yep - mcw6002a with a mcp650. the entire loop is going to something along the lines of:Quote:
Originally Posted by saaya
pump (mcp650) -> core (dual 77 b'ville of course) -> CPU (mcw6002a) ->maze4 gpu block ->criticool 4" waterplant (mainly for an airbleeder as it is the 4" model - thinking about setting it up as a t-line with the res being an airtrap).
other toyz in the box - modded nf7-s, mobile xp2600, 512mb (256 x2) OCZ pc3700 plat. EB, enermax 651 psu, 9800xt, coolermaster muskateer, twin vantec nexus fan controllers, microcool sinks on all the heat producing chips, dual 74gb raptors, 5 120mm fans, 4 80mm fans, etc.
I am still debating some other moddage like a 120mm fan mounted to the back of the mobo tray to cool the backside of the socket and the mosfet area or possibly making a couple of waterblocks to handle that along with some other moddage. The U2-UFO has so much space that it allows a lot of mods that normally wouldn't be possible. The most cramped area behind the mobo tray still leaves about 2.5" of clearance - the other sections on the back of the mobo tray have something closer to 8.5" of clearance to the opposite case panel. Fitting watercooling into this case is about as hard as trying to figure out how to fit 2 people into a full sized Hummer H2. For example, I was playing around with the spacing earlier and If I wanted to cramp it a little, I could fit a '86 chevette core and dual '77 b'villes with 3 swiftech 650 pumps. playing around with this case leads to a lot of :D
time to get back on topic. :)
this is why painting a heatercore doesn't screw up performance -
top of a core with the top tank removed:
http://www.cox-internet.com/weapon/i...i_flowchan.jpg
the slits indicated by the arrows = water flow channels - the solid sections in between the slits are the top layers of the fins for airflow.
if you peel those solid sections back, you will see:
http://www.cox-internet.com/weapon/i..._finschans.jpg
the red arrows on the left point to the waterflow channels, the blue arrows on the right point to the finned fins that are the ones in contact with the air.
--fins on the fins = mega surface area
on to some hardcore core peeling action:
http://www.cox-internet.com/weapon/images/hci_layer.jpg
^note the silver solder line on the edges of the core. as long as the paint doesn't get past those, you aren't effecting the area where the cooling primarily takes place - i.e. the fins that are on the layers of copper fins.
one more:
http://www.cox-internet.com/weapon/i...chan_fins.jpeg
the arrow points to an opened up waterchannel.
everyone see how they work?
