Two radiators? Overkill?

Makhaira said:
What I mean by this is that if you think about the temperature of your coolant, it's getting hotter around the loop, hits the first rad, gets cooled, hits the second rad, gets cooled more. As a general rule, things cool faster if there is a bigger temperature difference. From that logic, it would make sense to have the rads spaced out within your loop rather than immediately in series like you currently have.
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Loop order makes no difference, you have at most a couple of degrees difference around the loop, more than that and you have a flow rate issue.
 
There is nothing that can be called OVERKILL
Maybe 2.5 inch exhaust on 1.2 corsa.
But if it goes for cooling a pc its impossible.
 
Seems as airflow has come up I'm gonna quickly ask a question I currently run a silverstone ft07 with a sr1 560 rad on the bottom o the case(fans underneath and on raisers) running 4x140mm cougar fans and one 140mm cougar fan on the roof vent, d5 pump ektop,rasa CPU block cooling [email protected] aqua computer block cooling 7950.
Sorry if I have over informed don't want people having to ask.
My question is I currently run the fans pulling air from the outside from the bottom of the case pushing through the rad and then the ceiling fan is exhausting the hot air out I thought this would be the better way as the mb is rotated so the air can escape from the mb vents also and it helps heat rises is this the better setup or would u do it differently?
 
chris-82 said:
Seems as airflow has come up I'm gonna quickly ask a question I currently run a silverstone ft07 with a sr1 560 rad on the bottom o the case(fans underneath and on raisers) running 4x140mm cougar fans and one 140mm cougar fan on the roof vent, d5 pump ektop,rasa CPU block cooling [email protected] aqua computer block cooling 7950.
Sorry if I have over informed don't want people having to ask.
My question is I currently run the fans pulling air from the outside from the bottom of the case pushing through the rad and then the ceiling fan is exhausting the hot air out I thought this would be the better way as the mb is rotated so the air can escape from the mb vents also and it helps heat rises is this the better setup or would u do it differently?
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Yes that's the best way.
 
it would be rude not to have 2 rads in a tj07. i have an ex360 in the roof of mine and an ex480 in the bottom. it does get a little crowded in the bottom with the rad,psu,pump ect thats why i changed from the rx480.
 
Thanks everyone for clearing up any problems / controversies etc. I'll be running the 480 at the bottom to intake air and the top rad will intake as well. I'll have the 2 92mm fans exhausting any hot air out.
As for the loop, I've read that no matter what comes first / last, the temp will only differ in a max of 2C which is fine by me.
Taken everyone's word on there being no such thing as overkill!
Now it's just a matter of finding a good rad that'll fit up top!
 
Ah, you have one up top! What fans do you pair it with? Also, how hard is it to get the CPU 8 pin through the mobo tray?
Also guys, since I won't have fans purely for intake, will the chipsets be fine? I'm 100% with the 2 rads now so that's my only problem I'm worried about. I run a sabertooth z77 without the fans (with the thermal armour on)
 
well being w/cooled you won't be dumping a load of heat into your case so the chipsets should be fine. the fans i use are scythe gt's1850 rpm. i had no trouble with the 8 pin myself
 
vectisitch said:
well being w/cooled you won't be dumping a load of heat into your case so the chipsets should be fine. the fans i use are scythe gt's1850 rpm. i had no trouble with the 8 pin myself
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Good to know! I was hoping you were using the scythes!

Will do 8 pack

Wouldn't class the case as massive, decently sized though. TJ07 if you're wanting to know.
 
Also, what GT's do everyone run? Whenever I'm on the buy page, I always feel the need to look up more reviews which then describe the GT's as having a whine and loud motor sound. Do you lot run AP-15/14/13's?
 
i currently run a tj07 with a similar setup.

480 in the bottom with intake fans, 240 in the top BUT with exhaust fans.
i also run 2x92mm fans at the back blowing in.
the air from those fans directly feeds the top rad with fresh cool air and cools the vrms on its way past.

i also intend to block off as much of the holes in the mid plate as poss to prevent air from the bottom rad moving up through the case. this should prevent hot air from the bottom from affecting the top rad.

all fans are controlled by an aquaro, brilliant bit of kit
 
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