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orev · 03-13-2002, 08:44 PM

I was wandering around the plumbing section in Home Depot the other day and came across an interesting part. It was a brass 90 degree elbow with a flat bottom. It's basically a cube of metal with 2 holes drilled at 90 degrees to each other, and a nice flat surface on one side that would line up very nicely with a CPU core.

It got me thinking about the nano block, and it seemed like it would be very simple to buy 3 parts, no more than $8 total, and you'd have a nano block.

However, it brings up some questions:
1. Has anyone used brass as a water block? What type of heat transfer can I expect?

2. The tough one, where to get a hold down for this sort of thing? The input fitting would come vertically out from right above the core, so a normal hold down won't allow pressure to be put in the center of the core.

Thanks.

03-13-2002, 08:44 PM	#1
orev Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 35	Brass as a water block? Possibly a very cheap block I was wandering around the plumbing section in Home Depot the other day and came across an interesting part. It was a brass 90 degree elbow with a flat bottom. It's basically a cube of metal with 2 holes drilled at 90 degrees to each other, and a nice flat surface on one side that would line up very nicely with a CPU core. It got me thinking about the nano block, and it seemed like it would be very simple to buy 3 parts, no more than $8 total, and you'd have a nano block. However, it brings up some questions: 1. Has anyone used brass as a water block? What type of heat transfer can I expect? 2. The tough one, where to get a hold down for this sort of thing? The input fitting would come vertically out from right above the core, so a normal hold down won't allow pressure to be put in the center of the core. Thanks.