quick question

[DiarYofaMadmaN]

When the water pump pumps the chilled water around to the different hardware does it take the heat away from the chip? When the water takes the heat away from the chip wont it take the warmed water to the next chip inline to be cooled? Isnt this defeating the purpous of cooling down the chips?

[ziptieboy]

Your second chip (GPU, Northbridge, etc.) doesnt get as hot as your cpu. So you want your CPU to be right after the rad, so it gets the coolest water, and your other blocks after the CPU. The water will still take away heat from your other chips.

Someone correct me if im wrong and I hope this helps
Scott

[EluSiOn]

Yes... that is if everything is in a series.

You can set up a parallel series where chilled water delivers to all different component the same time. However, it is more difficult to set up a parrallel. I tried and I failed. Also.... my setup is

pump -> radiator -> cpu -> nb -> resevior ->

The water temp came out radiator is 27c. the water temp came out cpu is 27.5c now. The difference for the temp is only 0.5c on my setup when idle. When my system is full loaded, the temp difference never exceed more than 1c.

[DiarYofaMadmaN]

The reason why i was wondering this is because i'm going to setup a multi AMD MP at like 2+ GHz

[EluSiOn]

for dualie...

you will definately set your water blocks in parallel

pump -> radiator -> Y splitting -> CPU1 & CPU2 -> Y splitting -> Other components .....

[Caffinehog]

I had a duallie that was just fine with the waterblocks in a series.
Water, unlike most substances, absorbs a lot of heat before increasing in temperature. For every calorie of heat that water absorbs, it increases in temperature by 1C. Alcohol increases by about 2.2C, oil by about 5-6C, and metal by about 10C.
This is why water is used for cooling. Not much is better than water.
If you use water on a duallie and put the chips in series, the temperature difference will be less than 3C.

[DiarYofaMadmaN]

Great! Thanks for your help guys... I have an idea on what i want todo... Only thing is i'm new to all this and i have no idea what water blocks to use or what radiator to use any ideas? Thanks agian for ur replies :-)

[Toysrme]

Remember even if it dose heat up the water a lot and you've lost some efficiency cooling whatever is after the first block... So what, water's really efficient to begin with. Your other option is air.
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-Toysrme