I don't care if some parts were made of aluminium. I use only distilled water anyway. I feel sorry for the people who use coolant and various metals within it. :rofl:
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Distilled doesn't protect against aluminium.
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Jaja laber mal du Honk :D :rofl:
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community...-748456-5.html
When will you test the new Admiral Rads ? :)
Haha...you got me for a minute there..:)
Truth be told, their secret element, is carbon, or in it's planer 1-sp orbital bonded carbon state....graphene.
It has 80 times the thermal conductivity in comparison to copper.
Well... it would take something like that to back up the hype.
Feser Admiral radiator mystery! :rofl:
>9000 blistering. :ROTF:
Passed first week of October and nothing yet. :lsfight:
Guys, there were clues in the entire post that it was nothing more than me having a little fun.
1. Do you really think I would email them, and for that matter, Do you think they would respond to me, let alone reveal their newest products secrets? ;)
2. Unobtainium274. . .do I really need to say more? ;)
3. >9000 :rofl:
Either that, or their CS has an amazingly awesome troll :rofl:!
OK, so I had some spare time and was kind of bored on Monday and got to thinking about the tube size and layout on these rads. From all the available info I could find this is what I was able to come up with.
Disclaimer: This is only a guess, there is no inside info that I know that led me to this "conclusion".
Paper is 124mm x 61mm, the size they claim the standard 120mm series to be. I believe the O.D. of the tubes to be a little smaller than the dimes (17.82mm to 18.01mm), possibly 13mm to 15mm, the fins look to be about 2mm-3mm high, and the inside diameter of the tube is probably somewhere around 8mm to 10mm.
Again, this is just more speculation but it seems close from what I've been able to figure out.
Given the pictures, that's not unthinkable. You'd get pretty large gaps for air to flow through, possibly even better than the lowest FPI rads we have right now, which would in turn be a step towards solving the near-thermal saturation that we currently see with low speed fans on our radiators. Of course, the question is how much of that air would actually properly come in contact with the tubes...
But wouldn't that in turn overly too much reduce area of fins? Of course, it would be easier to blow through/less airflow lost from quiet & slow fans with weak static pressure, but just replacing fin area with easier to blow through seems wrong aswell. Just different chosen compromise. And probably could be done/got same and for much cheaper with classic rad design lowering FPI even furthier to some .. 4 FPI?
All radiators are a compromise between air flow (volume of air that passes through the radiator) and air saturation (temp of air out/water out).
To get higher air saturation you have to increase the area of fin that the air passing through the radiator comes into contact with, this can be done by either increasing the thickness of the radiator or using a higher fin density. No matter which way you go about it though the resistance that the air passing through the radiator will experience will increase, and therefore the volume of air passing through will also decrease due to the increased resistance.
Browsing over results for triple radiators on skinnee labs the thin 14 FPI MCR320 actually performs better than the 8 FPI RX360 at the lowest fan speed (600RPM), which indicates that the MCR is actually less restrictive than the RX in terms of air flow despite having a much higher fin density. Since the fin density of the MCR is slightly less than double the RX, and it also only has slightly less resistance to the air flow through it (as shown by the slightly better performance at lower fan speeds) I think it is a reasonable assumption that if the MCR had 16 FPI it would perform virtually identically to the RX which is double the thickness with half the fin density.
Essentially the point I am trying to make is that making thick radiators with low fin densities is pointless, as it costs a load more to manufacture (if retail prices of single thickness vs double thickness radiators is any indication) and the performance is identical to a radiator half the thickness with double the fin density (lower pressure drop is pretty much the only advantage of thicker radiators). For me the ideal radiator would be a single thickness radiator supplied with a fan shroud, which would give it essentially the same dimensions with the shroud fitted as a double thickness radiator but with better performance at the same fan speeds (assuming the double thickness radiator had half the fin density of the single).
tl;dr thick low fin density radiators are not the solution to producing a better performing radiator with low production costs.
Any news on when you will have one of these Admirals for testing Skinnee?
I am really looking forward on not only reading this review, but the Thermochill TA Review too.
Keep up the good work.
I'm not expecting to test the Admiral series in October. And trying to get the TA review complete this weekend.
:up:
this thread is pure win!
so is it confirmed these rads have alu in them?
Feser ownage :)
Feser Admiral radiators - release delayed
http://hw-lab.com/feser-admiral-radi...e-delayed.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Artem
:rofl::ROTF:
Not confirmed, only rumoured.
Facepalm.....
Running out of reasons to dissagree with WL...
I know it is five years in Hypersleep to get back from Pandora, so these MUST be made from Unobtainium.
any link for test review on these rads full of innovations ;)
No Rads...no Test, simple as counting to 3 :) Maybe Release until Xmas ? Who knows......
http://www.dazmode.com/store/index.p...&cPath=154_155
Tomorrow? :rofl::ROTF:Quote:
Late October
They probably tested them in house and discovered that they can't perform that well compared to what we have already. They will probably redesign it about 5-10 times and come up with the same conclusion that you can't really improve much from what we got now. Then they will try some marketing gimmic to still try and sell them. But who knows only time will tell. All I know is they will have to give us at least a 2*C improvement from the best radiator on the market currently and be priced within 10 -20% for them to even sell.
i do hope skinnee can give us some more details about performance test ;)
if they add blingy lights inside (maybe a cold cathode to replace one of the middle tubes) they could price them in some absurd category and probably sell pretty good.
well... sell pretty good to people who don't read tests and only go by marketing.
http://www.dazmode.com/store/index.p...&cPath=154_155Quote:
Originally Posted by dazmode
http://www.dazmode.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by dazmode
:rofl::ROTF:
I'm expecting the new Feser lineup to turn into the Duke Nukem Forever of liquid cooling...
2020: "Any time now..."
I wonder if recently released radlines performance (like that of TA/RX V2) made win too small, or they noticed heavy shouting in forums about aluminium and those were the reasons to redesign to something they can brag about again?
[offtopic]Skinnee! Where are results of TA rads?! :) It's almost month since initial review. :([/offtopic]
sourceQuote:
Originally Posted by seal
I guess, to someone might be interesting read (interview with rad developers). Main points - aluminium nowhere in touch with water, rads can be easily painted, no nano coating, as there were few problems with it, so they decided to drop such expensive process. I cannot count answer of 'damn good' as quantifyable relative cooling performance, so it still is up to real tests to find out the truth.
1: Aluminium only external and no contact with the water.
2: The wall-thickness of the stainless tube is only 0,2mm, unsure low speed fans will impact.
4: Nano-coating too expensive, complicate and not needed anymore.
It looks like that some of the new hyped features were removed. :rofl::ROTF:
Everything is justified. Like any other product, Admirals have several revisions of engineering samples. They would had been launched long ago. But, early publication of Admiral specification on hw-lab.com triggered lots of negative feedback. As a result, Feser had to think of a different version of Admirals radiators which required additional test conduction (it was for our own good). Therefore, specifications are changed and product launch is delayed.
Factotum: Negative feedback? As in something about rad dimensions or about materials used? (i'm curious in what exactly was most significant for Feser to decide a redesign). To me it looked (if one ignores Feser as company bashing which made up 3/4ths of negative comments here) rest was made mostly about aluminium part. I wonder if early samples had aluminium inside water tubes aswell ..
Everything you said is the common basic of a product development and this is not the point. The point is that they claimed the nano-coating feature as described on the product's website and is not going to happen. I would have taken your point into consideration if they had not even mentioned and or published the nano coating. They blow this one and this is a fact.
@churchy
Right now, it does not really matters. The important thing is the radiators production has been reconsidered for the better, since the final product should be free from drawbacks.
That dev doesn't seem very smart... higher flow rate means better performance if heatdump is controlled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Feser Dev
Interesting. First there were speculation on whether these rad will have alu or copper inside,WTF is than nano-coating for. Now when all of that is scattered and facts are presented, you still continue to guess :confused:
Factotum: Well, i'm 95% shure that one of drawbacks will still be there (higher price). But if they manage to pull off with best performance, they can also charge a bit higher price. Problem with their previous rads was that they charged premium anyway without real top performance to justify it except backing with pushy advertising.
At the end imho swiftech seems to have made smarter business decision. I'm guessing that they get same profit from each unit sold from their cheap MCR rads as TFC will from admiral (taking into account higher manufacturing price of admiral), but swiftech wins in much larger sold volumes. 95% performance of top for half of it's price imho works better then 110% of previous top for 1.5x the price (of course, these numbers are guesstimated speculation of mine).
incorrect for rads
@churchy:
I think the Feser will not hear us
Taking too long >_<
Im ready for a 2nd rad in my loop ... come on with it!
The material, these radiators are made of, is aluminum and stainless-steel.
http://hw-lab.com/feser-admiral-radi...acts-only.html
my pleasure, important is, at least now we are finally clear about the material, which admiral rads are made of.
We already knew, link was posted a week and few days ago by churchy http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=342
sorry, i didn´t see that post!
WOW
SourceQuote:
Originally Posted by Dazmode
I mean, will they have the rads by that time for sure?
Skinnee, are you in? ;)
i read somewhere that these radiators will be very expensive ... :) can you confirm it?
I dont like the port hole placement on these rads, too close together
i doubt the performance of this rad with stainess steel with aluminum fins, coz there is no good method to connect steel with aluminum, a typical pc radiator has following tubes and fins: tube wall thickness 0,1 mm, copper thickness 0,045 mm
steel is a lot more durable then copper.
Which would allow you to use less thickness of steel.
Also, most rads minus a select few are made from brass chambers.
Also the type of steel used would be very important.
But specific heat of different metals:
Nickel steel 0.456 0.109
Brass 0.377 0.090
Beryllium Copper 0.42 0.10
Nickle steel isnt bad.
this is what i found in wikipedia: List of thermal conductivities
Stainless steel 12.11 ~ 45.0; Copper 401; Aluminium 237 (pure), 120—180 (alloys)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_conductivity
*yawn* I guess those rads will hit the shops next year...not before end of january
You can look at this little appetizer for some entertainment:
Watercool HTF4 Series - Prototype Parts:
http://www.abload.de/img/htf4_teileu69i.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/proto_radib6pb.jpg
No more Info yet, just the pics for some speculations :)
^^ That rad looks better than the admiral, imo. Thanks for the find bundy
that deserves it's own thread. Please don't hijack a thread.
I bet those Watercool rads and Feser rads have the same manufacturer.;)
look posting above, so it fits :D
okay,
I'm going to take a stab at these from the sneak peeks shown. I haven't had time to read this whole thread and see if anyone had made a deduction.
These are quite simply tubes with fins on them. Manufacturing is pretty simple. Get a very thick walled metal tube, run it through a skiver in a tight, circular fashion. I've seen it being manufactured before so it's no biggie. You'll always see this sort of tube having a spiral pattern instead of having individual 'rings' because it's the most efficient method of manufacture.
I fact, I'd reckon it's easier to manufacture than standard PC rads.
Performance wise, I don't know.
cant see the Watercool HTF4 Series pics :(
Close to mid-december and still nothing new?
Just realized I started this thread on 9/11. I'm confused as to whether I should rofl or cry.
It's been almost 3 months! I wish we had a rep from every major company on here, it'd be much easier to dispel rumors.
Oh wow, what is this...looks like the very first exclusive Admiral batch is on the way now, eh ?! ;)
http://www.abload.de/img/admiral1jh01.jpg
Oh NOOOO!
Russia first!
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/223/zazadmiral.jpg
is the guy, sitting in the car, designer of the admiral radiators?
hahaha that doesn't even make sense
"In Soviet Russia -car drives you!"
why oh why are you guys waiting for a radiator that is going to take us backwards to circular tubes?
Are we going to ignore everything we learned in H2O up to now?
Go backwards... and pretend its not been tested?
Im curious to see how they pull this off..
@NaeKuh
That picture that just disappeared, doesn't prove a da..n thing ,it only apply's to one type of tube
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6852/mora3.jpg
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12 months ago two loops was better than one...:)
well i didnt want to shatter this thread...
And the surface area between the rad classes you showed is completely off.
To class a Mora with a RX360 is just wrong...
That is just silly, anyway u present it.
Watercooling isnt about bigger the better.... trust me, ive been there.... its about efficiency of your entire system.
Having all monster parts does not equal the pefect h2o system.
NaeKuh i'm not going to argue with you .Everyone is entitled to his own opinion , "Watercooling isnt about bigger the better.... trust me, ive been there" and yes ive been there to-the amount of someone's posts doesn't reflect on anything :)
all i care is noise and if you thing this is " monster" .... " That is just silly"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4rDF69S9mk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pmY-...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxRndIWFus&NR=1
The last test someone did was on mo-ra2 ;)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=226445
NaeKuh: let's say, that with insane rad area MoRa more then makes up to it's shortcomings of using round tubes. And even while two common triples might cool with similar efficiency, two externally mounted triples with extra interconnecting tubing imho will look less neat then single MoRa on case side, even worse so for three external triple rads. So overall i still see MoRa as competitive product with it's own niche (i'm too lazy to compare pricing, how much MoRa3 vs 2*RX360+2 extra fittings cost).
As for feser rads .. it's hard to compare apples to oranges regarding their internal tube structure .. yes, they are also round shaped which is less efficient, but they also have internal fins, not smooth internal wall surface .. so at the end it might compensate that aswell.
I hope TFC will hurry a bit with admiral release, not to consider purchase ones, but to finally end with actual test numbers all arguing/speculating lasting for many months, be them worse or better then for common rads :)
Where did that come from?Quote:
Originally Posted by churchy
I'm thinking they had problems maintaining the stability of the Unobatinium274 for the inner tubes. :p: :rofl:
no if this was a pissing contest with a mora, id bring out this guy. :wasntme:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_0114.jpg
Trust me.. bigger AINT better.
And that double feser 480 stack is most certainly bigger, because it has thin pure copper channels.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_0116.jpg
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...a/IMG_0117.jpg
So i can say, been there, done that... nope.. its not the direction one should go in H2O unless u have to watercool unobtainium.
Waterlogged: they might have calculated that and made it so that in each of those tubes amount of unobtainium used never crosses critical mass. As for radiation itself, it probably can be used with some smart accessories that convert part of it to UV lighting - imagine that, you don't even have to power LEDs anymore and have rad shine in green slimy light 7*24. And are you that against gills, extra legs and hands you might have grown by using such rad? I sure do miss sometimes not having 3rd hand :D.
:O
I ninja'd this post so quickly, that the blur u saw.. you thought waterlogg'd?
:rofl:
Serious note..
There was nothing wrong with feser's old radiators.
Infact i like them... they have a longer warm up period then conventional radiators because of the copper core.
But they were none the less excellent radiators.
I dont see why feser is going backwards, they had a kick ass radiator.
NaeKuh: imho because they need something really THE most effective to partially counter bad effect of lying initial PR campaign of "thermochill killers". It's as you said - they were good rads. But when it's advertised with widely known in public as not true claims, it serves as anti-advertisement effect further tarnishing their not exactly bright PR image (made such by also triebwerks as THE LC fans (i wonder if they'll try to release something better in this area aswell?)/copied fitting design/shills at forum and overall pushy marketing).