Water Cooling Advise

[mDust]

Koolance nickel plates their water-blocks which prevents galvanic corrosion...that's why it's fine for them to mix metals.
That Exos-2 V2 will work with a plated copper block, otherwise, a copper-core rad is necessary to keep the APOGEE XT.

[Canadian Psycho]

Alright, heres a question, does anyone here has experience with stacking rads in a sandwich style? Im thinkin ditch the single, grab another triple rad and sandwich them on the top of the case, one inside, one out, with 3 fans on the bottom of the stack, then 3 in between then loop them together?

Or should I do that but keep the single to give the coolant some cooling after the CPU but before the GPUs?

[Trace]

As previously mentioned (too lazy to read through the thread, I think it was mentioned here,) the water will be within a few *C at all points in the loop.

[x88x]

Sandwiching works, just make sure you have powerful fans on each level. Also, if you run them in parallel, make sure that they're both rads designed to be run in parallel, otherwise you might not get optimal flow through both.

[Kayin]

That was my block pics, by the way.

http://www.swiftnets.com/ There's instructions on how to run stackable radiators. I would run a stack internally and at least one extra 3x120 externally, possibly another stack there as well.

The issue at hand is the sheer heat dump of the setup at hand, which easily exceeds even the hottest of systems I have assembled (i7 860/2 HD4870x2) when both are at full load.

Alternatively, if you're looking for mostly quiet, and great temps, you could pony up for a Hailea chiller, forget the rads and res, just run blocks a pump, and tubing and plug the chiller into the loop for the rads. It's an expensive solution, but it'll get you temps nothing else will.

[Luke122]

See? I told you these guys know their stuff.

I'm stoked to help build this monster!

[Oneslowz28]

That was your block kayin? Please post those pics again. Maybe we should start a WC FAIL thread and post pics of clogged blocks from Fesser fluid, galvonic corrosion from mixed metals and the damage from reusing worn tubing.

As for stacking rads, It will work fine as long as you have the airflow to back it.

[Kayin]

There wasn't really an aluminum top left to shoot. Those are gold plated, BTW, and will never work right again. Be wise, kids.

[Spawn-Inc]

Koolance nickel plates their water-blocks which prevents galvanic corrosion...that's why it's fine for them to mix metals.
That Exos-2 V2 will work with a plated copper block, otherwise, a copper-core rad is necessary to keep the APOGEE XT.

if there is any size scratch in the plating, it will corrode the same with out. there is a reason why koolance has smartened up and stopped making aluminum rads. they still sell the stupid exos, but they are even starting to fix that, starting with their ERM 2K3U as posted above. though they still enjoy fudging there numbers to make it look better.

There wasn't really an aluminum top left to shoot. Those are gold plated, BTW, and will never work right again. Be wise, kids.

nice, though i did send Oneslowz some other pics of a koolance block that had a hole in the side of it.

[Oneslowz28]

I had not seen those pics Kayin. That does put a second X on my Koolance Score Card though.

The block that I was talking about was sent to me by spawn. The Nickel coating had been scratched and a whole had been eaten clean through the side of the block and water flowed out like a waterfall.