Best CPU waterblock?

shadowscotland said:
That's the XSPC Edge V2 - even says so in the title of the link you provided :p
aka Acetal version

Not seen any photo's of the delta V3 yet
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Well it's listed as the Delta V3 CPU on the XSPC UK website!

Better tell them they got it wrong! :p


 
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Just get any of the blocks stated within this thread, they are all decent. I'm using the V2 here. It's very pretty :P
 
Are two pumps in series dangerous... or can it ever become dangerous with pumping the liquid too fast? Sorry for the n00b question. lol

But what are the benefits? Surely your limited by the barb size as it will restrict the flow no matter how fast/hard you pump the water? :o
 
Firegod said:
Are two pumps in series dangerous... or can it ever become dangerous with pumping the liquid too fast? Sorry for the n00b question. lol

But what are the benefits? Surely your limited by the barb size as it will restrict the flow no matter how fast/hard you pump the water? :o
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There will be an increase in both the flow rate around the loop and all waterblocks benefit from better flow rate and pressure. However the more pumps you add the more heat that gets dumped into the loop from them, and there comes a point whereby the heat dumped into the loop outweighs the advantages of greater flow/pressure.

Also the most powerful pump that can easily be used in a water cooling loop is the Iwaki RD-30, however it does require an separate PSU to power it.

tbh I'm doubtful as to how much better the cuplex block would perform with an additional D5, I doubt the gains would be any more than 1c improvement, which bearing in mind that the fuzion, supreme and the gtz all perform about 1c better than the cuplex it'd be a bit of a waste.
 
If i was to use a 1000 watt psu would i still need a second psu to power it? Could i not just add it to the 1000 watt psu?
 
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^TANK^ said:
If i was to use a 1000 watt psu would i still need a second psu to power it?
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It's a 24 volt pump, and I don't think that psuws have any connectors that can supply that voltage (I think you'd be limited to a 12v molex - although I'm not sure), they can be run on less however. Some people claim that they get bettter performance by running the pump at 18v due to the reduced heat dump - but that's still more than you're psu can supply. IIRC people often use meanwell PSU's to power the, but they can cost around £100 (and the pump is also around that mark or more).

Tbh I'd reccomed just using standard D5s/DDCs with the cuplex as the amount of cash required to get the 1-2c drop in temps is not really worth it, you'd proberbly get better temps just by buying a bigger/adding more rads to your loop (and that'd be cheaper too).
 
^TANK^ said:
Do you think I will get away with a 18W Laing DDC ?
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An 18w DDC would perform well (be at the point where more pumping power would have little effect) and be fairly straightforward to get working in your comp (no external PSUs etc, just a molex).

If you guy one just make sure you use an aftermarket top with it that has the inlet on the top (like the xspc restop or ek ddc x top), as the stock position of the inlet severly degrades flowrates and pressure.
 
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