I suddenly wonder

[Marcng]

why hasn't anybody made this?
i mean, wouldn't it make a lot of sense for us, watercoolers?
great performance, great flexibility, low noise etc.

of cos you get the option of using it with 2 in's and 2 out's, or both in and out on one side, or using it as a cross-flow rad.

*image of PA140.3 borrowed from Gilgamesh (hope he doesn't mind)

[anubis_is_evil]

yeah, i've also thinking about that..makes draining much easier that is my main reason ..and the most important like you said above....flexibility is the one..

[thehighlander1]

thats really a smart idea but there are alot of things that would have to be worked out with water paths

[Webby]

The simple reason why nobody sells a rad like that is that it wont work.

All duel pass rads run up one side and then down the other (be that left and right side or front and back) this means that you can have the ports on the same end of the rad. If you have a crossflow rad ports at alternate ends then either you have it single pass or potentially triple pass (but that would be a lot more work internally with a much higher pressure drop).

Basically on a duel pass rad you only get one half of the rad used if you go crossflow and if you put both inlet and outlet on the same (non-split end) then you get no flow through the rad at all. With a crossflow rad (assuming single pass) you get no flow with the ports in the same end used and if you use ports on the same half of the rad (left or right) then you get reduced flow through the opposite side.

So basically with how rads are currently designed the is no way of having 4 ports to choose from (apart from front and back on the same tank, as swiftech will be releasing soonish apparently and even then you still have to have one on the left and the other on the right)

[DarthBeavis]

what is 'duel pass'? Two people fighting to the death armed with radiators?

[Garrett]

Yes DB that's exactly what he meant

[Webby]

what is 'duel pass'? Two people fighting to the death armed with radiators?

My apologies dual pass.

[StAndrew]

It could be used to make a dual loop setup with one rad...

[Sparky]

It could be used to make a dual loop setup with one rad...

But if they are sharing a rad what's the point of a dual loop then? It really wouldn't do any good at that point

[StAndrew]

Theres absolutely no point but there is lots of things in todays world that makes no sense. Just a suggestion though, other than that, the only functionality has already been mentioned, however I dont think a drain on the rad is anything new.

[Hockeydude]

The only thing I can see that being useful for is an x-flow that could use either the left or right inlet and left or right outlet, like use 1 opening on the top and 1 on bottom, but I don't really see that as a big deal.

[Ozzfest05]

I too like this idea just because you can stack radiators and easy draining if mounted in the right position

[Serpentarius]

i think TC is trying to improve the flow via their new designs ..

but truly will the excess flow helps temps? the pumps already had excess flow .. there's a hardly any improvement using 2 pumps either

[Waterlogged]

There's not much you really could do with a rad laid out like that. 2-n-1 rad is one of the few things you could do, if it had dividers in both tanks. If it didn't have any dividers, all it'd be is a very over sized PA160 with an extra set of bungs, and there'd be no way to use the bungs on the same side of the rad without affecting temps, in a very bad way.

[Marcng]

now when i come to think about it, yeah it's quite impossible.

but what if they put in some kind of switch to open and close the divider?
like a rotating valve?

probably cost too much....i'm just day-dreaming....