What I'm planning is a hot loop, with a single D5 cooling my CPU, MB, and GPU. The cooling loop with another D5 going to the 3 radiators all in parallel. Both loops will be fed from a common reservoir (well in fact it'll be two reservoirs, but with a common line between them. Doing it like this means I have all the cooling capacity available regardless of whether it's the CPU under load or GPU/s.
Waiting on a case for it allcan't you start it now?
Won't get one for another couple of weeks by the looks of things. Currently have everything else needed for the build, though I have a choice, either transfer across by 2600K or buy a Bulldozer. Tending to go for the 2600K as this will also allow me to do a direct comparison of how effective my passive case is and see if it has actually limited my overclock at all.Just 480s.
The cold return is getting mixed with the hot return in the same res. The 2nd pump will then pull water from that res through it's own personal res (which I'll be using as a fill point for the whole system).
Yeah the second res really is nothing more than a big bulge in the tubing. Ideally I would hang the second pump off a fillport in the roof of the case, but from the photos of the case I don't think there's space to do it. That's normally how I mount a pump as it makes them effectively silent.
No worries, if anything it's good discussion round about it.
Yeah, I'm heading this way now I think. When I was flusing the rads, I put them in series and was getting 3.5l/min, the restriction will be even less once put in parallel so don't think it's much of a load at all. Plus it means less heat dump from the 2nd pump.
Nah, with both valves open I'll have 3 rads online, close the top valve only 2 rads, close the bottom valve only just 1 rad. Close both valves the loop will go booom
