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Originally Posted by Hotseat
Why are you guys making more and more restrictive blocks?
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I'm not totally sure that's true. AFAIK, the Swiftech 6000 is no more restrictive than the 5002 and the Storm no more than the Cascade. There has been a general progression towards blocks that are more and more effective at moving heat from one side of the block into the coolant (use the above pairs of blocks for examples) and if there
is a trend towards their being more restrictive I would
guess it's because of this.
Most folks here use this additional efficiency to keep CPUs a bit cooler (usually for overclocking), but you could use it, instead, to make radiator frontal area smaller (potential lower cost) or radiator air-flow smaller (potential lower noise).
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Nothing in Dr. Shiping Yu's work suggests micro channel design will benefit from increased restricting flow?
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You mean Dr.
Zhiping Yu, right? Not trying to be picky, just the spelling difference may make it more difficult for anyone here trying to track down his work. I find nanotechnology interesting but am not sure how it applies to the current generation(s) of water blocks. Care to enlighten me?
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... some of this pump general tech may hit you guys in the future. There is recent bearing technology that maybe of use to you all. ...
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Active suspension is interesting stuff, too. I would have thought that active pumping (other than making up for losses if an air spring was used) wouldn't be necessary, just control of hydraulic valving (to control damping rates) and air valving (to control effective air volume and hence progressive spring rate). But then I'm basically an old-fogey springs-and-hydraulics kind of guy - and this is likely not the forum for this. I
would love to hear what (in general) you're doing that is new on the pump bearing front. Got a link? Maybe just some hints?
Oh, and Bill isn't so much at it
again as at it
still - IMHO he's our resident cynic and does a good job keeping the rest of us honest. We still screw up (well,
I still screw up) but it's mis-understanding and mis-calculation and mis-measurement, not any attempt to "bluff" or "fake" as Bill (and others) are there to spot it.