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psychofunk · 05-30-2004, 05:12 PM

Mybe I am reading it wrong but what difference does copper tubing with aluminum fins make. We are talking about copper touching the water not the aluminum. The fins are attached to the outside of the copper tubes and aluminum is used because alum works better at dispersing the heat into the air (copper absorbs better and alum cools better <-- refering to the metal-I am pretty sure that is right). Also their Trans T Turbulator is all copper. If you look at their fin cool design and their swirl flow turbolaters it looks damn genius to me (only prob is the swirl flow is alum) and you waterblock gurus can make some copper swirl flow turbulators. It seems like a huge waterblock which I bet would be great at pulling heat from the water. Only problem is I don't know what it would do to flow and because this water cooling is like super lotto it is anyone guess what would happen to temps but it all looks cool to me. Makes me think about making a rad, forget the wb's. Imagine what could be done?

05-30-2004, 05:12 PM	#14
psychofunk Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 365	Mybe I am reading it wrong but what difference does copper tubing with aluminum fins make. We are talking about copper touching the water not the aluminum. The fins are attached to the outside of the copper tubes and aluminum is used because alum works better at dispersing the heat into the air (copper absorbs better and alum cools better <-- refering to the metal-I am pretty sure that is right). Also their Trans T Turbulator is all copper. If you look at their fin cool design and their swirl flow turbolaters it looks damn genius to me (only prob is the swirl flow is alum) and you waterblock gurus can make some copper swirl flow turbulators. It seems like a huge waterblock which I bet would be great at pulling heat from the water. Only problem is I don't know what it would do to flow and because this water cooling is like super lotto it is anyone guess what would happen to temps but it all looks cool to me. Makes me think about making a rad, forget the wb's. Imagine what could be done? Last edited by psychofunk; 05-30-2004 at 05:18 PM.