OK, friends, long time we haven't seen some new DDC tops. This is about to change soon, very soon.

SWC comes from Sugar4o Water Cooling - Sugar4o is water cooling guru here in Bulgaria. He has been designing and producing water blocks, modding pumps, etc. since the dawn of water cooling. Quite many people had/have his cpu, chipset, gpu blocks. Including me. Some few weeks ago he bought a DDC pump from Laing Hungary Inc. He just couldn't resist to modding it.

Enough of the man, let's talk pump tops!

Testing methods:

High restriction system, consisting of a SWC block (very low restriction), some thermaltake vga block (highly restrictive), and restrictive barb at the end. Test is filling a 2 liter bottle.

Free flow - only pump with some tubing. Test - filling a 5+ liter bottle.

Barbs used are the the gray plastic you see in the pictures - 8mm inner diameter, 11mm outer. Only Petra's top was tested with D-tek's (should get some advance from that).

Pump was DDC 3.2, 18W, blue impeller

RESULTS

Restricted system......................................Free flow






The top has some major differences on the inside chamber. It's only a prototype - even the chamber is not polished. So even better results are expected after finishing the insides!

The reservoir is also a prototype - it's glued with the top with some chloroform. In high flow conditions a huge whirlpool on horizontal axis is formed and is the next thing to fix. This should improve flowrate quite a lot. The finished product should be optional and easy to mount and rotate to suit different needs.


HERE ARE SOME PICS:
(idiot taking pictures, pls don't kill me)

THE SWC DDC TOP


Shot with DMC-FZ7 at 2008-05-19


Shot with DMC-FZ7 at 2008-05-19

THE SWC DDC TOP WITH RES


Shot with DMC-FZ7 at 2008-05-19


Shot with DMC-FZ7 at 2008-05-19


Shot with DMC-FZ7 at 2008-05-19


Shot with DMC-FZ7 at 2008-05-19


Shot with DMC-FZ7 at 2008-05-19