check out my water block!

[Idontcare]

So I can put a block on copper and I'd make my computer cooler?

More copper is not bad, just as more water volume in your loop is not bad.

Understand that fans and fins are not added to blocks of copper because they are superior to just having more copper, rather they are added because it is much cheaper to add fans and fins instead of adding more and more copper.

But you can add more copper and makes things worse the same as you can add more water and make things worse in your loop. There's always a way to bungle it up.

You have to do things right if you want them to turn out right, which normally goes without saying but around here it has to be said.

 

[Rubycon]

Gee where do we start?
You don't want to throw heat in your case. That's what air cooling and entry level coolers like Corsair H series do when installed as recommended.
The tubing is very small which will add significant restriction. When you put 1/2 kW of TE between your CPU and block the last thing you want is restriction. 1/2" ID MINIMUM throughout. Dual pumps required, or at the very least proof of flow in order to IMMEDIATELY shut down (as in kill power to system PSU). With CPU+TE power approaching 1kW you will have a hazardous condition in event of a leak or pump failure. Special consideration must be taken with larger TE as they need heavy conductors to function properly. A big power supply is required and its overload protection must function properly to avoid a hazard as well.

Proper regulation of TE current is also extremely important. It's very dynamic and to do this correctly and efficiently requires a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) scheme with a programmable startup anti-hysteresis cycle. Enthalpy monitoring requiring frequent calibration of fault tolerant capacitive hygrometric transducers is essential to keep the cores at lowest possible temperature without risk of condensation build up. One can omit this and shoot for the lowest possible temperatures without regard of varying wetbulb temps if they don't mind ruining their board by coating everything. It becomes a big conglomerated mess, however.

 

[SonicIce]

so its a water cooling setup where the radiator is hovering over the cpu instead of being outside the case. strange

 

[WoodButcher]

It may look impressive but thats it. Waterblocks today need only enough metal to keep the contact plate rigid, less is better because you want the water to take the heat away. Thermaltakes old blocks really are a joke along with the tubular radiators like what is mounted on top of that block.

I'm sorry you bought that expecting great temps, it may work but not as well as a new block made say after 2005 or so, hell, by almost any other company. Think about it, If TT were selling a good block back in '05 when that was made they would still be selling it. TT watercooling has always been subpar, entry level kits. I used them at first, then learned and did my homework. It is not as complicated as Ruby would make it seem, the copper can be thought of as a TIM bacause its job #1 is to move heat to the water, not store the heat. More copper = more stored heat. Next thing is flow, the ID of that tubing is less than 1/4",,,, Do we need to go to http://martinsliquidlab.org/pump-and-radiator-optimizer-spreadsheet/ to prove this?

I really am sorry you expected so much from this thing but that is how many of us learn. It is a big chunk of copper but the best value you'll get from that will be as a paperweight / conversation starter.

 

[Rubycon]

this block will cool a cpu better than most after market air coolers without even running water threw it.

I can assure you that it definitely would not. Idle temps do not count.