little advice guys

scottmuir424 · 20 Feb 2012 at 00:01

watercooling system consists of 2 x RX240 equipped with fans on push pull, 1 is mounted in the roof and the other at the front. Temps on idle sit at 32 and rise to 58-62 when pushed

Going to substitute the roof radiator to a 360 with push n pull and put a single 120 rad at the rear also on push n pull. Reason being noise of all the fans at present is rather noisy so was think more rad space with fans on controller running at low speed.

Question is the pump im running at present is the xspc dual bay 750 rev2 pump which puts out approx 750 LPH, is this pump going to tolerate the additional radiators or will I have to upgrade to a bigger pump. ( I have a mcp650 lying around which pushes out 1200LPH)

any assistance much appreciated

cobbly123 · 20 Feb 2012 at 00:16

Have you just got cpu in loop ?

eggcup · 20 Feb 2012 at 00:17

Personally speaking i think the extra rad is overkill, as your system would be fine on 1 360 alone.

scottmuir424 · 20 Feb 2012 at 00:26

just got the cpu in the loop its running at 5Ghz. What ive noticed is when the fans are turned down and cpu gets loaded it can rise up to early 70s but if fans are on full it wont go above 62, just trying to eliminate fan noise as much as possible

cobbly123 · 20 Feb 2012 at 00:51

Have you taken the fine mesh out of the top fan grill ? If you slide it out and bend the tags over there is a fine mesh between the plastic honey comb and the top mesh with the x logo on, i took mine out and my temps dropped a lot. It seems to block a lot of airflow

scottmuir424 · 20 Feb 2012 at 01:21

just taken out the mesh it has dropped down 2 degrees

on idle still the same when cpus pushed

cobbly123 · 20 Feb 2012 at 19:40

Have been doing a bit of searching your cpu @5ghz is normal at 62-68, i dont think if you put more rads in it will make a lot of difference you already have 2x240mm rads in that should be more than enough

Cupra · 20 Feb 2012 at 22:32

2x 240mm rads
is the same cooling power as a 360 + 120 so you will gain nothing?

skyripper · 21 Feb 2012 at 11:49

From re-reading the OP, I think he's planning on keeping a 240mm in the front, changing the 240mm in the roof for a 360, and adding a 120mm at the back.

Giving 240+360+120 rads. Thats still going to be a lot of fans.. especially with push+pull.

Cupra · 21 Feb 2012 at 12:50

adding more fans would be silly to make it quieter maybe changing the fans to ones that perform better on rads would be a better idea