OMG this design is so stupid, waste so much of the pressure on goin against the gravity.

both of the inlet and outlet is from the bottom which means it'll still loose pressure to the gravity.

instead of goin vertical, why not go horizontal ?

i think thermaltake is try to sell overrated products again.

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Jul 27 2005, 10:19 PM

copper blocks are completed already and the rads will be completed within this week....]
but i still get that tygon tubing......hmm.......

alamak, that pump's spec is worse than Nirox 2800 and it has to flow thru so many components and a rad.
it's definitely not worth buying for the performance wise.

on a halt now. but major components are ready.

going to get round acrylic tubes as reservoir, rads' case not yet completed.
havent called up tygon tubing supplier yet.

AFAIK, the so called copper is actually a mixture of copper and brass, because brass is so much cheaper than copper.
brass is material used in our piping system, like water taps.

i'm not sure about DD's rads thou.

brass is a bit yellowish compared to copper. so they look alike.

i dunt think that Coolwave rads are really " copper "
coz if i were the manufacturer, i wont use pure copper also

i wanna ask something

for those who used acrylic reservoirs, do u have to clean in very often ?
are u okay with a totall sealed acrylic reservoir ?

who said reserator is good at the first place ?

the surface area is even smaller than a 120mm rad i think

hmm.....as far as i know, the design of the reserator is not meant for low temperatures,
it's meant for sleek design only n to absorb heat rather than to release.

nonetheless, it's stupid to pump water against the gravity coz it's a waste of energy


as for the PWM, u might want to moun a slow RPM fan near ur proc


dei, why nobody answer my question ???
nobody here uses round acrylic reservoir before ?

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Oct 12 2005, 12:09 AM

IMHO, changing the pump wont help much also. u can try to check out the temperature of the reserator fins without air-con.

the thing is that, heat is trapped inside the metal itself, so it's not related to the pump
n check ur inlet and outlet water temperature, if the difference is like ~1°C, then this thing is doomed de

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Oct 12 2005, 12:09 AM

another new product from thermaltake to confuse ppl with new concept again....
performance wise i think is a no, coz the water has to go thru so many loops, and the pump they provide is usually the usual sucky pump.....

just look at the recommended setup below, u can actually add this to big water
just imagine that poor pump had to go thru


this what what i had in mind, but the one that i planned was the radiator is on top with the fins in vertical position.
it'll make a lot of difference because heat dissipated from the fins can escape ASAP in vertical position, rather than horizontal because the passage for heat is basically blocked


this is a passive liquid cooling system.

and passive LCS like Reserator and this cant perform.

the reserator structure is only a bottle structure, heat doesnt escape as fast as a radiator because the water is still " thick ", and there are no circulation in it.

for a passive LCS, the pipe must be connected to the surface, and not just to contain the water. surface area plays the most important role in passive cooling.
the more surface area, the faster the dissipation of heat

another thing is that, Alu get all those funny decomposition after a while after usage. so the performance will drop drastically if u dunt open up to clean it.

what is that thing ?
copper pipes with fins ?

hmm......not bad idea also

oil cooler will kill the pressure of the pump man.........

i've seen one new design for the gear box oil exchanger for the new BMW as an engineer told me......

super nice design.....hot and cold chambers sandwich each other for like 30 layers, and the hot chamber is for the oil while the cold chamber is for the watercooling to run.
and the inner chamber is so god damn small, to make the oil thin for supreme heat transfer........but as usual.....pressure problems again

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Nov 10 2005, 12:37 AM

i can get Nirox for RM 26, supplier is indeed in penang.
hmm.......quite good also....considering is has to pass thru a dual heatcore...

btw, what tubing size do u use ?

amok, the tubings u use is tygon ????
and is it ID - 0.5inch ?

actually it's the matter of pricing and not the matter of availability.
only ppl who plays watercooling a lot knows why they pay a whole lot more for tygon

i guessed that the block will be able to handle higher load procs since the water going in is in high pressure......

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Nov 13 2005, 01:37 AM

my custom made reservoir
anyone interested pls pm me (can custom the fittings and LEDs as well)