Best route for this loop?

Silent_Scone · 15 Dec 2013 at 10:10

Hi guys, just a quick question...

What do people think is the best route for this loop with 3 GPUs (EK Serial connector) and cpu

Twin D5 dualbay res
1x 480 top (exhaust)
1x 360 front (intake)
1x 480 bottom (Intake)

Thanks.

Nickolp1974 · 15 Dec 2013 at 11:05

time for some amazing paint skills!!!
not sure on your rad ports??
and i 'd maybe switch the bottom rad round. done in acrylic it would look nice.

me personally dont like long tubes, so any longer ones possibly route them behind the mobo if poss.
order: res/top/cpu/gpu/bottom/front/res

edit: dont know what happened with the front rad and res tube??? but ya get my drift??

Silent_Scone · 15 Dec 2013 at 12:09

aha...cheers Nik, that's essentially what I was thinking!

Cheers for the technical diagram

Ragnahex · 15 Dec 2013 at 12:19

your in a 900d right?

Silent_Scone · 15 Dec 2013 at 12:32

Yes mate

Ragnahex · 15 Dec 2013 at 12:51

other than that diagram all you can do is turn round rads to fit piping but either way you already had the stuff ( crossflow rads are a reasonable choice for front rad to run pipes better)
what made you decide on the front rad rather than just another 240 in the bottom?

Silent_Scone · 15 Dec 2013 at 12:58

Because the space is there I guess. Might as well fit what the case allows

I need to have proper look at the case first (might help). It's still boxed up, might decide otherwise, but ATM that is the plan. Pretty straight forward loop

Ragnahex · 15 Dec 2013 at 13:01

your tempting me to add more rads to mine. I wonder if i add another rad i can turn my fans off totally

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Silent_Scone · 15 Dec 2013 at 13:25

lol, well this is the thing I did wonder if I could get away with one of them being fanless. Could do but might as well make use of the temps

Nickolp1974 · 15 Dec 2013 at 13:42

if you can fit the front rad somewhere else then i would and keep the front as an air intake only and all the rads exhausting.

Silent_Scone · 15 Dec 2013 at 14:52

Will see what suits, but doubt it'll fit anywhere else lol.

Mynight · 15 Dec 2013 at 16:55

Will the front rad fit? There seems to be a distinct lack of space between my bottom 480 and the front fans.

Depending on the length of your psu you could have the 360mm is the other side of the bottom.

Silent_Scone · 15 Dec 2013 at 17:22

The 900D takes a 360 radiator at teh front yes. Although I've yet to try and fit the EK one myself. Yes that's a possible alternative having it along side the PSU

It will be a Super Flower 1200W.

Mynight · 15 Dec 2013 at 17:28

O no I dont dispute the 900d will take a 360mm at the front. Just looks rather tight next to the 480mm, to the extend of needing a thin rad to use fans or forced to run passive.

Ill try and measure it up.

Ragnahex · 15 Dec 2013 at 19:29

i think with the 480 bottom ports at the back you would be able to fit a 360 as long as it wasn't too fat. (and atm in this case mine runs with no fans unless gaming with 2 290's in it.) maybe having to skip the bottom fan on it out though

Nickolp1974 · 15 Dec 2013 at 20:11

Ragnahex said:
your tempting me to add more rads to mine. I wonder if i add another rad i can turn my fans off totally .

You can never have enough rads!!

I have 420x86, 420x45, 240x45 cooling cpu and 1 gpu, soon to be 2.

Ran mine passive earlier, water temp went up 10c, cpu and gpu temps were still better than air, this was after an hour of bf4.

Ambient 20.5c

Fans off 34c(water)
Fans on 24.5c (water)

At the component cores there temps rose by about 4-5c with the fans off.

Mynight · 15 Dec 2013 at 21:14

Reading that I'm tempted to add my 360+240mm to my 2x480mm run completely passive. I'm overkill already

only got a 3820 and 2x7970s

Bart_Hunt · 15 Dec 2013 at 22:34

Hehe, Nickol thats sure a lot of rads

I'll have my loop done in January, planning to mod my Corsair 540 in order to add another 240 rad, so going to be 360 and 2 240s for 4770k and 770 x2.

stephenb · 15 Dec 2013 at 22:55

I had to remove the lowest of the front intake fans to fit a 480 rad in mine. I think you'll be struggling to get a 360 rad up front.

Ragnahex · 16 Dec 2013 at 10:40

Yeah but with the ports at the back of the case not the front it should give more room. I did it the same as you Stephen but now am tempted to max out rad space...