Quote from: Defkin on May 27, 2013, 08:43:43 AM

Quote from: Bicknellski on May 27, 2013, 08:03:25 AM

The design could be easily lengthened for the K16 to create a longer block right?

Some have plans to use the heat sinks to help give rigidity to the boards when they are daisy chained together.

Off the shelf here you can get the aluminum sq tube 200x50 in lengths of 6.5m
Cannot get flat bar that wide (that i could find) but you can cut sheet (was looking at nesting and getting it laser cut anyhow).

K16 is 100x100 so you could fit 2 across a 200m tube with no tolerances. So 2 mounted either side is 4 per 100mm. 6.5m length could in theory hold 260 boards. My concern here is 260x40w=10.4Kw can enough water flow through the block to cool that many boards?

I do not know how good the heat rejection on the tube will be yet but a am comfortable with my 38 x K16 on one block.

The K16 Modular Design is a 4x4 16 boards (400mm x 400mm no tolerances). You could stack two 200x50 water blocks one on top of each other?

Lots of different variables here...

Thing is those with larger orders of boards would like a modular system for water block I think... so if you can come up with a design that could do say a 4 x K16 that be better than an individual unit in terms of putting these units together. I will leave it there and see what you can think of and what is possible. Personally going with forced air but so many would be interested in water blocks even on single boards I think but not sure how much benefit you get for a single K16 as I think forced air can pretty much handle it given what we see with the original Avalon. You market I think would be farmers.

K64 is 200mm x 200mm that is the largest board I think BKKCoins said he would even bother with. Typically most will get a K16 or 100mm x 100mm what I was drawing was 4 x K16 daisy chained in a linear format which is possible. Heat sinks can be extruded to fairly large lengths and make the Klondike into a Bar... if you like Wink