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Unread 03-05-2003, 01:28 AM   #19
Skulemate
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Originally posted by Mark Larson
The longer the water stays in the heatercore the cooler it can get (pay attention to diminishing returns), and the faster the water flows through the block the cooler the CPU can get.
Methinks you need to do some more reading about some of the myths surrounding watercooling... because that's what that is. While there is a diminishing return in the cooling potential of a system at high flow rates, this is primarilly due to the "beefiness" of the pump required to produce these flow rates in the first place, and not because the water likes to hang out in the radiator to cool off. The radiator is a heat exchanger, just as the waterblock is, and what's good for the goose......
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