MCW2000 Preview - Liquid Cooling
There is nothing better then waking up in the morning, checking the ol' email and seeing
a picture of this liquid cooling beauty in your mailbox :-) This is
Swiftech's new MCSW2000 water jacket.
This machined block of aluminum has
(16) 5mm x 12mm channels milled into it, and has the capacity to hold
60ml of cooling fluid. The cold plate measures 5" x" 2.5" x 3/4", and has its
cover welded on! No rubber gaskets or bolts to possibly leak
water all over your motherboard, just pure welded aluminum ;-) The block
comes with standard compression fittings as you can see in
the picture (with Teflon tape on the threads for added leak protection) that will fit 1/4" or 3/8" plastic or copper piping.
Cost is $49 for the MCW2000.
For flatness freaks like myself each surface of the cold plate, whether it's in contact with a
CPU, TEC (Thermoelectric Cooler - Peltier), or a copper plate has been milled flat to give the
best possible surface. Knowing the MC1000, I'll take a guess
and say they
are flat to within 0.0005", but we'll have to wait a bit to find
the exact value.
One other interesting factoid concerns the side of
the MCW2000 designed for mounting two TEC's (one side is specifically designed
for two TEC's, the other, for liquid only and single TEC configurations). The
aluminum on this side has been constructed so that there
is less then 1mm of material between the cooling liquid and the TEC's promoting
superior heat migration.
"So what" you say, just another cold plate to push water through - WRONG!
Here is where the real benefits of Swiftech's design could shine through, instead of only
working with one type of CPU, the MCW2000 has the following capabilities
which make it compatible with just about anything that's being overclocked today.
While there are a few different variations this
cold plate can be used for, the ideal one for most overclockers involves
strapping this cold plate to a CPU and pumping water through it, which is cooled by some type
of radiator. Swiftech have sourced out a small radiator about the size of a
120mm fan that should be able to fit in your average full-tower to small server
case. For pumping, it looks like a submersible pump capable of up to 80
Gal/minute will be available for use with the unit.
The flxability of this plate would also allow it to be
used with an existing system to cool the coolent (by 5 degrees or more according
to Swiftech) as it loops around the system, or like the above in a dual MCW2000
setup - where each cold plate has TWO
TECS's. Something tell's me a 250 Watt PSU would have
a hard time with this type of set up ;)
For those of you who have all the cooling gear already you could easily just
get the cold plate and hook it up to your existing pump system. But if your
looking to begin water cooling and don't have any gear, you have the option of
getting everything you'll need from one location instead of hunting around for
this and that which can be a bit of a pain as much as it is fun.
You can check out some more info on this cool piece of
overclocking gear at Swiftech's Site. Be assured once
we get our hands on the MCW2000 we'll let
you know how it performs under the overclocking gun!
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