V12V12: where's that drawing?
I see what you mean, about copper having a large buffer area, but I can't help thinking that a larger buffer would have a hot side, and a cold side, and so, if the baseplate thickness is very large, then the core temp would be allowed to get up there. That's what Dream Caster is explaining.
I think that it would be best to minimize the baseplate thickness. The problem with that, is figuring out what it is, and that's the essence of the Ultimate Waterblock design.
Just like a heatercore, it's fairly easy to reach the balance point, with coolant temps around 30 deg C, but a larger heatercore yields little improvement, because as the coolant temp drops, so does the rad efficiency. In other words, it's easy to drop the first few degrees, but much, much harder to drop the rest to ambient.
As for KISS, well, that's where I'm headed, with a center inlet, and a rather large outlet. It's only going to LOOK complicated as I add fins, and a turbulator/spinner.
My latest idea expansion would be to put a motorized turbulator... It would save me the time of designing a turbulator.
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