Our best effort still SUCKS - Sketchy Heatsinks 3

[AlexTheGreatish]

Our last homemade heatsink was... terrible.  But can we get it right this time? 

 

Buy a Hyper 212 Evo
On Amazon: http://geni.us/rz63zzl
On Newegg: http://geni.us/Eokusf

 

[EarthWormJM2]

4 minutes ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

Buy a Hyper 212 Evo

This...

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

4 minutes ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

On Amazon: http://geni.us/rz63zzl
On Newegg: http://geni.us/Eokusf

 

Please do not. Buy an H7 instead, it's far better not to mention not butt ugly

[Nicnac]

Shoutout for the greatest band ever! @AlexTheGreatish

[jiyeon]

6 minutes ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

Buy a Hyper 212 Evo

As a Hyper 212 owner, I say don't.

 

But then again, if you're a PC builder and haven't used a Hyper 212, you're not a real PC builder.

[JoostinOnline]

Best Futurama reference ever here.

[Streetguru]

So next up is visiting a metal 3D printing factory and just printing out a heatsink?
 

 

[Xerohumoris]

Ask Alec Steele to forge you one. It can even look good from Damascus.

This would be some great content.

 

http://alecsteeleblacksmith.com/about/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWizIdwZdmr43zfxlCktmNw

 

[Shreyas1]

1 hour ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

 

Buy a Hyper 212 Evo
 

And spend 3 hours trying to install it

[HimymCZe]

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We'll call it "GAMING" heat sink ...

[SolarNova]

I cant help but beleve that your purposly being this bad.

 

Its a damn shame, there are some really cool cooling experiments and just ..ways to cool a CPU that can be done relativly easily, yet so far you shown us a very bad example of a AC chiller conversion, and these 'air coolers' that if looked at without any previous knowledge of how they were made or by who, you would think were built from design created by a 5 year old with crayons.

The only good one was Lukes oil submersion cooled PC.

 

@AlexTheGreatish Here's a thought experiement, the answer is somthing you could do as another PC cooling experiment.

What can you build using the following materials?

A ~120mm fan (blowimatron would work)

A water pump

A bucket

3m of ~5" diameter plastic pipe

~5" diameter plastic pipe y connector.

A shower head & tubing

[AlexTheGreatish]

10 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

I cant help but beleve that your purposly being this bad.

 

@AlexTheGreatish Here's a thought experiement, the answer is somthing you could do as another PC cooling experiment.

What can you build using the following materials?

A ~120mm fan (blowimatron would work)

A water pump

A bucket

3m of ~5" diameter plastic pipe

~5" diameter plastic pipe y connector.

A shower head & tubing

I cant help but beleve that your purposly being this bad fun.

 

We actually have some not so sketchy plans right now, they just take time to create.  Also I guess you're basically asking for Top Gear challenges here, which I'm totally down for.

[SolarNova]

6 minutes ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

I cant help but beleve that your purposly being this bad fun.

 

We actually have some not so sketchy plans right now, they just take time to create.  Also I guess you're basically asking for Top Gear challenges here, which I'm totally down for.

Looking forward to seeing them

Top gear challenges for PC cooling sounds like great idea imo. Wasnt what i was inplying, but still. Would certainly bring out some cool ideas im sure. Kinda like a mini scrapyard wars series kinda deal.

[Fullmental]

31 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

I cant help but beleve that your purposly being this bad.

 

I think it's more like "We're going to try one idea out and film it, and if it goes all wrong then oh well, more entertainment value!"

[Guest]

52 minutes ago, AlexTheGreatish said:

I cant help but beleve that your purposly being this bad fun.

 

We actually have some not so sketchy plans right now, they just take time to create.  Also I guess you're basically asking for Top Gear challenges here, which I'm totally down for.

We call it scrapyard wars and not Top Gear Challange to avoid copyright. 

[aezakmi]

what about a solid metal block with drilled holes both and room for 2 small (<80mm) fans? how would that perform?

[IntrepidChuck]

I just drew up a heatsink design I'd like to see LTT try out. It uses a copper wire mesh and aluminum bar to hold it together. The idea is the air would flow through the mesh. Not sure how well it would transfer heat. Perhaps you could remove one of the aluminum bar layers to add a heatpipe.

[Sernefarian]

Yep. This? Maybe?

 

[Egg-Roll]

4 hours ago, seoz said:

As a Hyper 212 owner, I say don't.

 

But then again, if you're a PC builder and haven't used a Hyper 212, you're not a real PC builder.

Sorry, but I went out of my way to avoid that thing, instead I got the Hyper 612 V2 instead, less possible CFM but I don't need high CFM  Also took me less than the 9 minutes they mentioned to install...

[jiyeon]

2 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Sorry, but I went out of my way to avoid that thing, instead I got the Hyper 612 V2 instead, less possible CFM but I don't need high CFM  Also took me less than the 9 minutes they mentioned to install...

You're more sensible than all of us combined, the Hyper 212 is literally the one cooler I would not recommend to anybody, the installation is bonkers. It took me 10-20 minutes because I could not figure out the mounting mechanism to save my life.  

[Godlygamer23]

4 hours ago, Shreyas1 said:

And spend 3 hours trying to install it

It doesn't take long to install it IMO.

[Shreyas1]

1 hour ago, Godlygamer23 said:

It doesn't take long to install it IMO.

Maybe after you know how to do it properly, but the first time you try to install it ( for me anyways ) is pretty hard

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

2 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

It doesn't take long to install it IMO.

Well something with a sensible mount like a Noctua NH-U12 took me like 5 minutes to mount

[Granular]

Here's a not-inane idea for your guys.

The best heat sink is a huge chunk of metal. So how about figuring out a way to mount either a motherboard or a waterblock to an H cross-section metal beam? It would amount to drilling 4 holes in the beam and securing the board/block to it with nuts and bolts.

Well, okay, it would probably also take adding an aluminum or copper spacer to keep the beam interfering with RAM and/or PCIe slots (if it's a motherboard, not a waterblock you're mounting) and some scraping/polishing of paint or rust from the beam, but tthat's a low tech solution with a potential to be better than a store bought heat sink by virtue of fanlessness.

[biohazard918]

10 hours ago, SolarNova said:

I cant help but beleve that your purposly being this bad.

 

Its a damn shame, there are some really cool cooling experiments and just ..ways to cool a CPU that can be done relativly easily, yet so far you shown us a very bad example of a AC chiller conversion, and these 'air coolers' that if looked at without any previous knowledge of how they were made or by who, you would think were built from design created by a 5 year old with crayons.

The only good one was Lukes oil submersion cooled PC.

 

@AlexTheGreatish Here's a thought experiement, the answer is somthing you could do as another PC cooling experiment.

What can you build using the following materials?

A ~120mm fan (blowimatron would work)

A water pump

A bucket

3m of ~5" diameter plastic pipe

~5" diameter plastic pipe y connector.

A shower head & tubing

 

They already did a bong cooler two years ago.