Was mulling over the idea of making myself a universal GPU block at work today and am trying to decide which design is best to go for. These are the water channels that will go over the core.
These are very early design ideas I've literally made in the last half an hour. These are all taken in the perspective of a cross section, so imagine the waterblock chopped in half and you are looking the same way the water will flow.
Design 1.
Conventional slots with 0.5mm between heat source and water channels.
I'm limited here with the depth is can go with the channels as its the only tooling I have available
surface area (in contact with water) 3640mm^2
Design 2.
Easier to machine but requires me to have more metal between the heat source and the water channels.
Surface area (in contact with water) 3166.8mm^2
Design 3.
Same as 2 but an extra row of holes. I'm not really limited how many rows I can put in (without being ridiculous) but have to keep the lump of metal at the bottom.
Surface are (in contact with water) 4750.2 mm^2
So what do you think? How much of a difference would I see with there being 2mm instead of 0.5mm between the heat source and the water channels? made of copper of course
Which design do you think would be least restrictive?
Like I said this would just something I started thinking about at work today and though i would ask for opinions.
These are very early design ideas I've literally made in the last half an hour. These are all taken in the perspective of a cross section, so imagine the waterblock chopped in half and you are looking the same way the water will flow.
Design 1.
Conventional slots with 0.5mm between heat source and water channels.
I'm limited here with the depth is can go with the channels as its the only tooling I have available
surface area (in contact with water) 3640mm^2
Design 2.
Easier to machine but requires me to have more metal between the heat source and the water channels.
Surface area (in contact with water) 3166.8mm^2
Design 3.
Same as 2 but an extra row of holes. I'm not really limited how many rows I can put in (without being ridiculous) but have to keep the lump of metal at the bottom.
Surface are (in contact with water) 4750.2 mm^2
So what do you think? How much of a difference would I see with there being 2mm instead of 0.5mm between the heat source and the water channels? made of copper of course
Which design do you think would be least restrictive?
Like I said this would just something I started thinking about at work today and though i would ask for opinions.
