Cooling Make yer own TDX!

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  1. friskies

    friskies What's a Dremel?

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    FourDee What's a Dremel?

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    Now that's impressive :thumb:
     
  3. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    Given me some ideas for my next cpu block, cheers :)
     
  4. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    nice...dont like the barbs but you cant have everything right? :thumb:
     
  5. mclean007

    mclean007 Officious Bystander

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    my word. That's incredible!

    Can any Norwegian speakers shed any light on how he managed to get that finish on the base? It looks like one gorgeously lapped single piece of copper, but the other pics clearly show him assembling it from a base plate with a rectangular hole and soldering the finned part into the hole.

    Incredible workmanship.

    :EDIT: think I can just make out where the inset piece is on that last pic (this one). You can just see a very faint horizontal line above the G of "NORGE" in the reflected coin. Still picking my jaw up to be honest
     
  6. friskies

    friskies What's a Dremel?

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    It`s been lapped/polished. Performs almost exactly as the whitewater
     
  7. slater

    slater Mummy Says Im Special

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    Sorry am i missing something here? Thats just another homemade waterblock in the rough shape of a TDX. Its nowhere near a TDX clone. Whats the big deal? :confused:

    Interesting how he did the micro channels without a mill. :thumb:
     
  8. mrplow

    mrplow obey the fist!!

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    Get you, mister negative :p ;)

    Nice writeup. This picture - http://www.overklokking.no/cooling/vann_aktiv/tdx_diy/pics/19.jpg - rox!
     
  9. r3Q

    r3Q Minimodder

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    UM DIDNT YOU READ HIS POST?

    jeez; the reason its so damn awesome is because it costed the very little (thin piece of copper + i smaller thicker piece + plexi) and it is the same proformance. :eyebrow:
     
  10. slater

    slater Mummy Says Im Special

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    :eyebrow: Still dont get it, Not being negitive just wondering if i had missed something. You guys should stop by at procooling theres 100s of these types of 'homebuilt' blocks being built every month. They all look the same. I would rank this one as 'average but interesting' :thumb:
     
  11. mrplow

    mrplow obey the fist!!

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    Yeh but there's not much talk of them here. It'd be great if there were, I for one love reading logs of homebuilt waterblocks. Some of these people amaze me with their ingenuity.
     
  12. slater

    slater Mummy Says Im Special

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    Tell ya what then, next time i make a block il write up full log here on the Bit for your enjoyment :thumb: (should be a GPU TEC block or Possibly a MOSFET block)
     
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    M_D_K Minimodder

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    Id say from the design that they have gone for that it is more of a white water clone and not much like the TDX at all. For starters the TDX uses small pits and as well as channels and walls, there design has taken the concept of the whitewater and made it into a single outlet block. The only reseblence to the TDX that i can see is that the channel milled into the midle plate is of the same shape as the TDX. I think it should be called a WW clone and not the TDX.



    morgan.
     
  14. friskies

    friskies What's a Dremel?

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    Yeah, he calls it a TDX, but he also says he borrows some ideas from the WW. Anyhow it`s kinda easy to make and performs/looks good
     
  15. Sc0rian

    Sc0rian Here comes the farmer

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    blah!!! :baby:

    Shame I can't read it...

    Pic's is all you need tho. I love the idea so much more better temps. Good job.
     
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