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3Tripnip · 10-11-2005, 04:40 PM

Hello all,

I have been visiting this site for a long time, "ooing" and "aweing" at all the awesome custom work. I took the plunge a few weeks ago and designed my own solid brass reservoir. I'll post some updated pics of that later if anyone is interested.

I am almost done designing my first waterblock for my X800XT. It will be out of copper, brass, and possibly delrin. A friend of mine used to be a machinist for an aerospace company, and has a ton of precision drills, cutters, etc. I have modeled my block in CAD, and he said he would make it for me. It consists of a silver-plated baseplate, mounted below a brass "jetplate", and followed by a delrin top-plate.

I have an area that's 1.15" x 1.22" that will come in contact with the die. I have 255 holes drilled in this area. Each hole is 0.030" in diameter, and 0.030" center-to-center.

My question is: Do you think this is too small of a diameter for holes? This is the smallest he could do, and I was figuring the more holes... the better the thermal transfer. Any feedback would be great. Thanks!

-Ben

10-11-2005, 04:40 PM	#1
3Tripnip Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oregon Posts: 14	Designing new VGA WB for X800XT... question Hello all, I have been visiting this site for a long time, "ooing" and "aweing" at all the awesome custom work. I took the plunge a few weeks ago and designed my own solid brass reservoir. I'll post some updated pics of that later if anyone is interested. I am almost done designing my first waterblock for my X800XT. It will be out of copper, brass, and possibly delrin. A friend of mine used to be a machinist for an aerospace company, and has a ton of precision drills, cutters, etc. I have modeled my block in CAD, and he said he would make it for me. It consists of a silver-plated baseplate, mounted below a brass "jetplate", and followed by a delrin top-plate. I have an area that's 1.15" x 1.22" that will come in contact with the die. I have 255 holes drilled in this area. Each hole is 0.030" in diameter, and 0.030" center-to-center. My question is: Do you think this is too small of a diameter for holes? This is the smallest he could do, and I was figuring the more holes... the better the thermal transfer. Any feedback would be great. Thanks! -Ben