Secondary Components Aluminium loop

[HaxR3]

Im thinking of doing a seprate watcooling loop for all the secondary, non crucial components in the rig

IE.
RAM
Graphics-RAM
Graphics VRMs?
HDDs
MOSFETs
N-bridge
S-bridge

Also these could be used as prototypes for a commercial design/product set

How well do you reckon a waterblock set for the above components would sell? (made from aluminium, desinged for a secondary loop)

(Secondary loop to avoid electroytlic corrsion/capacitance)

A set of -

HDD block
N-Bridge block
S-Bridge block
2 RAM blocks
4 G-RAM blocks (2 chips each)
Possibly 1m/3foot tubing
Would most probably cost ~£30 ($60ish)


Thank in advance for any (constructive :D) comments

Hax

[eXa]

you also need a alu rad. wich would that be?

[HaxR3]

im not sure tbh :S

one possibility could be TEC although that would be rather ineffecient

Anyone know of an alu rad ???

[eXa]

not any good ones(bigwater). best i can think of is zalman reserator.

[HaxR3]

Well its not gonna be disapating a great amount of heat (about 50 watts max total) so it only needs to be small, an 80mm rad should do, 120mm at max

[creidiki]

GRAM and GVRMs are more easily done with a fullcover block. All the separate ones suck sweaty monkey scrotum, as in "i wouldnt put it on my card if they payed me" kind of sucks.

[HaxR3]

ahh right, like crud afixation to the card/component & low heat transfer area because of pipe size?

[creidiki]

that + there arent really enough mounting holes for 3 separate block so youre left with big fat blocks of metal held in by 2 small screws under great tube torque sitting on your exteremely fragile VRMs.

heat is really the last of your issues with this stuff, you dont need much flow and complex designs arent needed, just a flat area of metal in contact with water is more than enough. thats why most of these secondary block designs are defined as "unnecessarily restrictive"...

GDDR3 is fine up 110c, digital VRMs are fine up to 75c...

[HaxR3]

i was thinking of high spec thermal "glue" with thin, flexy pipes coming from a splitter, the separte miniblocks was to increase the amount of cards that the cooling system can be affixed to

also it would just be a flat heat transfer area

also, since it is a low cost "secondary" loop then the flow restriction isnt as great an issue as a primary/cpu/gpu loop

[HaxR3]

Hoepfully this aint against the rules :confused:

BUMP :S

[Jochenp]

Are you going to make it or not?

[HaxR3]

Yes, as a prototype, then hopefully they will go into small batch production (25/50 at a time) untill we know how they are going to sell.

I can use several CNC machines for the final product

[Jochenp]

Well, if you ever get them on the market, I live in Belgium and I'm quite interested, so ... :)

[HaxR3]

Ill drop you a pm if it goes ahead

What parts do you reckon you would be interested in?

[SaFrOuT]

me too gonna be watching this thread for ur results

[HaxR3]

Cool thanks, i gotta start drawing out some proto designs :D

Anyone wanna help me?
:D
xfire: haxr3
msn: haxr3@hotmail.com (probably wont be on for a while)

BTW Im off on holls for 2.5 weeks friday so i wont be posting again till then :S

[Jochenp]

All of the blocks interest me (the HDD one less, but still)