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Originally posted by Cryonosis:
can someone please tell me how the water is channeled through the polyblocks. From just looking at the pictures, the poly block looks like it just has a large section taken out so the the water will just "pool" on top of the metal plate.
thanks in advance,
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I wish I had a tiny little boat to take a ride through the polyblock & tell ya all about it, but in it's absence.... over the course of a year+ testing of over 50 waterblock designs, the swirling pool is the most efficient in any given material.
While conventional design practices dictate that a forced path covering the most exposed surface and distance within a waterblock SHOULD be the most efficient especially if the inner surfaces are roughened to disrupt laminar flow, practical application and experimentation have shown that "it just ain't so"
The most efficient waterblock designs I have tested use the swirling pool design and have the lowest metal:water ratio possible while maintaining sufficient thickness and rigidity on the contact surface to keep from warping and losing or diminishing contact with the cpu.
In this video
http://www.overclock-watercool.com/waterblock[1].asf you can see that the water doesn't pool. It forms a quickly spinning whirlpool that impinges upon the internal surfaces repeatedly before being gradually sucked out by the waterflow.
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