Stren's 2012 CPU Water Block Roundup

[UrbanSmooth]

Thank you, Siren. I'm choosing the Raystorm because it performs good enough, and it has some LED bling going on that matches my build.

[stren]

Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in...



3 more blocks coming now lol...

[m_jones_]

Can't thank you enough for the hard work, Keep at it!

[stren]

Finally got some flow rate testing done on the blocks. I realized its kinda hard to tell which is which because the legend isn't in order of flow, so here's the other plot to compare with if it helps:





FIXED with the legend in order of restriction

[musicfan]

Very helpful charts. Thanks a bunch for the extraordinary effort.

[Martinm210]

Awesome work as always, thanks!!

[stren]

Fixed the order of blocks in the legend and added a helpful arrow

Now to buy haswell and do all of this over again

[Martinm210]

Soo..what are the 3 newcomers you mentioned if that's something you can share?

Just curious. I have a very old prototype block someone sent me many moons ago that needs testing too. The design is rather unique. From the 80s I believe and uses some sort of special ultra fine microchannel design with a unique parallel jet system. Kind of funny that it's so old yet so advanced in design. Who knows it may even still hang with the best of them.

Need to fabricate a hold down for it though, has some funky oem bracket system.

[stren]

Soo..what are the 3 newcomers you mentioned if that's something you can share?

Just curious. I have a very old prototype block someone sent me many moons ago that needs testing too. The design is rather unique. From the 80s I believe and uses some sort of special ultra fine microchannel design with a unique parallel jet system. Kind of funny that it's so old yet so advanced in design. Who knows it may even still hang with the best of them.

Need to fabricate a hold down for it though, has some funky oem bracket system.

Hey Martin - Well I'm not sure what's going ahead and what's not to be honest. There was a new manufacturer's block that I had tested a prototype of and they seem to have disappeared now. I'm not sure what I'm allowed to say so I'll keep it generic for now. I'm supposed to have two revisions from existing manufacturers coming in. I heard rumors of a third and I also saw a pic of the phobya uc2, so I need to talk to AT about that last one. So possibly anywhere from 0-5 blocks coming in lol. I'm really not sure what's going to happen though because some were mentioned a while back as shipping that day but never showed up and still waiting on a response!

Sad to hear that DT shut down too I really liked the quality of Erik's blocks.

[Martinm210]

Nice..success! Your work in my opinion is by far the best current data out there and as usual it has promoted competition and further advancement.

Look forward to MOAR if you have the will and ability to continue keeping the test bench static. Really enjoy seeing the pressure drop addition as well as the Dt vs pumping power charts. Icing on my data cupcake..loving it!

[Lu(ky]

I see PPC's carrying a new EK-JET Supremacy J4 Jet plate J4 yields up to 1?C lower temperatures on Intel LGA-2011 platform --> H E R E

[stren]

I see PPC's carrying a new EK-JET Supremacy J4 Jet plate J4 yields up to 1?C lower temperatures on Intel LGA-2011 platform --> H E R E

Yeah I tested the prototype here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...acy-Jetplate-4

When I get the real thing I'll include it here

[stren]

Well if you want a super low restriction block you best jump on the last few IceForces because MIPS has gone out of business