The Phobya CPU waterblock

You know, that is a sharp looking block. Ok, where's the clear top version?


:D

Highly parallel design, just like IBM's internal design. But I worry it would be prone to jets clogging.

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Originally Posted by skinnee

according to my calipers base plate is just shy of 2mm. the block construction is interesting/different from what I have seen from other companies. I would be surprised to see the plate warp with the stock mounting hardware. There is a slight center aligned bow to the base.

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Originally Posted by mcoffey

Thanks Skinnee,

I agree, very cool design. Can't wait to get my hands on one.

andyc

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I completely misspoke, baseplate is just over 1mm thickness. I will change my original post. I knew I should have waited till I got home and checked my notes. :shakes:

Do want :slobber:

No VAT for USA buyers, right? :D

Gosh I wish there was more info about this block.

No VAT Vapor, I should know, I bought mine and Skinnee's lol, I love it and find it no more restrictive than the d-tek v1 with the quad split nozzle, course I'm not measuring flowrate with tools just how it passes through my res.

this block is really different i dont think it might succeed it migh just restrict flow

not really, a single 355 with xspc res top can handle the phobya, xspc 4870 razor f/c block, and blackops nb block with ease

If you guys are ok with not seeing thermals yet, just pressure drop...I can post that info. :shrug:

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Originally Posted by skinnee

If you guys are ok with not seeing thermals yet, just pressure drop...I can post that info. :shrug:

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Ummmm....let's wait...:D :ROTF:

alright, hotdun. You have now volunteered yourself to run distraction while I prep for thermals and test! :D

I made a review (in Dutch) of this block you can find here. Compared it to a XSPC Delta and the Supreme. Supreme was the best block in my tests (my fist one btw), not by much though.

Here is the overall 5 mount graph from that test:

http://i43.tinypic.com/20r8uhh.jpg

avarage temps over 5 mounts:

http://i39.tinypic.com/2iqk1te.jpg

And here the best mounts:

http://i40.tinypic.com/kruvo.jpg


tempprobes used for water and air I used are the Dallas One Wire DS18B20 (two for water and two for air; next time it will be 12 for air) connected to a Crystalfontzpanel with SCAB. Each mount was a 30min log time and 50min warming up.


http://i40.tinypic.com/2a0f2pv.jpg

Coolfris, what caused the huge difference between the mounts on the Phobya? Is the mounting system not very good or did you just get one bad mount?

coolfris

thanks for the review...i'm now convinced about...xspc delta v3

and the ek supreme..reigns supreme..i guess the bowed surface helped alot...

and the phobya..it just scares me..lol thin base...tsk tsk..i don't want it...

Third mount of the Phobya must be indeed a bad mount. The look of the imprint on the IHS was not very different from the others though. Maybe next time I should do more mounts and pick the best 5 within some given range, or something like that. I worked on the data after all the testwork. So maybe next time I will work on the data during testing the blocks. For a better temp resolution I will double logging time so there will be also more time for working during testing.


One thing I also noticed that the Phobya is a bit of a noisy block. Maybe it was because of the 2 DCC's in serie I used.