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Originally Posted by jaydee116
Just do it. A heater core setup right can get your water temps to 1-2C over ambient for $20. Is it worth the effort? How much is to gain? :shrug:
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LOL Prove it? I didn't think I need to with this crowd since they so understand the concepts just as your self jaydee. 1-2C over ambient? with what? CPU only and not overclocked? Add in a gpu, maybe a hot running NB, even tec use and I doubt you will ever see 1 - 2C over ambient water temps with the rads we use. They were not designed to be efficient at water cooling. Just enough to heat a small space with water temps at 82 to 93C. Doesn't take much to do that.
Then the statement about fans? You can only do so much with a fan. Their is a point of diminishing returns with a fan. If your rad is not efficient, a fan pushing 200 cfm with a decent pressure rating isn't going to make a difference. I can prove you that with a delta 120x38mm pushing 130cfm@ 12V versus half that cfm with 7V. You can only push so much air through a rad. The performance levels off.
Money? Sure but what is worth to you? For me to have 1-2C over ambient water or at ambient temps with an over heated setup at a decent price, it's worth it. Think about it.
No one has even made any advance with a rad. Not even the commercial vendors who are just copying a small version of the heatercore and calling it the next grand thing. Sometimes I just get a laugh as I set back watching and say to myself, "Told you so". How many more times will you amuse me jaydee? Your almost as fun as Ben. But you know jaydee? I just might prove you wrong if no one or a commercial vendor doesn't beat me to it.
Who ever it was with the Al Cu thing. Only reason they use Al is for cost reasons. Copper turbulators versus Aluminum turbulators doesn't make a difference when all they are for is just to introduce turbulance to maximize convection. Copper is better in this case simply based on the corrosion factor.