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Originally posted by LiquidRulez
Theres going to be alot of those popping up everywhere.
Not to sound like an @ss, but unless he has a patent on the princaples of his design, then its not really his"legally" in the eyes of the gov.
Most people probably feel that if he was worried about someone copying them, that he would be protected and boast his patent pending rights...........which as far as I know, he hasnt.
I dont know about you guys, but if I had designed the WW, You can bet your @ss that Ive have a patent pending before I had shown or told anyone of it. Because these "clones" are going to be popping up for quite some time and theres really nothing he's going to be able to do to stop it legally. NOTHING.
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While mainly developed by Cathar, the community over at OCAU had a role in the developement.
From what I understand, Cathar never started out to make a block for sale at all, he wrote a simulator to see if he could push the limits of the current watercooling methods (Rad, pump, block - straight simple watercooling). He managed to find a good design and tweaked it, resulting in a high performing block. I also believe he's only just made all his costs back, and all money over cost is going into developing and prototyping his next block, all on top of a regular day job and kids.
No offence to others, but the average Australian attitude to someone designing or building something seems a wee bit more respectful, and less likely to try to rip it off for $$$.
Stoodoo's are just Ghetto home blocks, and Cathar has made it clear he does not care if people want to use his design for their own use. He's never released exact designs or measurements, so it's unlikely you could get his performance easily anyway.
Let's put this myth to bed.
Cathar is not claiming to have invented microchannels or jet impingement, nor be the first to use them to cool stuff with water, he just designed a block utilising both principles, and therefore like anyone, does not appreciate people trying to make $$$ out of his design.