Interesting Idea?

[Trik'Stari]

Just an idea, but a good one I think.

 

I was thinking about the design of water blocks for CPU's, and I had the thought of taking a standard water block, and attaching a heat sink to it (with or without fans if weight is an issue) and replacing the heatpipe's on the heatsink, with small lines to the inlet and or outlet on the waterblock? To be a little more specific, you could have the inlet on the water block itself, and have the outlet lead to a few lines up through the heatsink, and have them merge back into one as the outlet; or if it would work better, have the inlet be on the "top" of the heatsink, and lead down into the waterblock, and out through a normal port.

 

The reason I think this is a good idea is for small form factor, water cooled LAN-boxes. I don't know if people do water cooling for those, but I would think since with a normal water cooling setup, that space is unused to begin with, so adding an admittedly small extra radiator, plus whatever radiator you're already using, could only result in a net gain in cooling.

 

Just an idea lol. If you could somehow get it to work with transparent tubing inside the fins of the heatsink, it would look ballin as hell illuminated.

[ttam]

So like this Asetek (they pretty much made the AIO coolers) cooler?

 

[Shd0w2]

Why not try a sketchup version to show us more?

[dtronicsuk]

i like your idea

 

but unfortunately it would be no better than water cooling, and even if this idea was made it be more efficient to either water cool or use a fan and heat sink.

 

im not saying it wont work just that i dont see how it would be better than what we got

 

but keep thinking dude, we need people like you, who come up with new and better stuff

[Trik'Stari]

I was thinking of it more as an addition to a water cooling loop.

 

Don't think of it as a radiator sticking off the end. Think of it simply as a water block that just has heat sink fins around its inlet or outlet channel, to help dissipate a little bit of heat before or after the coolant enters the cpu water block. And If I had a garage and enough equipment I would totally make a sketchup version.

 

I just think it could look badass as hell and provide a minor benefit. What I am thinking is similar to that picture, but using an air cooler style instead of a radiator style. (less restrictive airflow, and they look better I think)

[dev893]

what it sounds like is you are trying to  make a hybrid water/air cooler which some company already did though I can't remember which

[The Crazed Child]

So like this Asetek (they pretty much made the AIO coolers) cooler?

 

Do you have a link for that?