My New Winter Project
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All three rads are in parallel so the restriction will be greatly reduced. A single D5 will handle it no problem.
Had a compression fitting fail, couldn't have made it up right. So when I get home tonight I'll buy some more water and retune that one bit.
You don't need much at all, that's enough there to stop any vibration being transmitted any further and the pump itself is next to silent.
Lesson learned, the EK mounting kit for their res' is useless.
PSU extender, with dual Seasonic 450W passive PSUs.
And connected up.
Now running Prime to see how different temperatures are compared to my passive set up. Currently looking like 15C better temps.
Tell me about it, the screws are too small for the holeEK make useless res holders whitch don't tighten at all
If the motherboard wasn't there, it could look like a house missing some walls with all that plumbing.
Haven't been able to hook up the Tbalancer yet as I don't have the right USB cable to fit it, once I've done that I'll then be able to check flowrates and so on.
It's a programmable fan controller, I'm going to connect all the fans to it, the temperature sensors and the flow meter amp and I'll configure it so that when there's no load it'll be quiet and if the water heats up to much it'll ramp the fan speed up.
12 fans at full speed is pretty noisy!
Because more cooling = more overclock
At the moment it's a 2600K and a 580GTX, but I'll be going IB + CF/SLI next year.
Nah, was hitting 80C, it'll happily run passive though at idle though.
Currently running 2.4lpm through the CPU block, 0.9lpm through the top rad, and 1.2lpm through the bottom two. Slight in accuracy it seems as the total of the two rad flows should equal the CPU flow.
Edit:
CPU flow rate with 3 rads online is 2.45lpm
CPU flow rate with 2 rads online is 2.25lpm
CPU flow rate with 1 rad online is 2.15lpm
Edit:
CPU flow rate with 3 rads online is 2.45lpm
CPU flow rate with 2 rads online is 2.25lpm
CPU flow rate with 1 rad online is 2.15lpm
Well, either I've got a 300ml/min leak, or the flowmeters aren't totally accurate.
Does it matter if it's different?
Reckon the meters would be accurate to 5% which is actually quite good.
The CPU flowrate splits in two, part of the flow goes through the top rad and the rest goes through the bottom two. The flowrate through the bottom two should be more or less double the top one as they will be half as restrictive. It's only different because of the inaccuracies of the flowmeters.
The amp actually has a switch betweem 6mm ID tubing and 10mm tubing. I'm using 8mm tubing so it'll be somewhere between the two in reality, so I've went with 6mm tubing which gives a slightly lower flowrate measurement.
That's 80C when Priming though!
Series is considered worse, because not only are you losing the maximum deltaT, but the increased restriction cuts flow rates. Even just valving off my radiators was dropping the flow rate. Adding them in series would have reduced the flow even more.
The only downside to parallel is that the individual flow rates in each rad is less than in the common section, but rads are much less flow dependent compared to CPU blocks.
The only downside to parallel is that the individual flow rates in each rad is less than in the common section, but rads are much less flow dependent compared to CPU blocks.