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blockhead · 06-09-2006, 03:58 PM

thanks for those two links, very informative and thought provoking.

It seems the most important question to ask is what are you trying to measure and WHY?

From that point some answers will start to flow.

If you want a test rig for experimenting with various WB designs for your own CPU without having to rebuild the PC each time , a piece of 10mm Cu plate with a raised area similar to the IHS and a metal clad resistor bolted on the back fed by a constant voltage PSU should give you a quantitative test rig.

Choose resistor values that will give you something near the max power you are hoping to poke into your CPU once it is water-cooled.

This will allow you to preselect the best of your WB prototype designs.

Though this will be a very crude sim it will tell you quantitativly if you are in the right ball-park with your cooling system or whether it's not even worth pulling your PC apart because you're wide of the mark.

Of cource if that was not your "WHY" you will need to think through your own what and why logic.

HTH 8)

06-09-2006, 03:58 PM	#5
blockhead Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2006 Location: home Posts: 1	Re: building a CPU die simulator thanks for those two links, very informative and thought provoking. It seems the most important question to ask is what are you trying to measure and WHY? From that point some answers will start to flow. If you want a test rig for experimenting with various WB designs for your own CPU without having to rebuild the PC each time , a piece of 10mm Cu plate with a raised area similar to the IHS and a metal clad resistor bolted on the back fed by a constant voltage PSU should give you a quantitative test rig. Choose resistor values that will give you something near the max power you are hoping to poke into your CPU once it is water-cooled. This will allow you to preselect the best of your WB prototype designs. Though this will be a very crude sim it will tell you quantitativly if you are in the right ball-park with your cooling system or whether it's not even worth pulling your PC apart because you're wide of the mark. Of cource if that was not your "WHY" you will need to think through your own what and why logic. HTH 8)