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Originally posted by hemophilic
If that's the case, why does the innovatek perform so well then? Even with the ribs for increased surface area, it's still a rather large hunk of copper. In the same vein, why do the best aircoolers have thick baseplates as well?
Also, there would be significantly more flow with the wider channels and 1/2" barbs.

maybe I should have posted this somewhere else since this is a theory thread. I'm going for a producible block, not a theoretical masterpiece which is impossible to construct. Oh well.

Good IDEA! I was thinking about something like that/invotech and actually it should work well. Here at the material science Dept, THICK base plates absorb monsterous amounts of heat and copper has a very large buffer when it comes to thermal-spread resistance limits, so that thick core would take a lot of heat, provide a large buffer between temp spikes (if any). Heat applied to copper travels rather fast, so the core is NOT going to heat up as one would think. The thinner the base plate the more rapidly the heat overload limit of the metal is reached and then the core is affected b/c the heat has no where else to go/be absorbed. The Innvotech with the vains is a great design to shed heat from the large center core... I've got an idea on how yer block could benefit from some drilling, but I don't have time to MS-paint one up, so I'll post it when I get back this weekend... Good simple designs USUALLY work the best. The most complex the path way and shit... that just leads to increased problems and factors which arise from the complexity etc....

Folks need to start thinkings K.I.S.S! Keep It Short & Simple!