is much cheaper than even one black ice, let alone 2. If you have the room, and dont mind making your own duct, go for it.