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RADIICAL NEWS 2005 |
December 14, 2005 Part Four of the Difficult Case Cooling project the Test Results are posted here.December 04, 2005 Part Three of our Christmas project is now posted on the Difficult Case Project page here.November 29, 2005 The low profile Maze 4 GPU blocks have now arrived and we are happy with the new barb sizing. We are also now able to offer a GPU package with our Evolution Two Extreme kits.
Now that this block has arrived we will be continuing to evaluate the performance of the Maze 4 low profile block using 5/16" tubing in Part Three of our Christmas project here. The work on evaluating the dual Sli package for this kit is continuing. November 28, 2005 For those of you following our Christmas project Part Two of the difficult case project is posted today here.November 23, 2005 Today we start the difficult case cooling project which is or Christmas project for this year. In this project will take an incomplete (read difficult case) and fit one of our Evolution Two Extreme kits to it. The project can be found here. New stock of Maze4 block should be available shortly including the new low profile blocks from Danger den. We hope to have the Maze 4 blocks available for our Evolution Two kits soon. November 21, 2005 More questions answered in the Evolution Two Kit FAQ today.November 17, 2005 Final day of testing on the live testing page of the Evolution Two Extreme Kit with the Fluidxp coolant today. The test unit has reached a stable 900Mhz overclock and is being tested at full load using Folding@Home.November 16, 2005 We have added a FluidXP UV Reactive Dye FAQ to our FAQ's page here. If you have any questions about this product drop us an email and we will add the answer to the FAQ page. Live testing using the Evolution Two Extreme Kit is moving on to overclocking the Prescott 3Ghz. Currently the overclocking has reached 3.7Ghz. The progress can be seen here on the live testing page. November 15, 2005 More FAQ questions about the Evolution Two Extreme kit answered including the first look at the FluidXP "Midnight Blue" UV reactive dye here on the FAQ page. Live testing commenced on the Evolution Two Extreme Kit using FluidXP coolant on the Live Testing page using an Intel Prescott 3Ghz CPU in addition a final run at full load for the Barton powered over clocked test unit using the Evolution Two Extreme Kit. November 14, 2005 For all of those who have emailed stock of the FluidXP UV reactive dye concentrate has arrived. Colors available are Midnight blue, Alien Green, Red Flame and Deep Purple. Stock of the UV dye is limited at this stage.November 09, 2005 We are still waiting on delivery of the FluidXP products including the FluidXP UV reactive dye. In response to the number of requests to live test the Evolution Two Extreme kit with clear tubing and the FluidXP dye.........consider it done. We are currently preparing an Intel Prescott 3 Ghz for the task. Perhaps a retro fit of the Evolution Two Kit into one of those old "impossible" cases could be the basis of a pre Christmas project. More questions added to the Evolution Two Faq page. Added a Radiical Radiator Faq to the Faq page. October 28, 2005 We have received a shipment of 120 mm Xinruilian fans they can be found here. In addition to the fans we now have PCI slot pass through's and the Bugs Legs standoff kits available. Other news is the release from testing of the Radiical Evolution Two Extreme Kit. It is now available for sale and can be found here. We are anticipating FluidXP UV reactive dye will be available shortly so stay tuned.October 22, 2005 Testing has started on the Live Testing page of the Evolution Two Kit with the Maze 4 GPU block fitted to an old Ti4200 Nvidia card. If you want to see how the performance has been effected then have a look you may be very surprised. We will remain in testing mode for a further week to ensure stability of the completed kit and then make the Radiical Evolution Two Extreme Kit available on the web site. There will be some down times for our private testing for those of you who follow the testing procedure so be aware. At this stage the Maze4 GPU block will be an optional extra to the basic Evolution Two Kit.October 20, 2005 Testing today is on the Evolution Two Kit with a dual fan single pass radiator. Following on from this will be the much requested addition of a Maze4 GPU block
into the testing loop. This should occur within the next few days. October 13, 2005 First pictures of the Evolution Two Extreme Kit are posted on the kits page. The Maze 4 GPU block are available and are on the Water Blocks page here. Currently we are stocking Maze 4 with 1/2" fittings but will add smaller sizes shortly. October 11, 2005 Added the questions you sent in to the Evolution Two FAQ page. Have started the testing of the dual radiator (Extreme) version of the Evolution Two Kit. We will be adding this to the Live Testing page shortly for those of you who like to monitor the progress of our test units.The radiator being used in this test series is the dual pass version of our dual fan radiator. We will be able to run the single pass version for those of you wanting a direct comparison of dual versus single pass radiator performance. Water chiller news is that the unit is progressing and we should have more on that later. It is currently being set up to test thermostat function and response times for cooling on the die simulator. October 10, 2005 Thanks for the mail about the Evolution Two Kit. I have posted a FAQ here to answer some of the questions you may have about this kit. Feel free to e-mail in any questions you think have not been covered by the FAQ and we will get onto them. The FAQ is here.October 08, 2005 We thought a bit of Bling was in order for the radiators so here is a Gold plated version.
October 07, 2005 We have been testing the latest variation of our SRX block at sub zero in our chiller project for the last few weeks. This Delrin topped SRX is the latest development of our water block range. The Delrin topped SRX has come about to meet the need for a light weight water block suitable for use in normal or chilled water cooling. The small footprint and high adaptability of this block to multi platform use makes it a very viable alternative to larger more restrictive blocks.
Other news is the initial testing of the Evolution Two Extreme kit has started and the kit should be available in about two weeks time. The Evolution Two Extreme kit adds the dual or single pass dual fan radiator to the kit and increases the cooling capacity. The standard kit components are included with the Extreme kit. These include the items pictured below.
The final piece of news is that we should have the Maze 4 GPU block available in about a weeks time. It is our intention to start testing immediately to evaluate the Maze 4 for inclusion in our range of water cooling kits. September 30, 2005 Part four of the Water Chiller Project is posted to day. It can be found here.September 29, 2005 Today we start our Spring time specials with Eheim 1250 pumps for $140.00 incl GST. They will be supplied with brass barbs to inlet and outlet in that price. So if you are thinking about upgrading your pump then this is the special for you. This offer will end when stocks are gone so get in quick or miss out. The 7/16" Tygon is now back in stock for all of those of you waiting for this item. September 27, 2005 Today we will be running pre cooled coolant testing with the water chiller. Part three of the Chiller project has been posted here. September 26, 2005 We will be live testing the Water chiller for short periods of time in the next few days. The Tygon in 7/16" will be back in stock shortly. We anticipate that being later on this week. The next part of the Water chiller project will be put up on the projects page tomorrow.
September 21, 2005 Today we are introducing the Series Three versions of our CWX and WHX water blocks. The Series Three version has not changed the external appearance of these blocks but has concentrated on some major changes to the inlet and outlet flow characteristics. Flow rates at lower pumping rates have increased to favor performance at lower level of fluid flow. Part Two of the Chiller project has been posted here. This part deals with setting up the tubing and making it all fit in a small space. Performance will be dealt with in part three which is still being constructed. I think it would be relevant to say that we have reached -40+ with this particular chiller at which stage we froze the Methylated spirit water mixture. We are in the final days of testing the Evolution Two kit on the live testing page. We will move on soon to the logical extension of the Evolution Two kit and that is the inclusion of a dual radiator kit for higher levels of performance. September 16, 2005 Testing of the Evolution Two Kit is progressing on the Live Testing Page with the move to full load testing. The next stage will be to add a dual radiator to the kit and run the same testing.September 11, 2005 Today we have started live testing of the Evolution Two kit using the Radiical SRX water block for you Socket A users. Testing of the Evolution two kit in its standard form has already been completed so we have moved onto adding in a dual radiator into the system. This unit is being tested on the die simulator at present and will eventually make its way into live testing down the track. The current live testing can be found here.September 08, 2005 In preparation for the hotter Summer months we are introducing a new Evolution Series kit. We have named it Evolution Two. This kit marks our movement towards further miniaturization of our cooling kit range with greater involvement in the 10mm range of tubing. You will notice that the purchase price of this kit is more in line with our E Kit. We will be attempting to reduce the price of most of our kit products this year to encourage more people to enjoy the benefits of water cooling. As usual we will be trying to extract further performance from this kit with a larger radiator version in the coming months. Details of this new kit can be found here and on our kits page here.
September 06, 2005 The Radiical Acetal and Acrylic versions of the Laing pump head units are now out of testing and available for sale. The third port has been removed to reduce the machining costs and the inlet and outlet fittings are now nickel plated with a fitted 'O' ring to simplify installation and assembly. Right angled fittings for this head unit will remain as a brass finish until new stocks of nickel plated fittings become available. The new head units are located on the pumps page here.August 23, 2005 Thank you for the response to the new tops as a result we are currently running low on stock. The new Delrin top for the Laing DDC-12v pumps have arrived. The third port has been removed in this design to reduce production cost and "O" rings have been fitted to the barbs making fitting simpler. We will be testing the tops during the week before releasing them for sale.
August 22, 2005 Part three (the final part) of the Shuttle project has been posted in the Projects section hereAugust 21, 2005 Today we have some 10mm compression fittings for you small ID tubing kit users.
Other news is the inclusion of the water chiller project onto the web pages here. This first entry may have to be read following on from the material already posted here at OCAU August 19, 2005 The ResRad's are back in stock with the full colour range of Red, Black and Blue units.August 17, 2005 Today we introduce the Radiical pump stand for the Laing DDC-12v pump.The stand simplifies pump fitting where space is at a premium or limited fitting options are available. We used this stand in its prototype form when we worked on the Shuttle bare bones project. The results of testing in this project have led to certain changes in design which we are happy to say have worked out well. You can find the pump stand here.
August 13, 2005 We are introducing the Radiical Turbo Head© for the Laing DDC-12v pumps today. More details of this pump adaption can be found here.
August 06, 2005 Live testing of the WHX block will be continuing today at 1.55 volts. Die Simulator runs are already completed. We hope to release the Series Two shortly. The results have been very encouraging so we will be adapting the changes into CWX model blocks as soon as practical. For small kit users we have added some Eheim taps and quick connectors for 10mm ID tubing to the filling kits page here. August 05, 2005 Live Testing of the Series Two WHX block is continuing with a current overclock of 600Mhz. August 03, 2005 We will shortly be introducing Series Two of our WHX water block. There will be no exterior changes at this time so those of you who like a clear Acrylic top should not be disappointed. The major gains will be in increased performance at low flow rates and of course our usual non clog design. We will be posting early development results in the Live Testing section in the next few days. The other news will be the posting of our "Water Chiller" project on the Projects page. This will be ongoing so you may want to visit frequently to catch up on the latest developments. July 24, 2005 Today we introduce our "Evolution" series of water cooling kits with the Evolution One Kit. The kits content can be viewed here.We believe that this kit is a very solid performer. We continue to offer the upgradability in this kit that we have with all of our other water cooling kits.July 23, 2005 In response to the many e-mails about the 'E' Kit we will be running the test system at idle for several hours starting at 11 am local time. The testing will be no load as requested by many of you.July 19, 2005 Testing of the 'E' kit is now completed and the kit joins our other kits on the kits page. A brief FAQ on the 'E' kit is available here.July 08, 2005 We will be dropping back to Idle running for a few hours today to baseline before overclocking the modified 'E' Kit.July 07, 2005 Commenced testing upgrade pathway for 'E" Kit. First trial is fitting Radiical SRX block, using existent 10mm tubing,to replace the existent "E" Kit CPU block. Initial results show 4 degree drop in temperatures. Overclocking will commence when TIM joint has cured in two days.July 06, 2005 We have received new stock of the Radiical Ultra single pass triple radiators. After filling existing pre orders orders we have had to list this item as "limited stock" on the web page.July 05, 2005 Stock of the 7/16" Tygon tubing has finally arrived. Live testing of the AMD64 CPU is drawing to a close. Then next testing stage will be adding upgraded radiators and water blocks to the original kit to evaluate what upgrade options are available. June 30, 2005 We have started the final level of overclocking the AMD64 2800+ CPU. Today we have taken the CPU overclock to 400Mhz. Please check the Live testing notes section for further information.June 29, 2005 Overclocking of the 'E' Kit on the AMD CPU is in progress with a nominal 200 mhz overclock for the first trial.June 21, 2005 The live testing of the 'E' Kit has hit the 30 day continuous testing mark. This testing will go on until there is some change in the system status which could take a considerable time period. We are still waiting on delivery of the Tygon tubing. We expect this to arrive in the next few days when we will e-mail those persons who are keen to get this sized tubing for their water cooling systems. June 11, 2005 Winter time water cooling specials are now available with a reduction in the price of all of our water cooling kits. We have added the multi-plate to all our water blocks now that testing is completed. Live testing is continuing with the LGA water cooling kit reaching past the 21 day mark of 24/7 running. The ResRad should be out of testing in the next few days at which time we will start to sell this product and list it on the Reservoirs page. June 04, 2005 Live testing for the LGA775 Prescott has now passed fourteen days marker of 24 hours uptime. The AMD64 unit is "settling in" and we are now testing various fans and fan speeds. This testing should continue for another week. Please note that the AMD 64 unit is not set to test pump durability and only operates as a test bed for a number of hours per day. We anticipate that this unit will provide upgrade pathway data for future development of the "E" Kit.June 01, 2005 Testing of the "E" Kit will be focusing on performance increases with over clocking in the next few days. During this period we will be checking idle temperatures for a variety of overclock's using the LGA 775 Prescott CPU. We will be including a separate live testing page for you AMD 64 owners with the introduction of live testing on a socket 939 Winchester 2800+ CPU. Other news is the introduction of the multi-plate to our range of water blocks. The multi-plate extends the use of the WHX,CWX and SRX water blocks. The multi-plate is now included in the stock price of each block. You can check the new plate out here in our water blocks section. Testing of the ResRad is continuing with good results in temperature monitoring and corrosion resistance. We hope to conclude the testing in the next week so that this product can go on sale. We have added Arctic Silver Ceramique to our Thermal Paste section for those of you wanting a more rapid curing time for your TIM or for those using Peltiers where improved low temperature stability is required. May 26, 2005 May 20, 2005 We will be running live testing at idle for the next few hours from 12 midday Australian time. This will be carried out several times so please note the status bar at the bottom of the graphing to ascertain load at that time.May 19, 2005 Live testing has begun and can be accessed using the Live Testing button left of page. Over the course of the next week we will be debugging the system so data will be erratic. The data being presented at this time is temperature statistics on the sub $200.00 water cooling kit.May 18, 2005 The new product for today is a Resrad which as you can see from the picture is a hybrid variant on the radiator/reservoir. We will be testing this unit for a couple of weeks before it goes on sale.
So keep checking back for results. May 17, 2005 Added Tygon and Clearflex 5/16" tubing to tubing page.
The Radiical Ultra single pass triple fan radiators are almost sold out having arrived today. There are several units waiting contact from persons who have pre ordered. If there is no contact then these will be restocked and sold. If we have not contacted you and you did pre order please advise as soon as possible. There are some Dual pass triple radiators left out of this batch with no pre orders outstanding. Please use the contact button before paying with Pay Pal to ensure stock.
May 13, 2005 We have added the new Radiical single pass dual radiator to the radiators page. Pictured is the dual radiator with shrouds and fans fitted prior to testing.
May 12, 2005 The FluidXP has arrived and will be placed on the web page soon. Work is progressing on the Live testing page and after some proofing of the page the results should appear at the weekend.May 11, 2005 The new web page will be in place today all going well. It will take several days to debug the pages so please bear with us during this time. May 08, 2005 There will be a number of changes taking place on the web page in the next week or so. We have re organized the side bar to simplify access to our water cooling products and we have added a live testing facility so that you can checkout what products we are testing and how they are performing. Our first live testing will be our sub $200.00 water cooling kit. May 05, 2005 A new addition to our radiator range today with the inclusion of our 120 mm single pass radiator pictured here with 1/2" barbs fitted.
Here it is again in double pumped mode ready for testing.
Stay tuned for some results on this unit. The Sub $200.00 kits are testing well and we should be able to put them up on their own page shortly. April 30, 2005 The latest on the sub $200.00 is that we have now named it the "E" Kit. We have also managed to fit all the components that is VGA block, chipset block and CPU block to our Abit IG-80 board. Initial testing indicates that the unit is going to cope with this amount of heat even using the Nvidia 6600GT card. It is a bit of a hoot running such a small system so we are enjoying the testing of this unit. The upgrade pathway development so far is we have conversion ability to upgrade the pump and radiators to our stocked items. This means that the pump and radiators can be upgraded all the way up to the Ultra sized radiators and Eheim 1250 immediately. We will be getting in some small sized Tygon tubing which will probably help some of you folks who have requested we stock this item for your "other brand" small water kits. We will keep you posted on performance as the test results come in on our E Kit page which is currently under development. April 29, 2005 The pricing for the new "Ultra" triple radiators is on the Radiators page here. We have reduced the price of the complete range of radiators during our Autumn specials period. We have begun testing our sub $200.00 kit and will be making this available after we have fully evaluated not only the performance of this unit but also its adaptability to our other products. Consistent with out philosophy of providing an upgrade pathway for the water cooling kit we will be looking at radiator swap out and pump variations as part of the upgrade pathway. April 27, 2005 Here are the first pictures showing size comparisons between the Radiical Dual , the BA radiator and the new Radiical single pass triple radiator which we have named the "Ultra". We have added fans to the "Ultra" without shrouds having decided that a single piece shroud would be more cost effective than three individual shrouds. We will be working to produce a single shroud in the future.
From left to Right; Radiical Ultra Triple, Radiical Dual, BA Radiator As you can see from the picture the Ultra is very much the dominant force in total water cooling effectiveness. The picture (below) of the opposite side of the radiator shows our fill/empty tap.
Ultra with tap fitted We will be looking at dropping the price on our range of radiators in the next week or so which will be reflected in a drop in our kit prices. We are looking into a low cost entry level water cooling kit which can be upgraded in stages. The estimated cost, at this stage, is sub $200. Our plan is that this entry kit will have a high degree of compatibility with other water cooling components stocked by us. Keep posted to this page for updates. Other news today is the imminent arrival of Fluid XP. We have responded to the many e-mails regarding this product and the interest people have shown in trying out a waterless cooling system. I must admit that I will be interested in this products performance. April 26, 2005 The three fan radiators have arrived and we are currently working on mounting the radiator to the rear of the CM Stacker case. We will be fitting the new fill empty tap to the single pass radiator to gauge its effectiveness in emptying/filling the system. Pictures should be available shortly for those who have e-mailed asking for illustration of the size of this radiator. April 13, 2005 Added radiator shrouds for the Radiical range of radiators here. Two of these shrouds fitted to our Radiical Extreme radiator are pictured below.
April 12, 2005 The stand off kits have been added to the Radiators page here. March 12, 2005 Part Two of the Radiator Fitting guide is posted here. March 09, 2005 For all those persons who have contacted us regarding the Radiical Hard Drive Cooler there will be a delay in the production of this product. We will advise when stock will be available. We have added a Radiator Fitting Guide here for those interested in using our stand off kits. March 05, 2005 We have had a large amount of e-mail regarding our Shuttle project. One of the major interest points has been the stainless steel standoffs we used for the radiator in that project. In response to the various requests for such stand offs we are looking at providing kits to suit our radiators. It should then be no issue to fit even the "Extreme" sized radiators to the rear of the case. The results for the Shuttle case are underway following a major disagreement with the Shuttle bios which has now been resolved. We will be using our own implanted temperature probes to illustrate the vast difference between software and hardware temperature monitoring in the conclusion of this project. The SRX block is performing flawlessly at the low flow rates produced by the DDC-12v pump which are estimated to be < 4 liters per minute in this configuration. The use of an adaptor plate for this block now makes it one of our most versatile water cooling solutions. February 23, 2005 We are getting ready to release our Radiical hard drive cooler kits so for those of you who have contacted us about this product here is a look see at the finished work. The hard drive cooler will be available in 1/2" and 3/8" barb sizes to cater for all of the systems using these tubing sizes.
The Radiical Hard Drive Cooler is made from copper with brass barb fittings to ensure corrosion free operation for an extended period of time. This cooling unit is designed to fit the hard drive into a CD-ROM bay. Our in house testing indicates that this cooler has the capacity to cool more than one hard drive at the same time. The unit would be suitable for use with most of the pumps currently being used in water cooling systems even those with low rates of flow. The kit will include all fixing screws, stainless steel tubing clips and a short length of Clearflex tubing. February 20, 2005 The second part of the Radiical SRX and Shuttle Project is posted here. February 16, 2005 Part One of the Radiical SRX and Shuttle Project is posted here. February 15, 2005 The parts have finally arrived for the Shuttle project and we have started putting the cooling system together. There should be some early pictures on page one of the project tomorrow. I will add a news item here as soon as the page goes up. February 09, 2005 The work on the Shuttle project is online for commencement when all of the parts have arrived. This should be by early next week. Part One of the Project will look at the internal setup of the Shuttle case and the design process for installation of the cooling system. We have received a number of requests for components for this type of project and we are currently evaluating the product quality of the items to be used. Stay tuned. February 02, 2005 After completing the popular CM Stacker project we have decided to take a 360 degree turn for the next project. This time we intend to water cool a Shuttle XPC with an AMD64 3200 CPU.
The challenge here will be to water cool the power of an AMD64 then over clock the unit to provide very high performance as a gaming box. This will include the water cooling of the GPU as well as the CPU. We look forward to this project commencing in the next week or so. In the meantime we will advance the development of a specialized GPU block for use in this type of case where space is at a minimum. Other news is that we have almost completed our modifications to adapt the Radiical SRX water block for use with AMD64 and Intel LGA775. A further adaptor plate will be required for Intel P4 and AMD XP CPU's. This will be available shortly. January 27, 2005 The secure order form is now back online. January 27, 2005 The secure order form is down at present for adjustment. Please use the contact us button for your orders. January 19, 2005 The final part of our Radiical Ultra Extreme and CM Stacker project "Results" can be found here.
January 16, 2005 The three radiator review is completed and can be found here. PayPal can now operate in Australian Dollars. January 10, 2005 The Papst fans that we use in our water cooling kits are now available on the Fans Page here. The 3/8" ClearFlex tubing which is suitable for the newer 3/8" based pumps such as the MCP350 has arrived and is on the Pumps page here. The Radiical Ultra Extreme CM Stacker Project is now in its final stages with data collection nearing completion. The water block has now been mounted ten times to ensure accuracy of the final temperature readings. January 02, 2005 Happy New Year everyone.
Coming soon our full range of water cooling products will be available for systems using 3/8 inch tubing. This will be in addition to our existing range of water cooling products in 1/2 inch tube Customers will also be able to purchase hybrid components that mix and match tubing size so that both tube sizes can be used in the same system. Other news is that our hard drive cooler is nearing completion. More details on that product shortly. |
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