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Unread 10-30-2002, 05:41 PM   #10
redleader
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Yep. You want to focus on the major points of heat transfer resistance, like the radiator, if you want to improve performance. Heat moves very efficiently across a piece of copper. There's no gain in improving that.
Don't be silly. You can line an unlimited number of radiators until you run out of space. If you have the will its not hard to bring the coolant to within a fraction of ambient. People have done it. Furthermore even a simple heatercore with a modest 120mm fan will cool the water air interface to a lower delta T then the block-water interface.

Now try and get a copper block within 5C of coolant. You can't without TECs (or an innaccurate probe).
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