Water cooled setup

**Detale** · 02-09-2010, 02:28 AM

I am still unsure if I am going to do a dual loop or single loop with two pumps. This build I plan on cooling the CPU Vid card and Ram I have the 2 rads the 3.120 and a 1.120. Do you think I could cool all 3 with 1 rad? If so I could save some headache.

**clocker** · 02-09-2010, 03:11 AM

Yeah, this thing started out way too complicated...make it as simple as you can.

BTW, clocker can't decide if he's insulted or flattered by the "clocker mod".
Leaning towards "weirded out" ATM but that could change.

**Detale** · 02-09-2010, 03:16 AM

LOL, I basically lifted your HDD cage idea bud. You gave me the idea ages ago. What is the "Simple" you speak of?

**clocker** · 02-09-2010, 03:27 AM

One pump, one rad, one reservoir.

Add a maraschino cherry and you have the perfect Manhattan.

Wait...

**Detale** · 02-09-2010, 02:58 PM

Think you may be right bud...again. Damn don't you get tired of that?

**clocker** · 02-09-2010, 03:54 PM

No.

**Detale** · 02-09-2010, 06:20 PM

Damn your genius, damn it to hell!

I think I am still going to try and sneak in a 2nd pump in the middle of the line though. Initial reports are suggesting that it may help a bit.

**clocker** · 02-10-2010, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by Detale

I think I am still going to try and sneak in a 2nd pump in the middle of the line though. Initial reports are suggesting that it may help a bit.

Ok, that's a valid experiment.
To make it work though you have to start with one pump, gather data to set a baseline then add the second pump.

Otherwise your opinion about double pumps will only rise to a "suggestion", subject to debate.

Just to make all this even more interesting, what kind of target temps have you set?
If one pump gets you "X" temp, how much lower does the second pump have to pull down the heat to justify the extra complexity/expense?

**Detale** · 02-10-2010, 05:16 PM

No need for me to expeiment. Over at XtremeSys they have been talking about this for a while.Apparently against what I believe it does in fact work out better. Like I said it makes no sense to me whatsoever but I trust the guy Skinnee and his Lab tests. He did a great rad comparison as well.

As far as the extra complexity you know I love it complicated and the expense doesn't really count as I have the pump already