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point being: if you have constant flow given a constant energy source, the heat to kinetic energy ratio would also be constant.
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Yes but remember your coolant is not constantly accelerating. Once it reaches a certain speed it no longer can go any faster due to restrictions. However your pump is still inputing the same amount of kinetic energy, therefore the same amount of energy per unir of time must be converted to heat and as you said leave through the radiator or be converted out through the pump itself into air.
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If the water is moving, its not being converted to heat.
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Really? Like I said, unplug your pump and see if the coolant keeps flowing at full speed. It doesn't? Then all that kinetic energy was converted to thermal energy.
This is simple high school physics, all energy inputed into a closed system eventually becomes heat. A closed loop watercooled computer is no different.
[ 09-13-2001: Message edited by: redleader ]