Water cooling pumps.

[BristolBulldog]

I am currently running three 1/2 loops for my system, each with its own 240mm rad, and xspc 1000 pump.

What i am looking to do is convert this into a single possibly dual loop.

I am cooling: -
Will be quad core currently swiftech apogee e6600, penryn/ phenom (when i upgrade soon).
hd2900xt with aquagratix block (already have this
DD maze4 chipset block.

I was looking at pumps and it seems the Alphacool ap1510 has specs far in excess of the D5. I can't find any reviews, good bad, or otherwise of this pump. The lift height of 6m sounds good, as the aquagratix block i have uses g1/8 thread, that i have converted to 1/2" but is still very restrictive i feel.

What i really want is a really really powerful pump to do this: -
res>dual rad>cpu>dual rad>vga>dual rad>chipset>res.

Alternatively, i could go for a dual loop, putting the gpu on its own loop.

I am using a mozart TX case, so space isn't such a concern.

 

[drunkenmaster]

i could be wrong but, 2 dual rads should be plenty for a quad and a 2900xt and chipset, 3rd rad is a little overkill. a dual rad + pump just for the chipset block is insane.

i hooked up just now, and mostly because i couldn't find a decent pump in stock, a e6600, 2900xt on some 3x120mm rad and chucked in a 2x120mm rad aswell on an ehiem 1250 which isn't the most powerful pump ever. it cools stupidly well and barely increases in temp if i turn off 3 of the fans and only have 2 running silently.

i would think running 2 rads, + all the blocks and maybe just chuck 2 of the pumps in series.

as for temps, the water shouldn't be increasing more than 1c, at worst 2c maybe from going through one block so the two rads in series next too each other would be just as good and much easier, less tubing aswell than if you go rad > cpu > rad > gpu.