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Originally posted by bigben2k
Putting aside a couple of votes from manufacturers and site owners...
It looks like the 26-50 price range is a winner, although not by any large margin, and mostly on average. That seems reasonable, given the rest of the expense associated with actually making the block.
Can we work with that?
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Make a list of each measurment that needs to be taken and put together a list of tools needed to take those measurements.
GPH/Pressure drop? Not sure why pressure drop and GPH's really matter for a DIY block that probably already has the components pre-selected. GPH is going to be set by those components. Unless the block maker actually thought about making a design to utilize those spacific components (in which he would have already came up with GPH's and pressure drops) then whats the point of it? Not like he is going to to run the pump slower than full speed eh? being the block is not cross comparable to anything who cares!
Water temp? Would be useless to measure inlet and outlet temps with cheap probes because those temps are lower than most accuracy level offsets, so cross that off.
Air temps? You might have enough to buy a cheap probe after buying a decent CPU probe.
CPU temp? Only thing to do is epoxy a probe to the bottom of the CPU and cut a little channel in the socket for the wire. For $50 you should be able to come up with a decent enough probe to be somewhat usefull.
:shrug: