OLD Waterblock ID (Danger Den?)

MandicReally · October 31, 2019

So I've been water-cooling since the early 2000s and recently noticed I had two Danger Den Maze 2 Waterblocks. I decided just to film a little video about them and de-lid one of them to show the inside. Just something silly to show folks what the inside of a block from 15 years ago looks like compared to the relatively fancy ones we take have now.

Today I popped the lid off one and I am now confused. The design of the water passages aren't like I ever remember any of the Maze blocks being. Jumping on the Wayback Machine to look at Danger Den's site, I don't see anything like this. None of the Maze blocks seem to have this internal design (1/2/3/4).

Can anyone recognize what this is? It was a friend's block I got somewhere back in the day. I know for a fact my block is a Maze 2. Externally mine looked identical to this one except my top plate was thicker. I just figured they were different production runs.

SolarNova · October 31, 2019

Likely an early ripoff version.

Cheap blocks are often built this way even today.

MandicReally · October 31, 2019

1 hour ago, SolarNova said:

Likely an early ripoff version.

Cheap blocks are often built this way even today.

This is from like 2002. To my knowledge there were no knock off blocks then. There were maybe a half dozen companies making blocks at all that I can remember.