hm, boring design, just what the cascade was but a little mixed up in number size and so. The Storm seems to be different to the cascade in that therms, which i critizised so many times, not a big invention, i am a little diasappointet. I really expectet a fully new design, but this is only a better cascade i think. IMHO the XXS was the completely wrong direction with bigger cooling area and smaller jets, this is some more seriously weighed out. The actual design looks much more intelligent from the jetarea, the baseplatesurface, the jetsize and length.
So thumbs up for the good design, but is definitely nothing really spectacular. We have seen nearly the same inner design from Tommytheold already, with his murks3.1, the Excalibur from rrcooler was also nearly the same and weighed good too. But the technology behind this is old, very old...
and the excalibur was worse than the new microstructureblocks in europe with more than 3rd the surface and jets, so i would expect a good highflow microstructureblock to be euqually or better than the storm. This old design has still some potential, thats right, but i don't think it has enough to tweak much more performance out of it.
The delrin really looks good. very nice material!
But whats with the machiningquality? There are some visible lacks in the machining quality. And this is a presentation example, i don't want to know how the actual delivered products look.
It looks like the Delrin was milled too fast, because the stepmotor lost some height steps (in the upper basin). Or the overlap was not eneough. I mill basins with 50% overlap, so such small machining mmistakes get correctet with the next round of the drill.
Anyways, thats only a lack in looks, nothing important. But what about the chamfers aorund the holes you drilled. This chamfer is visibly shiftet and has a different center than that of the hole. There are tree possibilitys how this could be explained: The stepmotor lost some steps again(millingprocess to fast). The Cad Data is not exactly correct (no thats unrealistic). The workpiece zero point was not correctly adjustet by the machinists after changing the drill.
I indicatet the things to which i refered in the pic below:
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