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#Rotor · 10-09-2002, 09:34 PM

"Generic 120mm radiator with 3/8" OD barbs from BeCooling"

so tell me, that radiator, how much more surface area does that little thingy have over say a late model high performance heatsink....

There's your Sign

the only way water-cooling can be better than heatsink-cooling, is for the radiating surface of the rig, to be significantly larger than that of these heatsinks, note I say significant..... Why, because a liquid cooling rigs has on average 3 thermal junctions more, than a heatsink rig. ( CPU>>>Block>>>Water>>>Radiator>>>Air). Junctions are bad.

if not, then the water-cooling will have such a hard time being efficient though all these junctions, that it won't have time to do pretty much anything else... hens the crappy results...

10-09-2002, 09:34 PM	#2
#Rotor Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dione, sector 4s1256 Posts: 852	"Generic 120mm radiator with 3/8" OD barbs from BeCooling" so tell me, that radiator, how much more surface area does that little thingy have over say a late model high performance heatsink.... There's your Sign the only way water-cooling can be better than heatsink-cooling, is for the radiating surface of the rig, to be significantly larger than that of these heatsinks, note I say significant..... Why, because a liquid cooling rigs has on average 3 thermal junctions more, than a heatsink rig. ( CPU>>>Block>>>Water>>>Radiator>>>Air). Junctions are bad. if not, then the water-cooling will have such a hard time being efficient though all these junctions, that it won't have time to do pretty much anything else... hens the crappy results... __________________ There is no Spoon....