New
#1
Liquid flow in a CPU cooler
Now I am about to rehash the cooling on my Sandy Bridge from a huge cumbersome air cooler which prevents me from getting at the RAM sticks properly and fitting the secondary side panel fan. For what I am using I am fitting a Corsair Hydro Series H90 140mm Liquid CPU Cooler.
Now I have watched the vidoes on how to do it and I have fitted liquid before but there is one thing that I cannot find an answer for and that is which direction does the liquid inside the radiator unit flow??
Now in a car the hot liquid flows through the core from one end of the radiator (in tank at the top) to the other end of the radiator (to the lower tank) hence cooling the liquid passing through the core.
However on the vast number of liquid coolers I have looked at including the one I am getting the tubes connecting the pump on the CPU to and from the radiator actually are fitted at the same end of that unit (the same tank) so how does the incoming heated liquid pass through the core of the radiator in ordeer for the liquid to be cooled??
Surely logic would tell one that the liquid will just pass along that end tank from the input connection from the CPU to the output connection and thence back to the CPU. Again logic tells me that the only cooling that will take place from the end tank surfaces. Or is there a secondary fitting inside that end tank ie a metal barrier blocking off the outlet connection from the inlet connection??
Now I can picture in my minds eye a barrier set about half way along that tank that would make the liquid for the best part to flow through half of the core heated and then back up the second half of the core to the outlet connection being further cooled before returning back to the CPU pump unit.
I have drawn a rough idea of what I think must have to happen but anyone who knows exactly what does happen please advise.