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Unread 04-19-2003, 11:44 PM   #127
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Originally posted by Alchemy
If you have flowrate constant, flow resistances add up just like resistances in an electrical circuit. If they are parallel, summing them up gives your overall resistance, the ratio between the temperature difference between CPU and air over the heat output of the CPU. Give or take.
I give, because I'm having a hard time taking your meaing here.

For parallel electrical resistances:

1/Rp = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3 ...

Bill's latest heatercore results indicate that the situation for fluid flow is fairly analagous.

And then the abrutpt transition from flow to temperatures...?
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