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Originally posted by G33k
Have you considered rotating the pins through 45 degrees like this :
Obviously, you'd want to modify the layout a little. I would imagine that you'd get more turbulence amongst the pins this way... ?
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Yes, somebody also thought of this idea, take a look at this german cooler:
Its the K4.2 from Cooling solutions. The earlier versions K4 and K4.1 were bigger and had a few more cuts, but the K4.2 now is so much optimized in size an performance that you can't make the waterflow or the performance even better.
This pin design is a good solution for a waterblock, but not the best.
In my opinion, another technologie is a better way:
This cooler is called UCD (universal cooling device) and ist also from B@mbi from Cooling Solutions (Germany):
http://www.cooling-solutions.de/
It uses a microchannel Technologie which makes the laminar glide layer (do you call it so in english? in german its: laminare Gleitschicht) much smaller because of the many sharp micro corners in every channel. The water flows in every single channel against the pure copper of the first corner an then a few milimeters again and so on, which makes a very big water pressure but a superior cooling result. The UCD ist much smaller then the K4.2 but more powerful.
I think that is an argument for this Technologie.
-please don't laugh because of my deplorably english, i'm only a german guy from Hamburg
