What do you think
 

Hey Guys,

I'm making a watercooler for a pc for a school assignment and since money is tight I've decided to make my own block.

I've decided to go with a design similar to this one.

http://www.drcooling.cl/galerias/cpu...rblock_e4a.jpg

This is my design...

http://imghost.uni.cc/img/water1.JPG



What do you think,
A : Are the jets nessesary?
B : What tools will i need?
C : What is a good base thickness?
Cheers,
Pricey

A : nop
B : drill press, hand hawk, winch (taladrio de pedestal, cierra de mano, torno)
C : try it


that block is made by me :D, and the construction is very expensive. Like that 70 U$ (su construccion es muy cara)

a lot of times going the DIY route can get more expensive then u initially think. the cost of materials might seem cheaper but then u end up running to home depot or something to get 3 dollars of this and then 3 dollars of that. expenses that u didnt calculate before. probably best to get one of the blocks from dtek. the spiral or the tc-4. both are only $25 and prob like 8 bucks shipping.

You'll notice he said it was for a school project. I doubt he'd get very high marks if he went out and brought a block, but making your own gets higher marks :)

its prob for a HS proj anyways, the teacher wont notice or care. but maybe that was just my school. i can remember getting away w/ a lot of crap in HS. and hey if u do get a low score at least u have good block. ;)

Yes, I know the teacher wont know or care if I bought it or not but I would like to make one.

I'm going to water from a stock HS and have had no experiance in mounting a HS/Block on the socket. How should I go about it?

BTW I saw SlaterSpeed's block

http://server6.uploadit.org/files/sl...inblocktop.jpg

It would be much easier to make...

I dont want to spend a fortune on making the block but I am commited to creating/cloning one.

What do you reccomend? Or what is a really good performing block thats easy to make and reliable?

Cheers,
Pricey

Attualy i would say my block would be harder to make. You would need a mill with some specilist tooling.

Dr.Coolings one would need a lathe with some specilist tooling so it wont be much easyer

I would sugggest you try something like a rotor# try your original design but leave out the channels around the edge. you would be able to do that with a drill press and dremel and it would not be too bad performance wise.

Mounting the block is not hard. i would suggest you but a mounting kit from dangerden and use that.

this is my solution easy and cheap

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7926/diamantes5.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3928/diamantes3.jpg

only with dremel, drill press and a liltle talent :D

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3854/dsc00232.jpg

P.D.: Sorry for my english :shrug:

Yeh thats more or less exactly what i mean :)

Well, I think that sounds pretty good.

I am boarding at a college and I think I may be able to have access to a lathe and miller, they only have 2mm bits, so I may have to go out and get some...

I will try the Easy & Cheap design.

A : Slaterspeed, How wide are your channels (if you mind saying so)?
B : What are the bits used for cutting through Copper, and how much are they approximately? Yes I know I should go out and find myself but being a boarder its a tad hard...

Thanks,
Pricey

about 1mm wide and 4mm deep leaving 1mm base thickness