d-tek fuzion water block

frankgehry · Post by **frankgehry** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:37 am

Has anyone been following the test results and discussions of the new d-tek fusion water block on the other computer sites? Does this mean that designers are moving away from jet impingement?

cyberspyder · Post by **cyberspyder** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:44 pm

yea, at XS and Overclock

Marci · Post by **Marci** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:54 am

Due to the numbing effect of the IHS on today's CPUs, Jet Impingements effects / benefits are also numbed, to the extent that non-jet designs basically beat them.

Jet-Impingment can still hold it's own and beat open-flow pin style blocks happily, but it costs a LOT more to implement the required number of jets and nozzles to cover the necessary cooling patch for the large-area cores around (quads etc), far too much to remain competitive / considerable as a product choice, and far too much to produce a one-off to gain proof-of-concept, altho scaling of results from Storm implementations available (G4, G5 etc) are sufficient proof-of-concept for most.

So yes, designers are moving away from jet impingement... for now... but when the multicore cpus get consolidated onto single dies, J-I blocks will likely begin to make a comeback once again...

frankgehry · Post by **frankgehry** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:31 am

Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for.

cyberspyder · Post by **cyberspyder** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:54 pm

Marci wrote:Due to the numbing effect of the IHS on today's CPUs, Jet Impingements effects / benefits are also numbed, to the extent that non-jet designs basically beat them.

Jet-Impingment can still hold it's own and beat open-flow pin style blocks happily, but it costs a LOT more to implement the required number of jets and nozzles to cover the necessary cooling patch for the large-area cores around (quads etc), far too much to remain competitive / considerable as a product choice, and far too much to produce a one-off to gain proof-of-concept, altho scaling of results from Storm implementations available (G4, G5 etc) are sufficient proof-of-concept for most.

So yes, designers are moving away from jet impingement... for now... but when the multicore cpus get consolidated onto single dies, J-I blocks will likely begin to make a comeback once again...

would you rate the apogee GT higher than the FuZion?

Brendan