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Originally posted by hara
Volenti, are you sure direct die is better than a waterblock? The core is too small to be effectively cooled by water. What happens if you unplug your Block and place carthar's block instead (assuming you could mount it)? 
You've already removed the IHS
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It's better than
any water block I've ever used, and I've made many, including a pretty close copy of Cathar's block.
Note though, it has a
very small margin for error, and proper (multiple) jet design and implimentation is critical to get better-than-copper-water-block results.
anyway, here's a big update.
I've made a new-n-improved CPU direct die block, as well as blocks for the northbridge and Radeon 9700pro GPU.
I've gone back and improved the multiple jet approach that worked so well before, also incorporating a little "rice" in the design allowing the cores to be very visible.
But enough of my rambling, since you've only came here to see the pictures :P
on with the show;
The 3 volunteers;
The multiple layers of the blocks block laid out under their respective cores;
The 3 blocks after assembly and a polish;
The addition of the copper hose connecters;
Close up view of the GPU block, the surface mount components on the chip surface were sealed with epoxy, the "dreaded" blu-tack gasket can also be seen through the perspex;
Shots of the blocks mounted in position;
And finally the 1/2'' to 4x 1/4'' splitters I made up to run the whole mess.
Since I hosed the previous install of XP (only just got back up and running) I haven't had a chance to run any tests, I'll get some performance results up soon.