Any ideas for replacing a Heatcore?
 

I am looking at other cooling methods than using a Rad.
The best idea I can come up w/ is to take copper tubing and coil it up and place a fan in front of it.

It will need to be located in my case.

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This is just a thought.
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i doubt that would match the performance of even a small core if you did that. perhaps you could get a resevior and use a pelt or water chiller to cool the water. then just use a beefy HSF to cool the pelt. swiftech makes a HSF / pelt combo if you want to look into that. i know everyones best friend Steve from [H]ard|OCP uses a water chiller as an alternative to a rad.

I have seen a couple of those pelts/cooler built.
Not sure if it would but a lot of heat into system though.

I just might try that copper tubing idea just for the fun of it.

keep the ideas coming if anyone has more.
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A car heatercore is the most cost efficient radiator we can get.

That aside, if you look at Hayden tranny (car transmission oil) coolers, you'll find that although they look like a simple tube with fins, they have turbulators built in, which decreases the heat resistance (and increases the pressure drop). I believe that that solution is actually one of, if not the most efficient design.

The copper tube idea can't match either of the above, because they do not induce any turbulence in the water flow.

That aside, you also have to try to maximize the surface area, for the air flow. A heatercore does this extremely well. A round tube provides the least amount of surface.

If I was going to try to make my own, I'd use square tubing, and run a chain of turbulators through it. Ideally, there would be aluminium fins, press fitted onto the tube (how? I don't know).

Good luck.

you could biuld an evaporation cooler with a coil of copper tubing in it. Evaporators make the water really cold or so I have heard.

get a dehumidifier...simple as that...With a little bit of work you can have a nice looking water chiller and get some bad@$$ overclocks :D