is this the right order to hook my WC kit up ? :/

locutus12 said:
that would mean its dumping warm water into the res, the heat from the warm water would heat up the res and the radiator would have more heat to cope with increasing the temperatures
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In your diagram i take it the arrows indicate flow?If that the case then your currently pumping into your res from the rad?Switching them round will make it easier to fill/bleed, as Mike said.
 
pegasus1 said:
Silentphoenix, just noticed your sig and that a quility retro rig you have there, mostly the same as my lads but why run your XP-m only at 200x11 on an NF7?
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Id really like to upgrade, but theres really nowt much that I do that my rig cant handle. I dont really game as much as I used to so all it does is play media, surf the net and play the ocassional game of CS:S or Conquer. Right now its running at 166x10 (or 150x10) mainly so that I can have my rig running whisper quiet (fan running at 5v) and so that it doesnt pump so much heat into my room (the reason why I hate the newer ATi GFX card - they consume more power than my entire rig!)

that would mean its dumping warm water into the res, the heat from the warm water would heat up the res and the radiator would have more heat to cope with increasing the temperatures
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Im pretty sure regardless of the order of the loop the CPU will still produce the same amount of heat, hence the radiator will pretty much be doing the same amount of work regarldess of the order. Wether the water is warm or cold, it cant get warmer itself without a heatsource. You may say this is the res, BUT the res was warmed by the water, and it does not work the other way round.

AS for the strength of the pump, I think it shoudl be OK since the pumps that come with alphacools starter WC kits are the ehiem compact 600 stations which are 600lph and 1.3m head which is probs in the same league as the c-systems. Agreed, having a more powerfull pump would give you better results, but getting a tripple PA120 rad would do so to... just where do you stop at to get better perf? Saying that i do think that getting a DCC pump would do you good :D (dont think it cost too much more, maybe like £10 more).
 
locutus12 said:
that would mean its dumping warm water into the res, the heat from the warm water would heat up the res and the radiator would have more heat to cope with increasing the temperatures :confused:
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So, if the res gets warm, because the water is warm, the radiator has more heat to remove? If the res gets warmed by the water, it must be removing heat from the water so the radiator would have less heat to deal with. In practice the reservoir would remove very little heat at all.
 
Warm water heating up the res and that loading the rad? And all the other stuff youre talking about... just lol.

Might wanna go over the law of conservation of energy again :rolleyes:

Components can only *add* heat to the water if they're hotter. For the reservoir to be hotter your ambient temperatures @ load, it would mean that your house is above the 30c coolant will happily reach in your typical loop.

If this happends in the UK, I hunbly suggest you get out of the house because ITS PROBABLY ON FIRE.

As for idealized loop orders and why theyre useless:

A Dual-TEC rig with ~600W heat dump and a PA120.3 (~2x what a dual-core Quad-SLi rig would dump) will have a water Dt of under 1c accross the radiator. If 600W are warming up the water by less than 1c every pass once temps in the loop have equalized, how much do you think the 9-15W from a pump will warm it up? :D
 
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