External Rad Question

teejay73 said:
Ahh mate tell me about it! I started years ago with dual 360 Monsta rads that are still in the garage somewhere. I'm loathed to get rid of the distroplate, as that was over £300, but I'm bored of that now, and ideally want to downsize in the future to a sff, but to do that means to go with an external set up if I want to keep my rig under water. I have noted the other place, and I agree about the Aquacomputer one - lovely, but pricey!
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If you're downsizing anyway then this is definitely the right path to go about it. I made the transition years ago and have never gone back. I just find the whole build process much cleaner and easier now and the Rad and pump is always there ready to go, just connect them up and bam you're up and running.

I love how there is zero faff.
 
And if your multi volt supply if you want to try it
Doesn't come with the tip mentioned
You can buy female barrel jack adapters
They have the 2 terminals to screw wires into
Got a bag of them somewhere
From when I was messing around fitting under cupboard leds
And wanted to extend wires where there weren't
Any available sockets
And to extend some of my cctv wires as well
 
Jay85 said:
If you're downsizing anyway then this is definitely the right path to go about it. I made the transition years ago and have never gone back. I just find the whole build process much cleaner and easier now and the Rad and pump is always there ready to go, just connect them up and bam you're up and running.

I love how there is zero faff.
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Yeah I def want to downsize, but right now it creates a problem, as I've not long bought a new PSU...The rather large, and costly ROG Thor II 1000w - at the time I didn't give it a second thought that I'd be wanting to downsize. I use my system for both gaming and as a workstation too, so I'm having to figure out pro's and cons of how I intergrate 8tb's of NVME drives into a sff build (will probaly be thunderbolt external solutions), as well as the PSU situation, and then of course how I go about cooling the system, as there is no way I'll be doing it on air. I'm probably earmarking a £2k spend once I factor in a new cpu/mobo/ram as well. However, the prospect of going external seems like a no brainer if I want to downsize.
 
teejay73 said:
Yeah I def want to downsize, but right now it creates a problem, as I've not long bought a new PSU...The rather large, and costly ROG Thor II 1000w - at the time I didn't give it a second thought that I'd be wanting to downsize. I use my system for both gaming and as a workstation too, so I'm having to figure out pro's and cons of how I intergrate 8tb's of NVME drives into a sff build (will probaly be thunderbolt external solutions), as well as the PSU situation, and then of course how I go about cooling the system, as there is no way I'll be doing it on air. I'm probably earmarking a £2k spend once I factor in a new cpu/mobo/ram as well. However, the prospect of going external seems like a no brainer if I want to downsize.
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Ah yeah rather expensive... i mean if you're still within your return period :cry:. The Asus Loki 1000w is a good psu, i have the 850w version and having run it now, its not exhibiting anymore coilwhine.

My first 2 samples all had really bad coil whine which were all returned unfortunately.
 
Jay85 said:
Ah yeah rather expensive... i mean if you're still within your return period :cry:. The Asus Loki 1000w is a good psu, i have the 850w version and having run it now, its not exhibiting anymore coilwhine.

My first 2 samples all had really bad coil whine which were all returned unfortunately.
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Err yeah, about 14 months out :cry:. Is coil whine a issue with the Loki then, or were you just unlucky? I'd personally go for at least 1000w as I'm just a little OCD on having overhead on my PSU.
 
About to do this as well... worried I'll have to add another D5 (I have one but I prefer to keep using my leakshield which is 1 D5 only)
 
xybp9 said:
About to do this as well... worried I'll have to add another D5 (I have one but I prefer to keep using my leakshield which is 1 D5 only)
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What external set up are you planning on using? I'm probably going to go with two D5's if anything at least for redundancy.
 
teejay73 said:
Err yeah, about 14 months out :cry:. Is coil whine a issue with the Loki then, or were you just unlucky? I'd personally go for at least 1000w as I'm just a little OCD on having overhead on my PSU.
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Its been reported that Loki along with some other brands which i think are either Seasonic or Great wall OEM’s suffer from the same coil whine. Though i kept the one with the least coil whine and ran it in for a few months which seemed to have fixed it.
 
xybp9 said:
About to do this as well... worried I'll have to add another D5 (I have one but I prefer to keep using my leakshield which is 1 D5 only)
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This depends on the set speed and the generated pressure of the pumps. Again, 470 mbar is the
maximum total pressure. If the pumps in total exceed the pressure at the set speed, LEAKSHIELD can
only be used as a leakage monitor. Protection against leakage of the coolant is no longer provided in this case

Aquacomputer doesn't say you can't do it
Just that exceeding the maximum pressure
Will lose you the vacuum functionality
Or probably more specifically decrease the vacuum
To a point where they don't guarantee
It will keep all the fluid in

So may be possible to have 2 pumps for redundancy
As long as you set them at a lower rpm
Or set them up in parallel rather than in series
I believe that gives more flow
Without as much head increase as in series

Best bet would probably be email Aquacomputer support
With the set up
You would want to implement
And ask them
Though they may not be able to precisely answer it
Since overall tubing length not just vertical
Still affects head

But they can probably answer if in parallel
Is likely to work
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
This depends on the set speed and the generated pressure of the pumps. Again, 470 mbar is the
maximum total pressure. If the pumps in total exceed the pressure at the set speed, LEAKSHIELD can
only be used as a leakage monitor. Protection against leakage of the coolant is no longer provided in this case

Aquacomputer doesn't say you can't do it
Just that exceeding the maximum pressure
Will lose you the vacuum functionality
Or probably more specifically decrease the vacuum
To a point where they don't guarantee
It will keep all the fluid in

So may be possible to have 2 pumps for redundancy
As long as you set them at a lower rpm
Or set them up in parallel rather than in series
I believe that gives more flow
Without as much head increase as in series

Best bet would probably be email Aquacomputer support
With the set up
You would want to implement
And ask them
Though they may not be able to precisely answer it
Since overall tubing length not just vertical
Still affects head

But they can probably answer if in parallel
Is likely to work
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What are you doing up at this ungodly hour!
 
I've somehow convinced myself that i need the Aquacomputer dual pump mount, i looked at my build then looked at the dual pump and found the perfect place for it to sit. Now imagine with 2 x smart pumps attached....

Unfortunately won't be buying anything like that till after Xmas simply cos its gonna cost a bomb :cry:.
 
Jay85 said:
I've somehow convinced myself that i need the Aquacomputer dual pump mount, i looked at my build then looked at the dual pump and found the perfect place for it to sit. Now imagine with 2 x smart pumps attached....

Unfortunately won't be buying anything like that till after Xmas simply cos its gonna cost a bomb :cry:.
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Haha! Is that the nice shiny brass one!? It does look really nice, and I've not ruled it out either! I'm just going through a host of potential permatations for my external build. Why is there never a goldilocks system where you can just say...Take my money! :D
 
teejay73 said:
Haha! Is that the nice shiny brass one!? It does look really nice, and I've not ruled it out either! I'm just going through a host of potential permatations for my external build. Why is there never a goldilocks system where you can just say...Take my money! :D
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If only, but then what would be the fun in that :cry:. Definitely love researching stuff then convincing myself i need it when i absolutely do not haha.

Either is nice tbh, the delrin one is half the price though.

Take your time looking at stuff, BF is coming up so you got time yet plus cyber monday so you might be able to grab some stonkingly good deals on watercooling gear.
 
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