warm water

[peewee]

i knoticed when i tested my water kit i ran it for 4 hrs on my desk not connected to computer and the water got a little warm, prolly prom the pump, its a maxijet 1200, is this normal and ok????

[Colin]

Ten hours of running a Danner 700 inline while testing for leaks raised my water temps 10C. I think what you are experiencing is normal.

[William]

this is why you want your rad in front of the cpu in the line order, so the coolest water gets your cpu. Adding a resevoir will also help lower the temps.

[stool]

I had the same experience when testing, particularly in a short loop without the radiator.

[lightning]

i let my magdrive 500 run for whole day and it did warm up a bit the water in the reservior too!! but not as much as ur all did. i had check the pump and it rate at 40W!! so maybe it did dissipate a lot of heat into the water!! i run the water to the pump then water block and last to the radiator back to reservior. is that right???

[ken257]

The order depends on what componants are in your system. With the Swiftech mcw462 and Dangerden Maze 2 blocks I have the out of the pump feeding the block. The reason is that these blocks have the inlet directly over the core and you get a good strong jet pounding on top of the cpu this seems to cool best. I do this with an inline setup, no reservior. The pump dissipates most of the it's heat into the air not the water.

In testing overnight before installing I did notice the water would heat up a little but this is after how many hundres of passes through the pump? 1 pass through adds only a tiny fraction of a degree to the water.