looping multiple water components **best way**

[ace1981]

hi my bro flogged me his zalman reservator very cheap i couldnt refuse i thought id get it intentionly just to cool the graphics card x1800xt eventually i will be crossfire

and at the same time my order was in progress half the order has already arrived so ill tell ya what i will have and to hook all together with best tubing route

i have [ ]=ariving soon

1x black ice stealth triple rad
1x tripple nexxxos extreme rad
1x 250mm xspc red alloy res
1x 500mm xspc black alloy res [ received today]
1x Danger den tdx cpu block for 939
[1x gfx water block probley ZM-GWB3 Water Cooling VGA Block]
[1x gfx ram water block again not got as yet] ZM-RWB1 VGA RAM Water Block
1x zalman res no cpu block just that hopefully the reservator pump will help as well
1x hydor l30 pump
1x chipset waterblock

have 10mm tubing but im converting to 1/2 on all so itll be better

some people may say this is too much but i couldnt refuse not buy the reservator of him

so how would you do this with the tubing and with 3.2 litres of water it should cool everything what temps do ya think ill get?

 

[ace1981]

just thought this loop up dunno if it effeciant though i let you guys tell me


pump > reservator > black ice stealth rad > tdx cpu block > nexxos rad > 500ml xspc passive res > gpu block > 250ml xspc passive res > chipset block > back to pump..

 

[welshtom]

1) Why all the radiators
2) Why all the resevoirs

With all those components and that pump, the flow will be very very bad.

i'd consider either taking some stuff out or getting a few pumps.

The temps you will get if you take out a res and a rad will probably be better than what you will get with them

Tom

 

[Marci]

Take the following items:

1x tripple nexxxos extreme rad
1x 250mm xspc red alloy res
1x 500mm xspc black alloy res [ received today]
1x zalman res no cpu block just that hopefully the reservator pump will help as well
1x hydor l30 pump

Now sell `em. Use the money to buy an Alphacool Laing DDC Ultra with plexi top. Get FULLY STAR YOUR SWEARIES! on the rest. That pump and what you have left will outperform what you had including the items above.

It's anything but efficient, and it's a corrosive timebomb. The reservoirs, being aluminium, won't survive more than a year without corrosion, unless you flush and change coolant every 5 months to refresh the anticorrosive properties.

 

[ace1981]

why would it corrode??....the zalman reservator i basicaly alluminum with pump and that is non corrosive and i thought the passive resivoir black and red alloys would also be non corrosive due to being almost identical to zalman...my bro had his for over a year with no problems at all and no changes or bad effect like rust/corrosion or tubing rotting away...only wondered if the above statement i gave earlier was workable??
if it only needs another pump to help it along what pump is recommended...and p.s cant sell the stuff as i only just bought it so it either a waste or not but id like to salvage it if possible even if it mean splitting them into 2 individiual cooling setups = graphics card and cpu.

thanks for the info/comments above from other users but more advice is needed...cheers

 

[R B Customs]

well these guys are righ, youve prettymuch ruined any potential cooling with all of those components.

watercoolign is all about balance.

ballane between the power of yuor pump, and the restriction of your blocks, the length of your tubing, the heat dump. everything counts.

what you have there is a weak pump and an UBER restrictive loop. a tripple rad is enough. but a tripple rad and a reserator, and those other XSPC things is just silly... and i dont mean ' zomg look at that uber loop that guy has' silly... i mean plain ol' silly lol.


id do what marci said to be honest.


as for the corrosion. its becuase copper and aluminium are in different parts of the reactivity series. and with the added water what you have is pretty much a crude battery. one metal will munch away at the other until you have a big mess. his will also casue problems in your pump, and glog any impingement blocks yo may be using.

 

[ace1981]

ok ill continue with my current setup just the reservator can do the graphics & gfx ram water block and chipset by it self wont be not connected to the other watercooler setup which will do just cpu

my thought was becouse the reservator hold

2 litles of water it would be a good resovoir and by it self should keep the water cool then when it goes through one rad itll be cooler than it was so itll get to the cpu nice and cool then goes to another rad cool down the heat to fill the res cooling it again a bit ready for the graphics card heat and memory block the that heat should dispapate into the small res and then cool the chipset then back to pump

yes it may well be a long route to do but the reservator bit was only just thought up today but my main reason for getting it was for the grafix card and chipset so it quieten them down

was going to use the main watercooler but my brother needed some money and i offered to help him out so i bought this zalman just for graxics


what the best pump so i can exchange the hyder l30 as i thought it was a ok pump since it was a waterchill

 

[Marci]

NOTHING about waterchill hardware is ok. As stated above, Alphacool Laing DDC Ultra with Plexitop is the best pump around to date.

 

[MikeTimbers]

Let's be kind to the guy.

Two loops is an acceptable plan. Use the Reserator (carp name for a carp product but what the hey!) to cool the graphics card and the rest for the cpu.

You'll get acceptable cooling for both gpu and cpu without ruining it all.

But oh! why didn't you do some research first?

 

[ichabod crane]

why do you have to GFX blocks you sig only shows one card.

any way keep the one 120.3 rad, and the red alloy res, the TDX and one of the GFX blocks. sell the rest of the items on there just pointless, get a Laing DDC pump and you should get excellent temps then.

loop then being

res-pump-rad-cpu-gfx-

and it you really wish you can put the chipset in but there not really worth it in my opinion.

as for two 120.3 rads that is just excessive and you wouldnt get any temp improvements also you would kill that hydor in a week there very poor pumps.

and the resrator only gives average tempsas its passive.

 

[mrthingyx]

But oh! why didn't you do some research first?

'Tis true.

However, I'd like to point out that the Hydor L30 pump is not bad at all... almost identical in performance to the Eheim 1250, but a lot smaller.

However, that doesn't mean it will be good in comparison to the newer DD/Laing/Swiftech efforts: those will achieve much greater pressure heads (important for watercooling) which means better cooling for you.