I was thinking kinda the same thing the other day, but mine was why do people bother putting fin area far away from the core?, if you had it right it'd only have to overlap the core by about 5mm each side, carry every iota of heat away before the Cu 'stores' it?. It's working out the optimum though is'nt it?, how much fin area is needed to 'pass over' the heat(at what watt) to the water(and at what rate/velocity), working out an optimisation proggie for that would get my 'brownie point' star of approval
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Sadly it's all above and beyond me:shrug: , I can only
look and guess...
I think people need to work together and take each step as it comes, Cathar's worked out how to define optimum fin~H2o area. how to define optimum fin area for heatload(or range?100-200watt?) is next maybe?. find the best pump (how much for an Iwaki 20rt, or rzt?) use that as baseline, so you know what flow to work fin area to.
Sorry I'm wandering
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PS, I think the thermal mass argument is 'bunk'(new word! W00T!!
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should have thermal protection (wiring the pump to the PC plug at least!) to protect our investments. A relay to power on pump(&TEC) are de~riguer to shut them down if the CPU overheats, as a electronic flow metre(proximity type) should be if we have a 'CPU fan fail shutdown' option that works, [cough]
Mr Abit!, KX7![cough], or someones bright enough to make a curcuit breaker that works off the 12Volt switch...