First watercooling setup

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Hey guys, heres a few pics of my new watercooling setup let me know what you think.
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CPU Q9650 @ 4.005 1.32v
Motherboard Asus Rampage Extreme
Memory G.Skill 4GB DDR3 PI PC3-12800C7 1600MHz
Graphics Card Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
Hard Drives WD VelociRaptor 300GB x2 Raid 0
Sound Card SupremeFX II
Power Supply Akasa AK-P120FG 1200W
Case Akasa Eclipse 62
Swiftech Laing D5 Vario MCP655 12V DC Pump
XSPC Single Bay Reservoir - Black
CPU cooling XSPC Delta V3
GPU cooling XSPC Full Cover Razor HD 4870 X2 - Acetal
TFC Xchanger 480 Rad with Xtenders and 4 Noctua NF-P12 Vortex fans
xspc 120 rad in the rear fan position
OS Vista Ultimate 64
 
I'm guessing someone told you an "ideal" sequence for the cooling which is why you have what appears to be several metres of tubing! Also why I dislike bayres so much as the link from a bayres into a side-fed pump like the D5 as one really needs to rotate the pump 90 degrees; was there no way to have the inlet to the gpu come in from the top?

It's neatly done but it's gonna be a beeatch to work on!

Constructive bit

bayres to cpu block, cpu to gpu, gpu to pump (situate in bottom rear with outlet facing the back and inlet pointing upwards), pump outlet through rear to rad inlet, rad outlet in by the side of the psu straight to bayres.
 
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Looks a bit messy with the routing.

But the only thing you need to remember about ordering your loop, is Res> Pump, all the other bits only make 0.5C difference
 
Ging3r said:
Looks a bit messy with the routing.

But the only thing you need to remember about ordering your loop, is Res> Pump, all the other bits only make 0.5C difference
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Res before pump is only to help with filling. Once the loop is primed, it makes no difference whatsoever to have the res directly before the pump.
 
Thanks for the advise, like i said this is my first attemp, i might swap a few tubes around do you think i will get a better perfomance with less tubing ?
 
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i might swap a few tubes around do you think i will get a better perfomance with less tubing ?
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Ideally you want as little tubing as possible. More tubing = more friction between the coolant and tubing thus slowing the flow rate down and putting a little extra load on the pump. Yes you would get better performance with less but I don't think it will be a big difference and the effort required I'd leave it. Your temps seems pretty good so leave it till you have a problem or upgrade something.
 
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Ideally you want as little tubing as possible. More tubing = more friction between the coolant and tubing thus slowing the flow rate down and putting a little extra load on the pump. Yes you would get better performance with less but I don't think it will be a big difference and the effort required I'd leave it. Your temps seems pretty good so leave it till you have a problem or upgrade something.
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Thanks for the advise
 
Thats a mother of some cooling there mate!

With a 120.4 rad at the top, do you REALLY need the extra 120.1 rad?
With the extra restriction it puts on the loop you may find better results without it as the 120.4 rad should be more than man enough for the components. It would also free some space and help with simplifying the loop.

I second the call Mike suggested to rotate the pump, and then the pump exit would be good to exit case for the external rad.

You could easily rotate the GPU input (RH) to the top to help with routing from the CPU. Infact you could put both on top input to the left barb and exit right barb to the res.

Loop would be Res -> Pump -> Rad -> CPU -> GPU -> Res

Would be a lot neater with less restriction and should 'lay' nice (oh err!)
 
Ok i have changed a few things around, i started with turning the pump around and also getting a couple of barbs that fit the top of the graphics card, i lowered the res slightly, but i also decided to keep the 120 rad. I also took out one of my UV`s :(
So now my loop goes...Res>Pump>480rad>CPU>120rad>GPU>RES...
Let me know your thoughts.I will not be altering in the near future :)
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I also need to do a bit of cable tidying:)
 
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Much neater man.
I know you want to use that 120.1 rad and its all plumbed so I would leave it too, but would be interesting to see what temps you got without it! By removing the extra restriction of that rad and improving flow rates you might find temps come down again!

Its a shame you not got a hole at the top of the case to route the return tube from the 120.4 rad into the case to loose yet more tubing and tidy it even more.

Sorry, I dont mean to sound picky! Much improved and 2c lower you cannot complain!
 
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