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pluck: Hmm, while indeed rad performance was influenced mostly by airflow (and from heat transfer from fins to air), part of it's efficiency depended from coolant flow too, so efficiency of heat transfer from coolant to watertubes/fins imho while less important but nevertheless also plays some role - and if inducing extra turbulence at expense of more flow resistance worked in current top waterblocks (compared to old ones with simple internal design) to enhance heat transfer from block to coolant, i don't see why that cannot work in rads as well for heat transfer from coolant to watertubes/fins, so internally rifled structure of watertubes in these rads makes some sense for me. Of course, until there will be rads with completely same fin structure and other variables, so that only thing that differs is structured or sleek surface of watertubes, one cannot tell for sure if better performance will be with higher flow because of less pressure drop, or because of better heat transfer because of more surface area and more turbulence in rifled watertubes, even if flow speed will drop because of more flow resistance. Without other variables not being same test will never be apples to apples :/
Last edited by Church; 01-23-2011 at 03:52 AM.
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