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Originally Posted by AngryAlpaca
Now how do those numbers add up for the simpler Storm designs? That's what, 1-2C worse? How does the overclock compare? I believe that some of the lower budget enthusiasts may be interested (if the difference is a fair amount. Saving $5 for a fair rise in temperature wouldn't be popular.)
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The Storm/G2 would be the design to go with for cost/performance if one were interested in that sort of thing.
If the Storm/G2 were to be made cheaply, even in "expensive" manufacturing countries like Australia or the USA in bulk I'd do the following:
Get an injection mould done for the middle/top plates. Use integrated barbs on the top-plate. Middle-plate comes out 90% complete from the mould. 3 minutes of CNC-machining to fix it up. In bulk, we'd be talking about $5US for both plates including cost of materials.
Copper base-plate would cost ~$2 in materials. CNC machine time would be around 5 minutes. For following grinding and proper lapping, maybe looking at $12US or so for a completed base-plate.
Get top mounting bracket cast in aluminium, ~$1/piece.
Throw in quality mounting kit (stainless steel pieces) for ~$6.
Could get it done for ~$24US. Final sale price could be $40 or so.
Would need to sell quite a few though to offset the investment cost of the moulds. Probably wouldn't break even until after the first 5000 or so blocks were sold.