Liquid Cooling Render Gallery

**kinghong1970** · 02-10-2009, 11:15 AM

quit drawing em and git to making em!!!

damn you with your eye candy...
:P

**Waterlogged** · 02-10-2009, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by kinghong1970

quit drawing em and git to making em!!!

damn you with your eye candy...
:P

I blame evil.

**Metric** · 02-10-2009, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by evil-98

I think Metric is on the maxwell train with me now

so unless you plan to switch over (which shouldnt be too hard theres a sketchup plug in) the materials wont really help.

Yep, I switched over to Maxwell since it seems to have much better support material-wise (and better selection) and it renders multiple times faster than Kerkythea.

Evil, think you could send a 2D profile of your BP barbs (something I can revolve around a axis)?

jonathankru: What's the IOR for your acrylic material? It looks too low, increasing it might help.

**jonathankru** · 02-10-2009, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Metric

Yep, I switched over to Maxwell since it seems to have much better support material-wise (and better selection) and it renders multiple times faster than Kerkythea.

Evil, think you could send a 2D profile of your BP barbs (something I can revolve around a axis)?

jonathankru: What's the IOR for your acrylic material? It looks too low, increasing it might help.

I am still a noob at Max. Only been using it for a couple of days. I dont know what IOR is but i am googleing it as i type to see if i can find out more.
Thanks for the tip.

**jonathankru** · 02-10-2009, 01:36 PM

Well here is another one. I am still experimenting with textures so it is not a very good render. Will work some more on the render later and update it when i am done.

**bentleya** · 02-10-2009, 02:09 PM

Kudus, to metric and evil once again, masters of maxwell, been playing for about 2 hours so far, i have lernt not much

can't change material + can't install material download from the interweb

Will try again tomorow night

**evil-98** · 02-10-2009, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by Metric

Evil, think you could send a 2D profile of your BP barbs (something I can revolve around a axis)?

heres are the inventor and solidworks files

sorry no sketch up version

edit:

@bentleya;

depending on what software you choose to use will determine weather or not i can help you in the actual rendering. materials and such we can share no problem, over all setup of the renders etc are the same but work flow of each software is different. i render through 3DSMAX or use maxwell studio, tho i like the flow of 3DSMAX more.

**bentleya** · 02-10-2009, 02:32 PM

it won't let me download it evil? i just get random smbyails come up on a webpage

**evil-98** · 02-10-2009, 02:33 PM

right-click save link as

also recommend you use firefox, when i click the link it asks me if i want to DL

**bentleya** · 02-10-2009, 02:52 PM

i use safari, try to keep programs to the least

@bentleya;

depending on what software you choose to use will determine weather or not i can help you in the actual rendering. materials and such we can share no problem, over all setup of the renders etc are the same but work flow of each software is different. i render through 3DSMAX or use maxwell studio, tho i like the flow of 3DSMAX more

3ds confuses me more, i don't get it you get vray, maxwell, mental, i'm totaly confused i have maxwell and 3DS installed, so what ever is easier to learn

**Mick64** · 02-10-2009, 03:03 PM

It must be nice to be able to afford the Maxwell render.

There's no way I'd spend that sort of money,

unless it was for a business venture!

**evil-98** · 02-10-2009, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by bentleya

i use safari, try to keep programs to the least

3ds confuses me more, i don't get it you get vray, maxwell, mental, i'm totaly confused i have maxwell and 3DS installed, so what ever is easier to learn

well it takes years of work to learn and understand the work flow of 3DSMAX, some pick i up faster then others. personally ive been using 3dsmax since version 5.

what are you using to model?

Originally Posted by Mick64

It must be nice to be able to afford the Maxwell render.

There's no way I'd spend that sort of money,

unless it was for a business venture!

its a good thing im in the business

definitely there's no reason you should have to switch over, you seem to be getting rather proficient with what your using. I personally have never used it but id like to see different lighting from you

**FrostyPanda** · 02-10-2009, 04:03 PM

Well, here's my first attempt at a waterblock. I finally got the gist of SolidWorks, so I threw this one together last night. I know I don't have an o ring, mounting hardware, or screws and such but I think it's pretty good for a first time. I'm still getting used to maxwell and I'm having some trouble with the depth of field as you can see by the blurryness in some places. Well here we go! Please feel free to criticize and give me pointers!

@Metric: What material do you use for the copper in your renderings? Do you make your own or do you download them from mxmgallery.com?

Block Rev. 1

**Angmaar** · 02-10-2009, 04:08 PM

Do you need sketchup pro to render things in Kerkythea Echo?

The renders look AMAZING!

**Webby** · 02-10-2009, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by hotwaxisbad

Do you need sketchup pro to render things in Kerkythea Echo?

The renders look AMAZING!

No just a plugin to export the model to Kerkythea it is available on the site

**Metric** · 02-10-2009, 04:35 PM

FrostyPanda: Yes, the copper is one I made myself. You can download it here.
hotwaxisbad: Nope, you only need the regular, free version of Sketchup to render in Kerkythea.

Many thanks for the Bitspower barb Evil

**Mick64** · 02-10-2009, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by FrostyPanda

Well, here's my first attempt at a waterblock. I finally got the gist of SolidWorks, so I threw this one together last night. I know I don't have an o ring, mounting hardware, or screws and such but I think it's pretty good for a first time. I'm still getting used to maxwell and I'm having some trouble with the depth of field as you can see by the blurryness in some places. Well here we go! Please feel free to criticize and give me pointers!

Nice to see you're off the starting blocks Frosty. Not a bad start! Keep em coming.

**bentleya** · 02-10-2009, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by evil-98

well it takes years of work to learn and understand the work flow of 3DSMAX, some pick i up faster then others. personally ive been using 3dsmax since version 5.

what are you using to model?

Well, using sketchup but did want to change to soildworks so i can get some stuff made, as sketchup sucks at exporting

**FrostyPanda** · 02-11-2009, 01:48 AM

I threw this together earlier tonight. I'll post pix's of the top parts when they're done rendering...

(

Dayam...it's really late........1:44, 1:45, 1:46......)

Also, thanks for that material Metric

**basserdan** · 02-11-2009, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by FrostyPanda

I threw this together earlier tonight. I'll post pix's of the top parts when they're done rendering...

(

Dayam...it's really late........1:44, 1:45, 1:46......)

Also, thanks for that material Metric

Excuse me for being too dumb to know better but - a top with an intake port in the middle and 4 exit ports (say 1/4"), one at each corner.

**PrometheusCon** · 02-11-2009, 06:43 AM

Originally Posted by basserdan

Excuse me for being too dumb to know better but - a top with an intake port in the middle and 4 exit ports (say 1/4"), one at each corner.

Or it could be like the gtz/fusion and have a mid plate with 4 corner slots that route the water to 1 exit port.

**FrostyPanda** · 02-11-2009, 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by basserdan

Excuse me for being too dumb to know better but - a top with an intake port in the middle and 4 exit ports (say 1/4"), one at each corner.

Um......not really haha. I just thought this looked cool, it doesn't have to be super functional.

Originally Posted by PrometheusCon

Or it could be like the gtz/fusion and have a mid plate with 4 corner slots that route the water to 1 exit port.

But then I couldn't use acrylic!

Here is what the final block part looks like. i didn't make the field of view big enough, but w/e. I'll make a mount for it when I get home from school.

**neo mike** · 02-11-2009, 07:32 AM

Nice stuff guys, wow very cool, i would like to get into this, what program would you recomend for a total noob, thats not to outrageous in price ? i have lots of waterblock, and heatsink ideas i would love to render.

**Metric** · 02-11-2009, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by neo mike

Nice stuff guys, wow very cool, i would like to get into this, what program would you recomend for a total noob, thats not to outrageous in price ? i have lots of waterblock, and heatsink ideas i would love to render.

The completely free solution would be Google Sketchup and Kerkythea.

FrostyPanda: Great design. With your current pin structure, it would make more sense to use the same flow path as the Fuzion as PrometheusCon suggested. You could always have the middle section be made out of acrylic as well

**bentleya** · 02-11-2009, 11:03 AM

@FrostyPanda - Loving that base design , you could also do a fusion style top like fitseries makes http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=215817

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