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Originally posted by hara
It is off centre. The Inlet nozzel is directly over the CPU core. There is no need to cut a step on the base. It has been taken into consideration already.
Will this block perform well?
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The reason I ask is because alot of motherboard manufactures crowd the space just under the socket with big capasitors and such so it wouldn't fit. It won't fit on my board at all unless you reverse the block and add the step on the base. If it was me I would make the longer side of your block sit over the longer side of the socket. The again, I could be totally confused as to how your block sets over the socket.
I think it would perform well with what you got now. I'v been able to get within 2C of the WW block with my tapered base block but I never thought of microchannels like you have with a tapered base. Make it from copper and I believe you will have something to actually compete with the WW.
Despite how others think the depth of your channels should be reversed, I think you would want more depth in the center to whisk away the heat more effectively and faster. Then a higher depth on the ouside of the center so that the depth tapers off increasingly getting deeper at the middle. The heat is radial - yes that is true. A tapered depth across the channels I believe would make that radial even smaller because your effectively carrying the heat away from the center alot better and faster. If you can do that then the heat generated from outside the center would be less because the center would be cooler adding less heat to the edges thus you would need a smaller depth to cool the sides effectively. A flat base would just make that radial flat spreading the heat out over the edges. A tapered base would make that radial even smaller without spreading the heat out to the edges because the thicker sides of the taper would allow the heat to travel up and not to the sides. Think of it as a fire. To put out a fire you would toss water directly on the center of the fire. If you would to toss water around the edges of the fire you would never put out the fire because the heat from the center would just heat the edges back up and burn again. Just one big perpetual situation.
Also you want to make sure your water flow/velocity is able to reach the very bottom of the tapered channels for it to work correctly otherwise your stagnant water will just heat up and sit there.