Radiator questions

[VGuillV]

Why doesn't the water fall through the radiator? In YouTube videos, it looks like the radiator has holes in it. 

 

Where would the water flowing around your loop go? Are there holes on the top of the radiator? 

 

Thanks. 

[flibberdipper]

There are tubes between the fins that carry the water, as I recall.

[Freaky_spider]

i dont really understand your question, but i suppose you mean the holes that the fan screws go in.

[Jaybird]

as the water passes through the tubes with fins the heat dissipates to the fins becuase thermodynamic. 

[boggle4321]

the fins are pipes pretty much, they have a a large surface-area to dissipate heat, the water flows through a channel within the fin in a zig zag, not just straight through the radiator.

[DamDirtyApe]

Like a car!

 

Just replace the words Engine and Pistons with CPU, GPU, MoBo, etc. Whatever you're watercooling.

[Bagmup]

the fins are pipes pretty much, they have a a large surface-area to dissipate heat, the water flows through a channel within the fin in a zig zag, not just straight through the radiator.

 

Other way around, water flows through the tubes, the fins dissipate the heat. The rad is basically split in two, forcing the water to go down one length and up the other, that's why the fitting bungs are on the same end.

[loccilucas]

The fins are basiclly really really thin tubes that the water flows through.

EDIT:ignore that I was wrong

[Bagmup]

The fins are basiclly really really thin tubes that the water flows through.

 

No, the fins dissipate the heat, the tubes carry the coolant.

 

Vertical = Tubes that carry the coolant.

 

Horizontal = Cooling fins that dissipate the heat.

 

[loccilucas]

No, the fins dissipate the heat, the tubes carry the coolant.

Vertical = Tubes that carry the coolant.

Horizontal = Cooling fins that dissipate the heat.

All this time I've been wrong, thanks