Can anyone Identify this block?

[InSanCen]

Ok, as Title says.

I got this WB As a freebie (Props to Jopers1986 :D ), and I need to know what it is (I need mounting Hardware).

Also, if you know what it is, is it any good? For comparison, I run a SI97+119CFM Tornado, with good airflow on a 1700@2.5

The Rad it will be with is a 120mm Rear-case mounting job (Pics when I get to the back of the case)

Still open to pump, tubing & Res Ideas (Wanting performance, comparable or better to my Delta+Tornado setup (600+CFM), pump noise is not a problem!)

Linkage:-
Pic1 (http://www.insancen.co.uk/images/wb1.jpg)
Pic2 (http://www.insancen.co.uk/images/wb2.jpg)

Cheers for any help,

InSanCen

[Cathar]

The style resembles early Asetek waterblock work. Could be one of those?

[One_Hertz]

Asetek Waterblock CPU Xeon

http://wvw.monsieurprix.com/listing/gen/J000086207.html

[InSanCen]

That's the chicken! Thanks guys (Cather posted in my thread... *gibber*... The privledge... privedgle...priv...Honour). Cheers for the linkage One_Hertz

I think that it may have a different base to the one in the pic, as Jopers1986 used it on his XP Setup.

Is it any good, and can I make any improvements on the block? I'm cool with modding it, but all my nice tool access (Lathe's, Miller's etc) are gone with me now being well out of college. Dremel only I'm afraid..

On opening the Block last night, I found that there is a) a crack in the top , I'm gonna have to get copper top before I'm happy to run it :censored: , and b) a single curved guide to channel the inlet water.

This doesn't look like the blocks I've seen with lots of channels, pins, holes or whatnot (Though I'm a complete n00b to Watercooling), and doesn't strike me as particularly efficient. Am I right?

Linkage to open block pics:
Open pic 1 (http://www.insancen.co.uk/images/openwb1.jpg)
Open pic 2 (http://www.insancen.co.uk/images/openwb2.jpg)

Cheers for the reply, was really helpful.

[MaxxxRacer]

you are right..

its not very effecient at all..

[FrozenPC4Brain]

Was worth what it cost you I'm afraid.

[FireDragon]

dremal slots in the center to make it look like a WW just to increase SA and that will help alot. Or dril nice small hole in it and mae a jet to push over them or do the same with the channels you make it into a decent performing block maybe like a maze 4 or somthing like that

Dragon

[InSanCen]

Aha! I'm right! Well, happens once in a while, when hell freezes over... ;)

So, without modding, it's nor goint to be great, and even with modding, not that good compared to todays blocks.

I suspect that my Aircooling (IRO 625CFM, balanced, TT Big Typhoon on way, currently SI97) would probably smack it around a bit in the fight for lower temps.

Would it be any good for GFX? Got to be better than the stock (Thermalright's V1 won't go on a 6600GT AGP), but is it worth bothering with this?

Firedragon, Looks are secondary to me, it's got to perform to stay in the system :D . Will dremelling small channels in this work (The center feels kinda thin already, kinda reluctant to remove any material from that part, but I imagine that is precisly where it would have most effect).

Would putting channels following the water path be best? If so, all the way or just partway? Putting pins in that is not an option, (I can't braze or flame solder in my flat, and I have no garage), so mabye impingement(?) holes where it's thick enough to churn up the water some and increase the Surface Area?

Any Ideas appreciated, and Cheers again for the help

InSanCen

[FireDragon]

you can make impringment jets that you can make a plate that make the water flow right in...i would make channels in it and a jet plate kida like the WW...

Dragon

[Fresh Daemon]

Asetek realised this and their later blocks have impingement channels.

Maybe this thing might be good for a peltier, where having cooling concentrated over the die isn't appropriate.

It would do OK on a graphics card, GPU's don't seem to be that sensitive to high temps and the stock cooling solutions aren't that great compared to any water. But with those barbs sticking straight up you'll lose a lot of room in the case, can you replace them with right-angle barbs (flow killer, but hey)?

[InSanCen]

Yeah, was thinking of just getting another block for the cpu, and running a "Dual loop" system (2 of everything including Pumps, Don't know if my Terminology is correct though).

For the meantime, will that block, with a 120 rad cool a 6600GT (AGP). Can you suggest a 1/2" Pump for this?

Until I can get a decent 120.3 setup & a good block, I'll be putting a TT Big Typhoon on the CPU :D , so the AGP Bridge chip on the GT will get decent Airflow.