I have recently pruchased everything I need to set up a watercooling system (Thanks Paul!). My question is this: With a loop cooling two ATI 1900's and the CPU, would I need more than one rad (80mm I think)?
I have recently pruchased everything I need to set up a watercooling system (Thanks Paul!). My question is this: With a loop cooling two ATI 1900's and the CPU, would I need more than one rad (80mm I think)?
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i have no physical experience on water cooling but from what i learned i would say no. for my setup, once i get it, its gonna cool 8800GTX, and a CPU with a thermochill 120.3.
CPU: Q6600 G0 3.5GHz@1.4v (4.2GHz max) / 4790k 4.8ghz @1.265v
GPU: 9800GTX /GTX780 hydrocopper
Ram: Samsung 4GB /gskill 16gb DDR3 1600
Mobo: EVGA-NF68-A1 680i (P32) /AsRock Extreme6
PSU: Enermax Galaxy 850Watt /EVGA 850 G2
HDD: OCZ 120GB Vertex4, Samsung evo 840 250GB
LCD: Samsung 32" LN32A450, Samsung 226BW 22" wide
Sound: Logtiech Z 5500
CPU & GPU: 3x Swiftech MCR320, 2x MCP655, MCW60 R2, Dtek Fuzion V2, 18 high speed yates @ 5v
You might run a little hot in a dual gpu and cpu setup, but it shouldn't be anything horrific if you don't do massive OC & have a decent fan. I would suggest a 120mm rad at least, possibly 2x120 for that setup.
I would agree a dual 120 rad would be the best option but if you havent got room you could try fitting 2 seperate 120 rads.
id also put the rads like this, rad, pump, cpu, gpu, rad, gpu,and back, or for better consistency on both cards,rad pump cpu rad gpu gpu back
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I'm going to be using a single 120mm and a 80mm radiator to cool my C2D E6600 and ASUS 8800GTX.
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Okay, thanks for the tips!
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Like I told ya in the PM (this is more for the others), that radiator is a Dual Pass 120mm, much more efficient than say a single pass 120mm--it cools off a larger quantity of water at once, since the water stays in it longer.
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If you can fit it, get yourself a 120mm fan shroud. This helps remove the "shadow" air flow area caused by the stator rotor (center hub) of the fan by giving it a little distance from the rad, and causing more turbulence.
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