Water & Airflow Advice needed

Marcofella · 8 Jul 2015 at 00:17

Ok, i've just finished designing my loop and air flow. I just wanted to make sure I was heading in the right direction.

Is the fan set-up ok and also the water flow.

Disco_P · 8 Jul 2015 at 00:38

We would need to know full loop spec to detemine whether waterflow will be fine. It probably will be though.

Airflow looks negative though, might be worth flipping the rear fan around or changing the bottom rad to intake.

Marcofella · 8 Jul 2015 at 01:01

Koolance RP-401X2 Single 5.25 Reservoir for 1-2 PMP-400 Pumps
XSPC / Laing DDC-1T Plus Ultra 3.2 (18W) - MOTOR
EK Supremacy MX (CPU Waterblock)
EK-Thermosphere – Nickel (GPU Waterblock)
EK-RAM Monarch x2 Nickel (RAM Waterblock)
EK-RAM Monarch black plates
2 x Magicool G2 Slim Radiator 16 FPI - 240mm
4 x EK-Vardar F2-120 (1450rpm) Radiator fans

NMBlack · 8 Jul 2015 at 10:50

Loop flow is fine, but you should change the direction of the bottom rad fans to act as intakes rather than exhausts (to increase positive pressure).

Marcofella · 8 Jul 2015 at 14:42

Cheers for the advice. Think i'll swap the rear fan direction. That should sort it.

pastymuncher · 8 Jul 2015 at 20:29

Leave the rear as exhaust and swap the bottom rad to intake. If you have it as a exhaust the warm air is only going to be sucked back in by the psu and front fans.

Marcofella · 8 Jul 2015 at 20:57

pastymuncher said:
Leave the rear as exhaust and swap the bottom rad to intake. If you have it as a exhaust the warm air is only going to be sucked back in by the psu and front fans.

That makes total sense. I can see exactly what you mean. Cheers for that :-)

russell664 · 10 Jul 2015 at 15:23

Yeah, change the bottom fans, my previous setup was exactly like that and dust was a real problem overall.

Marcofella · 11 Jul 2015 at 16:59

I'm a bit of a de-dusting fanatic! I do it all the time. Always keep a can of compressed air handy.

Starting my loop tomorrow. Getting a little giddy!

MrMD · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:02

Good luck!

Lookin at your diagram,would you not be better swapping the top rad round,so the fittings are on the righthand side rather than the left,for a cleaner look with your tubing?

Or is the diagram to scale and would be too tight a bend?

tamzzy · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:16

why not just put the bottom rad in the front as intake, and top rad as intake and forget about using the bottom mounts?

also, why ram blocks? (they dont add much performance-wise, and cooling-wise. ie just a waste of money)

Marcofella · 11 Jul 2015 at 20:59

MrMD said:
Good luck!

Lookin at your diagram,would you not be better swapping the top rad round,so the fittings are on the righthand side rather than the left,for a cleaner look with your tubing?

Thank you for that. That is so obvious, how i didn't see that before, i don't know

Plus that's given me a great idea, cheers

tamzzy said:
also, why ram blocks? (they dont add much performance-wise, and cooling-wise. ie just a waste of money)

Purely aesthetics tbh. Once you factor in the fittings, ram plates and of course the actual block, it only added an extra £80 to my build! For me it isn't just about the cooling/overclocking. Plus I would have only regretted it later, and i would hate to have to open it up so soon.

Once it's done, i will be posting up some images

tamzzy · 11 Jul 2015 at 21:40

haha..why not then ;p