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SeraphX said:
Mountain mods Danm54?, case looks nice.

still need a few bobbits to finish mine properly, had to bodge a fillport on the res, just a barb and some hosing, now kinked and ziptied shut dangling out the back, and the blasted rad is a thermochill something? went to fit my nice new shiny EK comp fittings to discover they aren't nearly big enough haha so need some reducers or some such, and thinking about some UV Cathodes or strip LEDS,
The fluid in mine is Mayhems Aurora Nebula, although i'm guessing it's my lighting, but it don't look as good as seen online for some reason?
Have to give props to that little pump though, even on it's own, barely a whisper of noise, Lot quieter than my old Bay res&pump, and some new fans are needed i think, was going to fit the TY140's from my now retired Silver Arrow, but they wouldn't fit so just hashed some Nasty cheap Antec tri spins for now, definitely not the best rad fan, even at full tilt cpu's idling at 32c :(
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Yea, its the HG2O, same as yours!

I've got the aurora extinction green fluid but like yours, it doesn't show up the pearls that well, plus I think the way I have the blocks piped up slows the flow too much and the pearls have stayed in the gpu block!

I have scythe gentle typhoon 800 fans, nice and quiet and perform quite well, all but 1 are controlled by the fan controller on temp sensors so only come on when the loop hears up, tiny amount of sound proof matting as well makes a really quiet case.
 
Danm54 said:
Yea, its the HG2O, same as yours!

I've got the aurora extinction green fluid but like yours, it doesn't show up the pearls that well, plus I think the way I have the blocks piped up slows the flow too much and the pearls have stayed in the gpu block!

I have scythe gentle typhoon 800 fans, nice and quiet and perform quite well, all but 1 are controlled by the fan controller on temp sensors so only come on when the loop hears up, tiny amount of sound proof matting as well makes a really quiet case.
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Ahhhh, i was looking at yours for ages for a common point of reference but couldn't find one haha
So you've got a single 120 hidden underneath by the drive bays?
Cable management down below is a bloody nightmare, have you got a modular Supply?, think thats next on my major list.

Nice fans, hmmm what sort of temps do you get with them?
 
SeraphX said:
Ahhhh, i was looking at yours for ages for a common point of reference but couldn't find one haha
So you've got a single 120 hidden underneath by the drive bays?
Cable management down below is a bloody nightmare, have you got a modular Supply?, think thats next on my major list.

Nice fans, hmmm what sort of temps do you get with them?
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Yea theres a single rad under the 240 and next to the psu, and that is a modular one! I've altered the power cables to the ssd's to keep it cleaner, the rest under the mobo tray is a maze of cables and pipes!

Temp wise, my cpu peaks about 58 and gpu around 52-53.
 
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power supply is in now but tbh i need to sort out my cables before i update with that :P
 
Danm54 said:
How much room is there in your caes!!!

Mine filled up real quick, but I have a 120 rad in there too. My mobo tray is also mounted the other way around, and I have a DVD drive and fan controller.
Can see why is full now :(

Some inspiration for you, not many of these cases on here :cool:
The white LEDs are the ones installed now..

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Excuse my ignorance but how have you managed that with the GPU block? Does'nt the coolant just go through the inlet and outlet without going through the block?

Looks great by the way. :)
 
But how does it make the fluid go through the block? Fluids take the route of least resistance which should imply that it comes in the inlet and shoot straight through the outlet without flowing around the block? :confused:
 
pastymuncher said:
But how does it make the fluid go through the block? Fluids take the route of least resistance which should imply that it comes in the inlet and shoot straight through the outlet without flowing around the block? :confused:
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The inlet and outlets are not connected, so the flow must go around the blocks.

The flow is proportional to the pressure loss, so it evens out depending on the actual pressure loss in each path. 50-50 or 60-40 etc.... High pd lower flow proportion. Overall the lower flow each, should give lower pd and higher total flow? Than series, delta t would be higher I think, then blended.

It would be interesting to get some temps and flows and I would calculated it.
 
pastymuncher said:
But how does it make the fluid go through the block? Fluids take the route of least resistance which should imply that it comes in the inlet and shoot straight through the outlet without flowing around the block? :confused:
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Think of it like if you spill a cup of water on your worktop, as soon as it reach's the edge of your work top the puddle of water gets pulled as it spills over the side, I suppose it's a similar situation in the block, the one side doing the pulling will drag the water out of the block, and obvious it gets replaced at the very same time by the other inlet.
 
Sorry I don't understand your explanation.

The series or para flow is the same analogy as electricity with voltage and current through resistors. In this case unequal ohms(pressure loss) values
 
Starkiller said:
The inlet and outlets are not connected, so the flow must go around the blocks.

The flow is proportional to the pressure loss, so it evens out depending on the actual pressure loss in each path. 50-50 or 60-40 etc.... High pd lower flow proportion. Overall the lower flow each, should give lower pd and higher total flow? Than series, delta t would be higher I think, then blended.

It would be interesting to get some temps and flows and I would calculated it.
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Ok, you lost me there when you started getting technical. The inlet and outlet are opposite each other with no more than a few mm between them. Even when the loop is full there can't be a lot, if any, flow through the actual block because there is nothing to stop the fluid from going straight through the inlet and outlet. :confused:

Normally with the full covered blocks, the inlet and outlet are staggered so that the fluid has to go through the block to get back out. With this setup that's not the case.
 
pastymuncher said:
Ok, you lost me there when you started getting technical. The inlet and outlet are opposite each other with no more than a few mm between them. Even when the loop is full there can't be a lot, if any, flow through the actual block because there is nothing to stop the fluid from going straight through the inlet and outlet. :confused:

Normally with the full covered blocks, the inlet and outlet are staggered so that the fluid has to go through the block to get back out. With this setup that's not the case.
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Think of how an airbrush works (for painting).

You essentially have a tube on top, with air flowing across a reservoir suspended below the "tube". The very act of air flowing across the top will draw paint from the res.

The same principle works with the GPU block in this scenario. Upon initial fill/bleed, the GPU block will fill, and with constant flow across the entrance/exit to the block, there will still be flow through the block.

Now, whether or not the performance is comparable to running the block in series with the rest of the loop I'm unsure.
 
paradigm said:
Now, whether or not the performance is comparable to running the block in series with the rest of the loop I'm unsure.
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i would have thought that the flow rate would be quite a lot lower than the rest of the system - but iim interested ini knowing the actual numbers now :D
 
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