Cooling more than one thing

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You can go in series from CPU and GPU, but what if you run parallel? do you get a good flow rate through both pipes etc???
 
it depends. if your running 2 identical blocks and pipe runs, thus giving very similar flow resistance you should get about equal cooling from both blocks. if one block has much lower resistance that the other most of the coolant will go via the lower resistance path - even if you are going from say 1/2" to 2*1/4" and have a huge pump performance from the higher resistance loop will always be disapointing. you also tend to lose a lot of flow and pressure going thru generic nylon pipe splitters, tho cutom made ones can mostly stop this.

best used for SLI/Crossfire gfx cards, dual cpu or matching gfx/northbridge blocks (like the koolance 180G blocks) i wouldnt advise mixing say a TDX and a Maze3 as all the flow will go to the maze 3 and the TDX will get almost nothing. ofc, i am willing to be corrected on any of this if anyone knows better. but i thought id answer the bump.
 
I thought that would happen on a parallel loop, but just wanted to see.

How about one after the other, E6600 then 8800GTX all over clocked?

Would the heat from the E6600 warm the water too much to have effect on the GTX?

Dual loop as in two pumps, two rads etc...?
 
nah. you will really really strugle to get the water out of a block to be noticably warmer than the water going in - the overall load increases water temp, but changing order shouldnt make much of any difference (in my experience anyway)
 
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