[Aaron Burton]

Ok, so I have a tendency to go all-out when it comes to my computer. I'm currently on aircooling (slk-800 and a 92mm vantec tornado). I can no longer stand the noise, even all my case fans on 7v, so I'm moving into watercooling. My goal is for a completely silent machine, (at least not audible above some minimal ambient noise). I have these blocks of silver at home that my dad gets from X-ray techs when they come to recalibrate the machines, (it's 999+ silver) and I figured I'd find the top of the line water block, buy it, then through lost wax casting, recast the base in silver. Since then, I've become quite familiar with Cathar's work, including the Cascade SS. So here's what I'm going for-- It's very similar to the cascade, but I found that after Cathar got rid of the secondary outlet, he never redesigned the outlet resevoir in the polycarb sheet. That didn't really make sense to me, because on the side opposite the outlet nipple, there's a big pocket of stagnant water. I realize that circulating water as quickly as possible is kind of missing the point, but I don't see any purpose being served by this pocket of warm water. Using what I know of elipses, I cut off the pocket, and replaced it with a circle. Ellipses are very curious in that anything originating from one focus (in a straight line), will be deflected by the edge toward the other focus. So I put the inlet on one focus and the outlet on the other focus. The circle I used to cut off the heat-pocket is consentric with the focus of the original ellipse. This way, once the water is propelled into the cups, it will be more easily pushed toward the outlet. In addition, I rearranged the number of jets, and increased the number to 100. The size of the array is a *little* smaller than the width of Cathar's original array. I also fixed the plenum so it would be a little more appropriate to the new array shape.

I have a couple reservations- First of all, I'm not sure if I'm ripping off Cathar's (and everyone elses in the forum)'s ideas, or just enhancing them. I'm also not so sure that my methods are really sound. I feel like I have the ideas right, but fluid dynamics are a bit more complicated then I think I'm giving it credit for. Any suggestions? comments? Help would be much appreciated.