Two rads would cool better, you just need room to mount them.
Two rads would cool better, you just need room to mount them.
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@ Spawn....If you go from your rad to your pump you will have to deal with the pump dumping heat into the loop. The pump may only dump a marginal amount but my the time you add all the marginal amounts together you get larger amounts that isnt really needed. I dont like cooling the water until it go into the CPU water block....anything else and the water may be increasing in temp. Remember with standard water cooling the best you can hope for in ambient temps , the inside of the case is hotter than that and if after the water is kooled by the rad it floats around in a res or goes through the pump it will only increase ....I have found a small gain from keeping the rad OUT of the TOP of the case also. I personally like to mount my 120.3 on TOP of the case and my 120.1 is mounted inside drawing air from outside of the case. The 120.1 is also the FIRST rad in my loop. the water exits the pump and travels there gets kooled a little then it goes to the 120.3 and using as short as a hose that I can it goes to the CPU...then down the MOBO to the various other parts
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You could do a dual-dual setup.. In other words, two seperate
systems.. That's what i did with my system..
I have a Swiftech MCP350 pump-Antartica CPU Block-
BIack ice II 240 Rad-Thermaltake 5 1/4 bay res back to pump.
Then I have a Waterchill Extreme pump-Chipset Block-120 Rad back to pump..
You could do something like that.. One complete setup for the
Video Cards, on for just the CPU.. BOTH would run cooler then.. I have those
SilentX fans and they move a good amount of air and are very quiet..
Just a thought..
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Yeah duel loops are good, you just have to make sure your pump can handle it. There is also the fact that a lot more tubing will be in your system.
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That is true.. But i thought i saw he has a Lian-Li
V2000.. that case is huge! I ordered the same one.. lol
Oh and my dual has two pumps. so no problems
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Good point about the case, must have missed it. Yeah if i ever did duel looks it would be using two separate pumps.
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New Q for all of you.
I'd just like to know the mobility of a watercooled system. If everything is tightened up and secure, I shouldn't have any problems taking it to the occasional LAN, right? That'd be a big deciding factor on if I'm watercooling still.
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I hope it is ok, that's what I intend to do with mine. If everything is all done up tightly there shouldn't be a problem (correct me if I'm wrong guys). You could always drain the coolant and when you get to the LAN re-fill it, but that's a lot of stuffing around.
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i'd sooner worry about having a sonic tower in my case than water cooling. i would say so long as everything is bolted down (res) and tight then i wouldn't worry about it.
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That's what I thought. No leaks, no problem.
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