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robertchalmers1

robertchalmers1

robertchalmers1

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hello looking for some advice or ideas regarding routing on my case, as you can see in my pic im not happy with the return tube but unsure of where best to route it

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any ideas please
 
does look a bit of a mess in there.

firstly I'd utilise your cable management a little better and get some of the power cabling out of the way and get this routed behind the motherboard tray. Also secure that 2.5 hdd somewhere

secondly how determined are you to have that res pump above the psu. I think this is your main problem as it's very awkwardly placed and causing you to make strange bends and very short connections

personally I would move the pump res to the floor of your case and face it 180 degs to what it is now allowing you to feed the connection up to your top rad along the bottom and up the backside of the case. It would also allow you to increase the size of the connection to your first second gpu.

also an ek link bridge might also reduce the messiness around your gpu blocks
 
cheers not done ane cable management yet as im waiting on my braided cables to come, EK link bridge is a no go as i cant find one with the middle opening blanked off.

not fussy where res goes tbh as long as it looks neat and tidy also the hdd will be getting fitted on reverse of motherboard tray when time comes along. for what its worth regarding pump positioning i also have a psu extension that will fit over psu and cover the bottom of the case
 
robertchalmers1 said:
cheers not done ane cable management yet as im waiting on my braided cables to come, EK link bridge is a no go as i cant find one with the middle opening blanked off.

not fussy where res goes tbh as long as it looks neat and tidy also the hdd will be getting fitted on reverse of motherboard tray when time comes along. for what its worth regarding pump positioning i also have a psu extension that will fit over psu and cover the bottom of the case
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https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-275-EK&groupid=962&catid=1529&subcat=2267

This is what you need.

I am using it myself.

Do you really need that front bay rez?
 
deFiniLoGy said:
Do you really need that front bay rez?
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Looks like a radiator to me.

I'd be tempted to rotate the pump/res around 90 degrees to the left and use 90 degree fittings to allow a straight run from the top rad back to the reservoir

What case is it, is there space to run tubing around the back?
 
i dont have a front bay rez its a 240mm rad. also the bridge linked is no use as its for 3 cards and the middle is not blanked off and there is a bit of confusion between the dif types. some are circles other are rectangle besides i have 2 of them here.

do you mean have the pump/res pumpimg to the top rad instead of into the gfx cards instead???
 
Personally, I would mount the pump/res in the drive bays and flip the top rad around so the fitting are in the drive bays.
Then you can run the loop - Pump > Rad > Rad > CPU > GPU1 > GPU2 > Pump.

Or you can switch the rads and pump around, but this would givce you just the connections between your GPUs and CPU visible with 1 connection going in and out of the drive bays. Would be much neater imo.
 
Mole. said:
Personally, I would mount the pump/res in the drive bays and flip the top rad around so the fitting are in the drive bays.
Then you can run the loop - Pump > Rad > Rad > CPU > GPU1 > GPU2 > Pump.

Or you can switch the rads and pump around, but this would givce you just the connections between your GPUs and CPU visible with 1 connection going in and out of the drive bays. Would be much neater imo.
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its the neatest less tubing solution im looking for tbh
 
i think you're always going to have a fairly lengthy tube as it's quite a run back to even the closest fitting. You could always keep the front rad in the orientation it's currently in but i always think it looks weird when pipes just disappear and come back out of nowhere. Id rather be able to see where they fit.

Also I'd think about putting a drain somewhere in your loop at the lowest point if possible
 
i was actually looking at the black ice rads wehere they have 2 openings at top and bottom so you can feed it at the bottom and exit at the top

i kinda thought im going to have a length of tubing that was a good bit longer than every where else
 
robertchalmers1 said:
i was actually looking at the black ice rads wehere they have 2 openings at top and bottom so you can feed it at the bottom and exit at the top

i kinda thought im going to have a length of tubing that was a good bit longer than every where else
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that skipped my mind actually. Would certainly clean things up a bit and maybe if there were any spare openings at the bottom you could use this for your drain also.

just depends on if you want to put the money out for it I guess but it will certainly look better for it. Also maybe a thick rad in the front would give it more substance and reduce the length of that pipe run. Looking at the amount of space you have a certain 86mm monsta would fit in there with push pull and offer impressive performance however I don't think it will have the top / bottom openings you're thinking about which is really your main concern
 
ukbilleh said:
that skipped my mind actually. Would certainly clean things up a bit and maybe if there were any spare openings at the bottom you could use this for your drain also.

just depends on if you want to put the money out for it I guess but it will certainly look better for it. Also maybe a thick rad in the front would give it more substance and reduce the length of that pipe run. Looking at the amount of space you have a certain 86mm monsta would fit in there with push pull and offer impressive performance however I don't think it will have the top / bottom openings you're thinking about which is really your main concern
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ive thought about a monsta rad and tbf money ive spent 1 extra rad wont make any dif only question i have is would a monsta make a noticable dif to temps as in how low can i possibly go???

my 2 gpus idle at 22c and only ever reach mid 30s at most after 6-8 hours gaming. even running intel burn test and valley at same time for 2+ hours gives me a water temp of 32c and cpu og 69c.
 
robertchalmers1 said:
ive thought about a monsta rad and tbf money ive spent 1 extra rad wont make any dif only question i have is would a monsta make a noticable dif to temps as in how low can i possibly go???

my 2 gpus idle at 22c and only ever reach mid 30s at most after 6-8 hours gaming. even running intel burn test and valley at same time for 2+ hours gives me a water temp of 32c and cpu og 69c.
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pretty nice temps. I think in only a few cases would a monsta rad actually be worth it and even then maybe hardly worth it would be more fitting. I think I'd certainly go push pull on your front rad as it's very little cost and will beef out the front reducing the run of the pip to your cpu. Also going down the route of a rad with openings at top and bottom wouldn't hurt also and should neaten things up considerably.

Must have taken a while to bleed that system through looking at the size of that res?
 
took 10 mins max to fill and bleed the system, was actually very easy with the spped/power of the pump. ive got some fans here to put in a push/pull config altho many claim there is no dif at all in temps either way
 
yea I would have thought it might be more troublesome considering the size of the res pulling air in after each power cycle. Surprising really.

Yea the difference is going to be mild however it make pad out the front of your case a little more if anything so long as you can keep the noise down. Extra cooling would be a bonus
 
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