i'm planing on a water cooling scratch build which is in design stages. i'm looking for rads or heater cores which could take fans of 200mm or large, i prefer the heater cores since i could cut it up and things like that. also i just want to put one of these fan 200mm +fans as they are for an sfx build also i woulf prefer if the rads/cores were not of folded fin design
Phoybia do a 200mm square rad. http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/Phobya-Xtreme-200mm-Radiator-pid-11843.html
Car radiators or heater cores should be cheap enough from a scrappy but the vast majority are aluminium so would need anti-corrosion additives to help prevent galvanic corrosion if you also have copper in the loop. I've seen copper truck rads but they were around £200. The other problem would be that 200mm fans have very little static pressure so won't be very effective however a lot depends on your potential heatload.
i'm looking for car heater cores but don't know where to look for them, i don't think we have a local scrappy
thanks something like i was looking for although would have been more preferable if it wasn't folded fin design
also which fan to use this http://www.scan.co.uk/products/180mm-silverstone-air-penetrator-sst-ap181-18018032mm-fan-700-1200rpm or this http://www.scan.co.uk/products/230mm-bitfenix-spectre-black-fan-blue-led-quiet-fluid-dynamic-bearings-(fdb)-900rpm
Bit Tech did a review of large fans a couple of years ago. The Antec Big Boy was the best one http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cooling/2009/10/09/whats-the-best-supersize-case-fan/3 but they didn't test static pressure so it'll be a case of trying it out. Ebay have a lot of heat cores http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?rt=nc...cles_CarParts_SM&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m283
i think bit fenix uses the same oem as the antec for their fans but theirs hgave a slightly different blade design
looks like the mk1 golf heater core is perfect thanks only 20 quid as opposed to the 50 and 80 pound alternatives
Double check how the ports connect. You need to be able to connect your tubing to the ports and possibly braze/solder reducers onto it if they're needed.
