Heatkiller Rev3.0 internals at Cooling Masters

[cx-ray]

You only leave out the plastic divider for the inlet.

Mount the backplate with the standoff/spacer nuts.

[Adamantine]

What plastic divider? I didn't have one when I took it apart. I would have definitely taken that crap out if it was in there.

[wez3570]

Mine doesn't have a plastic divider either, just the metal plate, does that stay in for i7?

[cx-ray]

The plastic divider is included separately in the screw bag for MCM CPUs such as Kentsfield. You leave the metal plate in for i7.

[Sarg]

I'm in the process of building my new rig, This is my first complete water cooling set up, I will be water cooling, MoBo: Asus Rampage II Extreme, CPU: i7 975, Cross Fire: 5970 as well as north & south bridge, I will have two loops, maybe even a Smaller Third loop for the North & South Bridge. The case I'm using is the Black Pearl WC ready. And from what I seen so far this CPU water block is a very good Performer. And from what few pictures I have seen of it, it looks like it would need to get lapped, the copper base has a lot of swirl marks in it, well that is what it looks like.

But after searching with google, I found this Version
Which is Chrome plated, but now much better or worse is it being chrome plated.

Any Ideas or Suggestions pertaining to this CPU Block are welcome.

Thanks
Sarg

[century child]

Whatever you do, don't lap this block. It will absolutely kill performance as it has a bowed base which you will remove by lapping. There's a thread about this in here somewhere.

[Jamesrt2004]

zombie thread D=

burn it with fire!!!

anyways... crome plated = no diff.. your gonna struggle with 3 decent loops in the black pearl without modding D= else its easy =D

but yeah.. imo i would wait for supreme highflow... orrrrr get apogee xt


(sorry been on steam forums latley)

[scamps]

zombie thread D=

burn it with fire!!!

anyways... crome plated = no diff.. your gonna struggle with 3 decent loops in the black pearl without modding D= else its easy =D

but yeah.. imo i would wait for supreme highflow... orrrrr get apogee xt


(sorry been on steam forums latley)

Why wait on HF? That´s almost the same stuff with almost the same performance indeed ...

[wuttz]

i just bought an enzotech, i like the concentric pin array.

[Eddy_EK]

i just bought an enzotech, i like the concentric pin array.

Which you can see when the block is mounted?
Of you just like that 3D render

[wuttz]

i meant less restrictive.. but yeah i like to stare at the forged pins too, secretly. =))

[Sarg]

@century child & @Jamesrt2004
Thank you for the reply & info, Yeah I know old thread

But what gets me thinking, Why would they put a bow in to the block, that makes no sense to me, Should it not be Completely Flat for better Heat transfer. With it being bowed how will it get the performance by not covering the entire CPU Heat spreader.

Sarg

[scamps]

Watercool did revise the internals of the Heatkiller:
The small bolts holding the mounting plates are replaced by headless screws and the two bolts holding the nozzle plate have disappeared completly. The new nozzle plate is just clamped inside the bottom of the Heatkiller. Well done I guess!

Ordered and received two new nozzle plates during 1 day from Watercool directly:

[Edward88]

Nice! but i would love to see a heatkiller 4.0 soon really

[busterben]

is the revised nozzle plate compatible with the "old" hk3.0 , scamps?
because of the 2 screws that is

[scamps]

Nice! but i would love to see a heatkiller 4.0 soon really

me, too. But if there would be a new version it would be named 3.5...?!

is the revised nozzle plate compatible with the "old" hk3.0 , scamps?
because of the 2 screws that is

yes, it is (not tried yet, but Watercool has already confirmed). You will certainly have to remove the 2 bolts ...

[Alexandr0s]

Scamps, do you expect performance difference with those new nozzle plates?

[scamps]

Scamps, do you expect performance difference with those new nozzle plates?

yes, by 0,05° on the cores

to be honest: perhaps a little bit more flow because of the better rounding of the inlets (see martins post somewhere regarding Supreme HF), but it won´t be measurable in complete loop I guess

I will leave one plate as it is and take the other one for a little test (Drrrrreeemel ON )