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RADIICAL NEWS 2006 |
December 22, 2006 The Delrin Turbo Head tops for the DDC Laing pumps have sold out. New stock should be in available in early January. December 19, 2006 For those of you who have emailed us about this pump the Alphacool AP1510 voltage adjustable pumps have arrived.
Stock of this item is very limited so to avoid disappointment you may wish to order early. These pumps are located on the pumps page here. December 18, 2006 Well its that time of year again and we are involved in the crazy rush to complete your orders so that they are arrive in time for the Christmas break. It will be some time before we have the opportunity to thank our many customers for their support during what has been a busy year. So, we wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and look forward to your patronage in the New Year. Limited numbers of the Delrin version of the Radiical Turbo head top have arrived in. We have completed the pre-orders from this stock so the balance are now available. Please be aware that at this time of year courier delivery will be disrupted due to the sheer volume of packages. We suggest that you do not delay your Christmas purchases and get your orders in earlier rather than later to avoid disappointment. December 15, 2006 Limited numbers of the Delrin Radiical Turbo Head top will be back in stock early next week. For those of you with pre orders we will contact you by email to confirm the product availability. December 13, 2006 We have added the 3/8" 'O' ringed barbs that many of you are requesting to the fittings page. December 10, 2006 We have changed the victim for our torture testing on the Danger Den Rack to one of Intel's very popular Core 2 duo E6400 CPU's. There will be a number of other products tests going on with the E6400 in place. We will be putting the new Maze 5, some "Team" ram and of course our own Turbo head pump top through the loops during the remaining "Summer" months. With reference to the current high ambient's we have also been monitoring the increased temperatures (50+ degrees) of our hard drives during the early part of our summer so we have decided to cross compare the impact of water cooling hard drives on overall system performance. Stay tuned for more about this later on. This Torture Testing will see the utilization of our SRX water block which is now emerging as a major player at high wattages on IHS covered CPU's. We hope to be able to evaluate this water block with a number of pump head pressures during the testing on the E6400 and later on with one of the hotter quad cores. Due to the high demand we are currently out of stock for the Delrin and Acrylic Turbo Head Tops for the DDC pump. We hope to have further supplies within the next week of the Delrin tops. November 15, 2006 Testing is now well advanced on the Hybrid block which we are now calling the WHX Hybrid just for identification purposes. We are now at heat loads above 240 Watts "simulating" for the hotter Quad cored CPU's. There will be a better idea of real world performance when our Beta testing is completed. We are aiming this water block to work with the Laing D5 range of pumps. Our own Radiical Turbo Head on an 18 Watt DDC pump is functioning just as well as the D5 pump at the test range of 240+ watts mentioned above. We will be continuing with the same anti clog internal structure so there will be the usual low to no internal maintenance required. November 05, 2006 Today we have posted the first in a series of projects using the Danger Den Torture Rack. Part One of this series, which deals with the initial construction of the Torture Rack, can be found here on the Projects page. Part two which should be posted shortly will deal with setting up the Rack for testing. The first test of the Torture Rack will involve using an Opteron CPU and a DFI mainboard. We will be using the Danger Den Torture Rack for a number of projects in the next few months so they will be added to the Projects page as they occur. November 02, 2006 The Maze 5 GPU block from Danger Den is released today. Danger Den claim a greater than 100% increased surface area for significantly improved heat transfer with the new Maze 5 GPU block. The new block can be found here.
November 01, 2006 Today we have the new Danger Den GPU block suitable for 7950 GX2 video cards here on the blocks page.
We have also received the new Torture Rack so you better hustle Igor into the dungeons. In a couple of days we should have a mini review of what we hope will be a very adaptable upgrade to those motherboard cartons that are so commonly used to test out new computer equipment.
October 28, 2006 We have added the results of the flow rate testing of the Colder NS6 non drip couplings to the FAQ page here. October 24, 2006 Just a heads up to advise about the happenings in the next week or two. We will be doing some flow rate and pressure testing of the Colder Range of non drip shut off connectors suitable for 1/2" and 3/8" tubing sizes in the next few days. Other news is the imminent arrival and a mini review of the Danger Den DD-GX2 GPU block suitable for the 7950 GX2 cards.
We are also going to be putting one of Danger Den's Torture cases into operation when we do some overclocking on one of our test rigs so watch for the action review of that product. Final news item is to announce our new Hybrid CPU water block. We are well advanced on "in house" testing at this point. More news on this block after it comes back from the Beta testers. October 16, 2006 Today we are introducing our new Patent Pending Radiical Dual Head Pump Unit©. We have decided to use the CM Stacker Makeover Two project found here as the vehicle to introduce our dual loop water cooling system development. Hope you enjoy our new project. October 07, 2006 Following on from a considerable amount of interest in the Big Water Project we did some time ago we have now moved the project to the projects page here. October 05, 2006 Live testing of the Radiical Triple Ultra kit has now started on the live testing page. Testing will be public for two days. We will be using fan speeds of five and twelve volts during this phase of testing October 03, 2006 We will be starting live testing of the Triple Ultra kit in the next few days using our new pump head. More details of this will be available shortly. Early testing results are very encouraging. We will also be trying out hourly ambient readings so the delta temperatures are reported to the viewer more accurately than using the current Weather Channel information which is very slow to update. As usual we will be looking at providing idle and full load comparisons to the viewer.
September 08, 2006 With the changeover to the new ISP almost completed we are finally coming back on line. With the arrival of Spring it is time to get the cobwebs out of your cooling system with a radiator clean and perhaps that overdue system flush and refill. We pulled down our "dirty water" system which we use to test anti-clogging on our blocks recently to check the condition inside the all important CPU block. Just to provide some sort of background information this system has been running with an open topped reservoir since February of 2004. This is what we found.
August 31, 2006 We will be moving to a new ISP in the next few days so mail services may be temporarily disrupted while provisioning takes place. If you need to contact us try email first then the phone. August 30, 2006 We have made a minor adjustment to the GPU fitting FAQ here. This brings this FAQ up to date for GPU block fitting. August 28, 2006 Today we have more stock of our hard drive coolers available. These hard drive coolers can be found here. A mini FAQ relating to the hard drive coolers is here. August 27, 2006 The SRX and Shuttle makeover is completed and can be found here on the Projects page. In this makeover we have used the smaller version of our Radiical Three Port Radiator© and added graphics card cooling to the original Shuttle project. August 25, 2006 Today we are introducing our Patent Pending Radiical Three Port Radiator© and Bleeder Wick©. We have also added a FAQ which should go some way towards explaining the functions of this radiator. In addition we are introducing our Bleeder Wick© ancillary air bleeding device which is used concurrently with the Three Port Radiator©. To illustrate the application of the Three Port Radiator© and Bleeder Wick© we have carried out a makeover of our original CM Stacker case using the new products here. We are currently completing a makeover of our earlier Shuttle project using a variant of the Three Port Radiator©. We will post this when it is completed. August 10, 2006 We have started reviewing the water cooling kits in preparation for the warmer months. Today we have completed the Radiical WHX Extreme D5 kit with chipset and GPU block versions. This kit can now be viewed here. August 03, 2006 Today we introduce the new and improved Laing D5 pump to the pumps page. This is the newest version of this pump and is capable of a reported 1500 l/h and 3.7M pump head. We are currently reviewing our water cooling kits for the hotter months of the year. We look forward to offering the new Laing D5 pump in that line up. More information on that in the next few days. July 18, 2006 Following on from a number of requests we have added some replacement 1/4" ID tubing to the Tubing section. This tubing is suitable for tubing replacement of small bore kits such as Bigwater and others using 1/4" ID tubing.
We also have in stock Black Tygon R-3400 in 7/16"ID 1/16" wall size.
July 15, 2006 We have added to the Radiical Turbo Head FAQ and moved it to the Guides section of the web page. If there are any additional questions we will add the answers to the fitting guide for the Radiical Turbo Head Top as needed. July 03, 2006 Added some handy tubing clamps to the tubing page here.
Added 5/16" ID Black Tygon to the Tubing page here.
June 30, 2006 New stock of the 18 W Laing DDC-12 plus pumps have arrived in. These can be found on our pumps page. June 28, 2006 Today we have the Radiical Turbo Head fitting guide in our FAQ section here. This FAQ is important reading if you are awaiting the arrival of your Turbo Head pump top. The FAQ also contains some timely warnings for those of you who are using Teflon tape with thin walled, high flow barb fittings on your equipment. June 23, 2006 The new Revision 2 of the Radiical Turbo Head is now in stock with a slight increase in performance over the previous version. For those of you who have pre ordered we will be contacting you in the next few days. June 16, 2006 The updated Radiical Turbo Head is currently in the manufacturing phase and is on target for release within two weeks. For all of you who emailed regarding pre ordering we will be contacting you as soon as the tops are available. Today we are releasing the Radiical Filler/Bleeder port. This can be found on our fittings page here. June 09, 2006 Just an update on the new revision of the Radiical Turbo Head. The review of the Radiical Turbo Head has been completed and we should have the new revision available within a couple of weeks. The flow rate testing that we have completed indicates no loss of performance from the changes that have been made. Those of you who have already ordered the new top have been placed on the back orders list and will be contacted closer to the date or release. June 05, 2006 We are taking the opportunity to review the Radiical Turbo Head at this time. We are of the opinion that there is further performance potential possible. There will be a delay of several weeks while this review is undertaken before new stocks will be available. At present we are also developing a dual pump head attachment to permit the use of two Laing DDC 12v pumps together. We will also be extending the range of pump adaptors for the Laing DDC pump in the next few months to include our own top mount reservoir fitting for the Laing DDC pumps. We will be including in the design anti foam measures to assist bleeding of the air from the reservoir and to reduce vortex affect in the system. May 19, 2006 Today we are introducing our new GPU water block. We have prepared a fitting guide FAQ here to assist with any questions about the block. The new water block can be found on our blocks page here. May 18, 2006 Today we have a product for the budding DIY water block designers out there. We will be producing a small numbers of DIY water block kits . More details are given here. May 10, 2006 We now have limited stock of the Alphacool Pump tops and reservoirs. These pump tops and reservoirs are suitable for the Laing DDC series of pumps and can be found on the pump page here. May 08, 2006 For those of you who have asked for the small kit conversion project we have completed it here. We will be getting in further conversion fittings shortly for small kit conversions so check back on our fittings page in the next few weeks. Please use the contact page to email for further pricing information and discuss your conversion requirements. April 26, 2006 The new 18 W DDC-1 Plus T 12volt pumps have arrived in from Alphacool. We have been testing these out with our Turbo head for some time now. The results are a very pleasant increase in all round performance for what was already a very useful pump. We also got a Goliath Alphacool AP1510 12 volt pump in for testing. This pump pictured below is capable of up to 1500l/h at 6M head for a measly 17 Watts power consumption.
Power can be varied to alter flow rate using the supplied voltage controller. More about this pump when we have had time to run it in a test setup. We should be able to include the Alphacool Ultra pump tops and reservoirs for the new DCC 12v pumps to the pumps page soon. April 25, 2006 "Lest We Forget" April 14, 2006 Testing of the barb sizes for the Eheim 1046 12volt pumps is now completed and the pumps are now available on the pumps page. While we were testing the barbs we decided to evaluate an impeller modification for this pump. We fitted the Eheim 1048 impeller to one of the 1046 12 volt pumps. As a result of this modification we were able to raise the pump output from 300l/h to close to 600 l/h. We are very pleased with the impeller modification trials and will now check what affect this modification has on the life of these pumps.April 05, 2006 The Alphacool pumps are now available on our pumps page. We have available the Compact 600 in 12 volts to suit low to midrange flow rate systems. We also have available a kit form of the pump station which can be used with the mains versions of the Eheim Compact series both 600l/h and the larger 1000l/h pumps. This pump can be set up with any of the usual sized barbs for tubing ranging from 8 mm ID to 12 mm ID. Progression to 1/4" ID tubing is also possible at special request. These units will be very useful as replacement pumps for the small kits. We have also brought in the 12 volt version of the Eheim 1046 which is currently completing barb resizing tests. This pump should be available in about a weeks time. Final news for today is the arrival of the new Laing DDC 12v with 600l/h performance at a rated head of up to 4.7M. Of course we couldn't wait to bolt on our Turbo head and give the Laing a run. We currently have 675 l/h performance from this pump using 1/2" fittings. April 04, 2006 The Tribal Conversion Results are posted here. April 03, 2005 Today we wind up live testing of the Tribal Conversion. For the last day of testing we have included or prototype GPU block fitted to a Nvidia 7600GT card for this test series. Results for this project should be available shortly. March 31, 2006 The Radiical Cubed Project the "Tribal Conversion" goes onto live testing to day after die simulation results were completed. We will be sharing these results for the "Tribal Conversion" for a period of several days before moving into private testing March 27, 2006 Our new project the Radiical Cubed ........Tribal Conversion is now posted here.
March 22, 2006 Today we will be live testing the 7/16" tubing version of the triple radiator kit. March 19, 2006 We are completing the testing of the 8 mm ID triple radiator kit at present and should be able to release that in the next week or so. Work is well underway on the popular 7/16" tubing version of this kit so both units could possibly be released at the same time. Finalization of these kits will coincide with the introduction of a specialized triple radiator version of the water block and the new pumps. The new GPU block which will suit ATI and some Nvidia cards will occur in a weeks time. We are currently winding up our testing of these units and we are very happy with the development progress so far. March 17, 2006 Live testing continues today with the mid range pump in operation and by the looks of the latest temperature figures the TIM is curing down. The CPU has been over clocked to 3.6Ghz and with the Maze 4 GPU block in place the performance is being evaluated. We may use the current configuration test results to evaluate our soon to be released GPU block. More on that later. Just extending the performance question for a moment. We get a lot of email asking us about replacement blocks for other systems. The typical question addresses if we can supply a block that will fit most CPU types and what will be the resultant performance. To go some way to wards answering that question here is the review of the current Evolution Series water block. March 16, 2006 Live testing of the triple kit is in the final stages of over clocked load testing using a low range pump. The testing will move on next to mid range flow rated pumps.March 11, 2006 We have decided to put together our own inline digital thermometers. The inline units are suitable for 5/16"- 3/8" tubing. These have now been added to our Monitoring page.
First live testing of the triple radiator version of the Evolution Two kit has commenced on the live testing page. The initial results indicate a clear three degree improvement over the dual radiator version. Testing will be intermittent during the next week as we complete our own tests. March 10, 2006 We are running some baseline testing on the Live testing page of the Evolution Two extreme kit before we start live testing the triple radiator kit. Live testing of the triple radiator kit should take place after we have fitted the new radiator and the TIM maturity has taken place.March 03, 2006 Today we have added additional sizes of ClearFlex and MasterKleer tubing to our tubing products range here. We are now also able to introduce a 3/8" tubing variation of the Evolution Series of kits. We are currently testing this Evolution Three variation in our triple radiator water cooling kit and the results are very promising.March 01, 2006 We have our chipset block now available. It can be found here.
More information about this product is available here.
Testing is nearing completion on the triple radiator kit. We will now include the chipset and GPU blocks into the test system to confirm performance for a CPU,GPU and Chipset triple radiator kit. Sli kit performance with the Maze4 Sli kit will also be tested. February 25, 2006 First item for today is our new hard drive cooler. More details can be found here. Or on our blocks page here.
February 24, 2006 New stock of the Triple dual pass radiators has arrived.February 23, 2006 We have added some of the requested fittings to the Fittings page. These include the new nickel plated range of fittings. We will be adding more nickel plated fittings as they become available.February 12, 2006 The new range of Radiical triple radiator kits will be available soon. We will be making further announcements closer to the release date.February 09, 2006 Tomorrow we will be completing this series of live testing on the Evolution Three Kit with the overclocking trials. The current plan is to overclock the Opteron to 2.6Ghz and run live testing of the idle and full load temperatures.February 08, 2006 Live testing of the Evolution Three kit is in progress on the Live Testing page. The Evolution One kit has been revamped with a new price marker here. February 07, 2006 Added the Maze 4 Sli dual water block kit to the blocks page here. Work on isolating out the DFI temperature probe issues have been sorted out for a test run tomorrow on the live testing page. The Evolution Three kit will be the kit under test. Initial runs will be at stock values following a new water block mount. Other details will be on the respective page. February 02, 2006 A new radiator color for our popular dual pass radiator is today's first news offering. The major difference is the all black color panels and the addition of nickel plated barbs. The color change does not effect performance.
The companion cooler design is moving along nicely and we should be able to preview some additional changes shortly. The Evolution Three kit is in full testing mode using the Opteron 144 CPU as mentioned previously however the DFI boards reported temperatures are to impossibly low for us to display on the Web Temp live testing page at this stage. We will attempt to isolate out the temperature issue before posting the Web Temp data. We have been searching our hard drive stock for a suitably hot running hard drive so that we can publish a mini review of the hard drive cooler when it arrives. We have been successful in finding a temperature verified hard drive pushing the temperature to fifty+ degrees Celsius. That is not a typo by the way. January 23, 2006 For those of you who have emailed we now have FluidXP back in stock.January 21, 2006 We are finally all back from holidays and on target after the New Years activities. So far we have begun the build up to several new projects. Although we anticipate some time will occur before we can get to results for these projects here is a taste of our first development.
We began with a rather well used empty Shuttle case and installed the equivalent of a full dual radiator setup including pump etc. Now it is usual for water coolers to install their cooling inside a functional computer but we decided to use up this dysfunctional Shuttle case and bring it back on line as a companion cooler. Some people like to refer to these units as rad boxes but we think we are taking the principle to a new level here. There will be more of this project later on. Happenings for mid February at this stage is the introduction of our own chipset and hard drive cooler so keep tuned. The Evolution Three kit is in full testing mode using a souped up "Oppy" (Opteron) CPU at present so that will be put up on live testing in a weeks time for you all to follow. The main project for this first half of the year will be revealed in March for all of you gamers out there. January 11, 2006 The results from our testing of the Potted Eheim are posted on the Projects page.January 01, 2006 We here at Radiical would like to take this opportunity of wishing all of you a very happy new year. Despite the Christmas break we have been busy preparing for what will be an exciting year in our history. This year we hope to bring more products to our specialized water cooling range. Just some of the projects planned for this year will be the development of a fully automatic cooling control system using the Mcubed Tban, there will be further development of our water chiller to product application testing on our test units and the additional development of our 12 volt pump range including an external water tower for a 12 volt pump. Work is almost completed on the conversion of the Evolution series of water cooling kits to 1/2" tubing. We will be naming this converted kit the Evolution Three series. Work is well underway on testing out the performance of this kit on our test units here at Radiical. We will be extending the flow rate trials to include the fitting of single and dual GPU blocks to this kit. We hope to release this kit for sale in the early part of January. You can view the kit contents here. We have now received the Danger Den Aqua-Drive "dual hard drive" cooler. We hope to have a mini preview of the features and benefits of this product in the near future. The Aqua-drive can be found here.
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