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Originally Posted by JamesAvery22
If its without Id guess it would perform about the same with quieter fans.
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My limited experience is that the major factor is radiator frontal area. However, I would guess that you
do give up at least
some performance when you reduce thickness. Beats me how much that would be.
You're certainly right about the reduced fan noise (again, from my limited experience).
Why not stick to the rads with multiple parallel water paths (so stacked plate or fin and tube)? Contra-wise, I guess you could cut the serpentine tube at either end of the fins and attach some sort of manifold at either side. Somebody's done this - think I saw it on overclockers
years ago. Anyway, it seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to to get parallel (low resistance) flow when you could just start out with a rad with parallel paths in the first place.
By all means go with an Iwaki if you want one (I do, too) - but I'd suggest you use all that additional force to help transfer heat from the waterblock base plate to the water.