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Originally Posted by Bevel
Now pro your thoughts please. I have had this idea for awhile now, you see the thing is if the Storm block works so well on a bare core why not produce a gpu block using the same principles ie jets? The concept is proven to cool better than pins or channels. Worth investigating?Hmmm
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Storm design is too "tall" for the video card market. Need something flatter, low profile. Can go to G9 level in order to reduce stand off, but machine costs (aerospace level) put $$$ to far out.
Cathar did make a low profile prototype block: "Hydra" and this, I believe, was what was cooling his dual-loop peltier water chiller circuit.
GPUs have bigger contact patches than AMD XP CPUs. Storm design coped well with this density issue. Now we have IHS or large dies as per the GPUs, do we need Storm "density"? Some say Apogee and Storm perform the same on IHS type CPUs... MCW55 is Apogee for GPU?
Things ARE moving in this arena, but work commitments keep the progress slow.
MCP655 @ 5 with MCR220QP and Storm and 1.5m of tubing = 6 LPM
MCP655 @ 5 with MCR220QP and 2 Storms and 2.0m of tubing = 4.5 LPM
MCP655 @ 5 with MCR220QP and 3 Storms and 2.2m of tubing (SLI) = 3.8 LPM
Certainly think such flow rates are acceptable.
Assuming 110W CPU (over-volted, over-clocked) and dual 70W GPUs (ditto mods) then the impact of the two extra storms is 6 degrees C to the CPU. However, for that sort of heat load, I'd be going for dual MCR220's or a PA120.3.