V12 your argument is hypocritical in nature. Have you ever bought a peice of software? Or a CPU? or any other million's of other products... They are all marked WAY up. Some of them well boyond what these rads are marked up. My buddy is a design engineer that has been designing and building special heat exchangers for a couple years now. I asked him what a one off core 120mm x 120mm would cost and he said $500 on the low side and $1,000 on the high side. Then he said they wouldn't touch it anyways unless you ordered 1,000+ of them. Then the price would drop down to about $80-$100 each.
Also I pulled 4 cores from the scrap yard last year and will NEVER do it again. After days of cleaning they are still crammed with garbage and they have corrosion built up in them. It is stupid, yes I said stupid, to use a used heater core in a new water cooling loop. Especially if your using a Cascade or even a White Water. The jets and channels clog up in minutes.
If you want to half ass things then have at it though. Doing things right costs money.
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