ok basically i am thinking of designing some waterblocks for avalon so i need some information regarding the design, pictures, heat output etc
1. any recommendations for free/cheap cadcam software? for newbie here. must output industry common file types.
2. how much of the energy it uses is given off as heat? eg if it consumes 700w (power meter), how much heat is given off? this is for me to estimate how much radiator space (in terms of 120mm fan) i need.
3. need detailed pics of batch 2 and 3 ( i have a batch 1 so i can look at it again and again)
1. Free/cheap is not analogous to viable for thermal sims. Solidworks is the route to go. Talk to a student friend if necessary, pricing is reasonable for an individual. OpenFOAM is a pretty good flow simulator and free, however you'll have to extrapolate junction temperatures from the flow simulations into your working fluid. There are a number of ways to import DXF's from Solidworks to OpenFOAM.
2. As stated in another post, all of the power goes to heat minus an infinitesimal amount, not worth measuring.
Its a lot of work to model (correctly) thermal properties of systems. Perhaps you can heuristically determine parameters by purchasing the 10/$20 chinese waterblocks off of ebay, a thermocouple at the heat source (between chip and block), input and output, and experimenting with flow rates.