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caxis0 · 07-11-2004, 10:22 PM

Dammit.

I was working on a front and top mounted radiator system. This prooves that three months of research may not even be enough. Thank you Cathar.... I guess... for prooving with math how my setup will suck with two radiators. Now I am left with two choices: 1) scrap the front radiator or 2) make a shroud where the air from the front radiator is exhausted out somewhere and turn the back fans into intakes instead of exhaust. . . .

. . .

I'll tell you why watercooling as an industry is being hurt--and it's not because of cheap low quality kits--it's because 90% of what you read about it is total BS. The low quality kits are secondary to this IMHO.

See, right now, I want to pull my f'n hair out. My air trap solution turned out to not be so hot, my radiator selection and placement turned out to look nice, but not much else. My choice to add a second radiator to compensate turned out to be kinda dumb given that they are in air flow series instead of air flow parallel. Had I simply had access to a list of facts (FACTS! with math to back them up!) three months ago, then I might have done a better job of things. As it is now, I feel disheartened and pissed off. It's not because I didn't research things, it's because it's taken me over three months to sift out the horseshit and get to the truth of things.

THAT's why WCing can't be mainstream (that and the maintenance aspects). At least not now.

And I still have a thousand questions, for instance--Cathar preferably: My top mounted radiator is going to be exhausting air that is already in the case. Air that is going to be heated by a processor that likely puts out around 89 watts max as well as two 160gb samsung spinpoint hard drives. The fan is a Panaflow 12cm--the one you were talking about earlier. The radiator is a crappy single BIX. Given this, is there a way you could just guesstimate how much I am going to be hurt by not mounting the crappy BIX where outside air flows through it instead?

I don't know, maybe this should be a new thread--although the "Can you please explain to me" title is kind of a catch all.

These are my parts: 1/2" ID, MCP600, TDX (not lucite) or Cathar's new one, Danger Den GPU WB maybe, Single Bix Top mounted, Tygon. What should I change? You can get more details in this thread.

. . . dammit.

Bruce

07-11-2004, 10:22 PM	#20
caxis0 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2004 Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA Posts: 27	Dammit. I was working on a front and top mounted radiator system. This prooves that three months of research may not even be enough. Thank you Cathar.... I guess... for prooving with math how my setup will suck with two radiators. Now I am left with two choices: 1) scrap the front radiator or 2) make a shroud where the air from the front radiator is exhausted out somewhere and turn the back fans into intakes instead of exhaust. . . . . . . I'll tell you why watercooling as an industry is being hurt--and it's not because of cheap low quality kits--it's because 90% of what you read about it is total BS. The low quality kits are secondary to this IMHO. See, right now, I want to pull my f'n hair out. My air trap solution turned out to not be so hot, my radiator selection and placement turned out to look nice, but not much else. My choice to add a second radiator to compensate turned out to be kinda dumb given that they are in air flow series instead of air flow parallel. Had I simply had access to a list of facts (FACTS! with math to back them up!) three months ago, then I might have done a better job of things. As it is now, I feel disheartened and pissed off. It's not because I didn't research things, it's because it's taken me over three months to sift out the horseshit and get to the truth of things. THAT's why WCing can't be mainstream (that and the maintenance aspects). At least not now. And I still have a thousand questions, for instance--Cathar preferably: My top mounted radiator is going to be exhausting air that is already in the case. Air that is going to be heated by a processor that likely puts out around 89 watts max as well as two 160gb samsung spinpoint hard drives. The fan is a Panaflow 12cm--the one you were talking about earlier. The radiator is a crappy single BIX. Given this, is there a way you could just guesstimate how much I am going to be hurt by not mounting the crappy BIX where outside air flows through it instead? I don't know, maybe this should be a new thread--although the "Can you please explain to me" title is kind of a catch all. These are my parts: 1/2" ID, MCP600, TDX (not lucite) or Cathar's new one, Danger Den GPU WB maybe, Single Bix Top mounted, Tygon. What should I change? You can get more details in this thread. . . . dammit. Bruce