Heatercore + radiator?

what's the difference between the 2?

i have rescently ordered a Exterme black ice pro and i have an extra heater core laying around..

will i get good results to use both of them?

the radiator will be mounted on the top of the case, and the heater core will be mounted where the HDDs are

it will be pump -> heatercore (no fan) -> chipset -> CPU block -> extreme ice pro (fan)

the pump tat will be used will be Eheim 1048



is that a good set up?

A heatercore is a radiator. It is just one that was designed for cars. In reality you should be able to get away using just one of them.

yea i should be able to get away wit using just one..

but why? when i have an extra one laying around


ok i think it would work good...

now my other question is.. can i paint the bitch.. (heatercore)

Tape the fin area of the heater core, then paint it. Basically, you don't want to paint the area the air flows through.

Originally posted by swatbat
A heatercore is a radiator. It is just one that was designed for cars. In reality you should be able to get away using just one of them.

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Besides the totally different workings of the two

Radiator --> Pipes passing back and fourth with fins attached to them.

Heatercore --> Flows through the fins.

is either one preferred over the other ?

Originally posted by Spidey329
Besides the totally different workings of the two

Radiator --> Pipes passing back and fourth with fins attached to them.

Heatercore --> Flows through the fins.

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Not quite.

A heatercore is a very, very efficient radiator design. It's like a mini version of a car radiator. A heatercore IS a radiator, indeed. However, a heatercore works by having tanks on either side, and many many small pipes(as near as I can tell, they're also oblong, not circular in shape) that pass between the tanks. The fin density is *very* high, and the surface area between the heatercore and the water is also very high(because of the many many small pipes). The exact same principle is implemented in a car's radiator. To the best of my knowledge, the black ice radiators are heatercores, or at least, are designed on the same principle. The difference between the two is that a heatercore could be defined as a "multi-pass" radiator, and the other kind, the kind with basically just a bent copper tube passing through some big fins, is called a "single-pass" radiator. The names are fairly self-explainatory, but basically in a heatercore, water *can* pass through the fins more than once. In-fact, when mounted upright, that's part of the reason why they're so efficient. That's why the water intake on a car's radiator is at the top, and the outlet is at the bottom. The water passes through the fins, and then because it's cooler and thus more dense, drops down. However, because of the pressures inside of the radiator/tanks, it can/usually does make many passes through the radiator fins before finally exiting out the bottom. A single pass radiator only flows the water through the fins once.

In conclusion though, to answer your question, you *could* use both, but unless you plan on cooling your cpu, NB, video card, HD, PSU, etc, you probably won't need to deal with that much heat.

nice post spewn

In your case i wouldn't bother using both, although your pump can handle it, i doubt it'd be pushing a lot of water through the setup. The heatercore isn't very restrictive flow-wise, but i have a feeling the BIX is a little more restrictive, and both of them together may introduce a higher flow drop than you probably want

Use the heatercore in your current rig,

build another rig for the BIX, wouldn't want to have any parts laying around...

that's the way it seems to work for me...

ill buy the BIX off you for fity fi cent