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Long Haired Git · 09-08-2005, 10:03 PM

Is it me, or is the innovaKonvekt-O-Matic PASSIVE ULTRA over £120 plus delivery.
HELLO.

Can't help but think a horizontally orientated large heatercore/radiator will outperform and be cheaper. Something like the thing that Cathar made for Athalus:
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...athar+Radiator
which apparently cost just AUD$150 = approx £60.

A quote around there has Cathar saying a typical 120.2 radiator is good for "cooling up to 400W of heat load without using stupidly noisy fans and without letting the water temps climb past 10C above ambient". You're going passive, but then only 210 watts?

Also, are you water cooling the PSU? What video card do you plan to run, and does it need cooling? Is there a point to having a silent CPU cooler if the GPU and PSU have fans? Remember that ANY air flow to the radiator is going to have a very large impact on the cooling ability. Eg: You'd may find a 80.1 radiator with a single 80mm fan for both the rad and PSU outperforms the passive radiators above with no "forced" air flow.

Is the case going to be Tower or Desktop? My current design (still in the design phase, sigh) has a normal tower modified to have a 120mm fan sucking air out the top of the PSU and out of the case, and then a 120.2 sized radiator on the bottom of the case as the sole way for air to move through. Not fanless, but a single tri-cod fan will be essentially silent and it will run far cooler than a truely passive rig, and no need to WC the PSU and HDDs.

09-08-2005, 10:03 PM	#2
Long Haired Git Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sydney, Oz Posts: 336	Is it me, or is the innovaKonvekt-O-Matic PASSIVE ULTRA over £120 plus delivery. HELLO. Can't help but think a horizontally orientated large heatercore/radiator will outperform and be cheaper. Something like the thing that Cathar made for Athalus: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...athar+Radiator which apparently cost just AUD$150 = approx £60. A quote around there has Cathar saying a typical 120.2 radiator is good for "cooling up to 400W of heat load without using stupidly noisy fans and without letting the water temps climb past 10C above ambient". You're going passive, but then only 210 watts? Also, are you water cooling the PSU? What video card do you plan to run, and does it need cooling? Is there a point to having a silent CPU cooler if the GPU and PSU have fans? Remember that ANY air flow to the radiator is going to have a very large impact on the cooling ability. Eg: You'd may find a 80.1 radiator with a single 80mm fan for both the rad and PSU outperforms the passive radiators above with no "forced" air flow. Is the case going to be Tower or Desktop? My current design (still in the design phase, sigh) has a normal tower modified to have a 120mm fan sucking air out the top of the PSU and out of the case, and then a 120.2 sized radiator on the bottom of the case as the sole way for air to move through. Not fanless, but a single tri-cod fan will be essentially silent and it will run far cooler than a truely passive rig, and no need to WC the PSU and HDDs. __________________ Long Haired Git "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." (Prof. Gene Spafford) My Rig, in all its glory, can be seen best here AMD XP1600 @ 1530 Mhz \| Soyo Dragon + \| 256 Mb PC2700 DDRAM \| 2 x 40 Gb 7200rpm in Raid-0 \| Maze 2, eheim 1250, dual heater cores! \| Full specifications (PCDB) Last edited by Long Haired Git; 09-08-2005 at 10:08 PM.