Megahalems Vs. Twin Rad Setup

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As title really, I currently have the Megahalems with 2 x Apache Blacks in Push Pull. Temps are perfectly fine but I am looking towards the future and a quieter system altogether.

I have basic knowledge of watercooling, but wouldnt know the heat advantages over my current system. I have the CM-690 II Adv. case and I am researching a twin rad solution but would it be worth it. Lets say if I had mid range watercooling parts, nothing too over the top.

Thoughts? Ideas?

Thanks
 
it would be quieter with temps a little bit better at a rough guess, high end air performs on par with low end water.

With high end air you dont really have to limit your OC as high overclocks are still doable, only for either going for extreme OC or just very quiet systems would i recommend water over air.

But if you put a GPU into the loop you could see great gains as the temp difference between air cooled (stock) and water cooled is huge.

The thing about water cooling with an eye to the future is that when you buy new kit you will have to buy new blocks aswell which eats a chunk out of your upgrade budget.
 
You pretty much just confirmed what I assumed. I would like to have a watercooling setup on my next major upgrade, so I might just bugdet for it instead of saying "I will get it one day soon, but air will do for now".

Is it possible, or viable is probably the correct way to ask, to have 2 x 240mm rads in the same loop to get similar cooling effects as 1 480mm rad? Or does this just not work?
 
yeh that would work and be very similar performance.
The only downside that in the cm690 you can only fit one thin RAD and one Fat one so you would need different speed fans on each RAD to get the max cooling effect.
I would recommend a fan controller so the fans could be controlled to give you the level of noise/performance depending on what you are doing.
you just have to remember to have a pump powerful enough to pump the extra distance/flow restriction.
 
You could do what i do atm, just use 1 thick rad to cool the cpu, and at a later date add in a thin rad at the top if u wanted to cool gpu also.
 
A single thin 120mm radiator should perform roughly the same as the air cooler, a single 120mm thick radiator should perform roughly the same while making less noise. A 240mm / 120.2 radiator would be a significant improvement.

Thin radiators will dissipate close to the same amount of heat as thick ones, but will need more powerful fans to do so. If it's quiet you're after, this probably means you don't want thin ones. A combination could work though, the thicker radiator would be ample when idle, and under load let all the fans ramp up at which point the thin one would contribute.
 
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