watercooling

the wopster · 6 Dec 2009 at 13:15

i already have a Thermochill PA120.3 in my system. i have a spare 120 rad not doing anything would it hurt performance if i put it in my loop,at the minute im only cooling my cpu but i plan to put my gpu and nortbridge in the loop in the next month or so

95thrifles · 6 Dec 2009 at 13:23

Well I'm no expert but you're adding resistance so its gonna reduce your flow rate, what pump are you using though? If the pump is pwerful enough I'd of thought it would be ok, someone may correct me though

the wopster · 6 Dec 2009 at 13:26

DDC 10v solderd to make it the 18v ultra is the pump im using

JonJ678 · 6 Dec 2009 at 14:03

Then definitely add the extra radiator, currently your pump is thoroughly over specified for the loop. You should be able to string any reasonable number of things off that pump with no issues.

After adding in the motherboard/gpu blocks you'll benefit a bit from making the ek supreme less restrictive, taking out the steel impingment plate in the middle. Only a few degrees in it though.

Northbridge doesn't matter much on X58 btw as it doesn't generate very much heat, the mosfets are more important. Conventional wisdom says so anyway, I haven't put mosfets or northbridge under yet.