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frodoski said:There has been much discussion on the subject of the order of components in the cooling loop. I am not sure that anyone has conclusively demonstrated that the order of the components makes much of a difference in the temps you will experience.
Argument #1: Send the output from the pump so that the cpu gets the "coolest water possible.
Argument #2: Send the output of the pump to the cpu because of the higher velocity of the coolent to the cpu will aid in removing more heat from the cpu to the radiator.
There are many other arguments which abound but none has been truly substantiated.
frodoski said:There has been much discussion on the subject of the order of components in the cooling loop. I am not sure that anyone has conclusively demonstrated that the order of the components makes much of a difference in the temps you will experience.
Argument #1: Send the output from the pump so that the cpu gets the "coolest water possible.
Argument #2: Send the output of the pump to the cpu because of the higher velocity of the coolent to the cpu will aid in removing more heat from the cpu to the radiator.
There are many other arguments which abound but none has been truly substantiated.
thegame said:i think you have read his ? wrong lol. he was asking witch way is out on a pump.
fafnir said:yep, the vertical outlet on the pump is the "out"
Senater_Cache said:haha, that sucks man. Yeah it took me a while to figure it out too.
Too bad youre gonn ahave to refill everything.
fafnir said:no, its not the order of componets thats the problem, its that he;s reversed the flow to the cpu, which needs the water to come in at the center barb for the best results, etc.
crimedog said:Missing his point... with a 3 barb block you have to have inlet in center, outlets on sides. with his pump backwards he's doing the opposite.
with any system with decent flow it doesn't matter (<1degree) what order your components are in. try it out!
frodoski said:If it is a three barb water block then he may have an issue with the output of the pump being connected to the outer barbs. But, having said that I find no mention as to what version of water block is being used based on the image provided no conclusion about the configuration of the water block can be made. I have attempted to discern the configuration of the water block by zooming in on the cpu area of the image provided by CMonkey and I cannot tell you what the configuration is to save my life. But, it does not appear as though there is a wye connector in the loop.
crimedog said:Missing his point... with a 3 barb block you have to have inlet in center, outlets on sides. with his pump backwards he's doing the opposite.
with any system with decent flow it doesn't matter (<1degree) what order your components are in. try it out!
frodoski said:There has been much discussion on the subject of the order of components in the cooling loop. I am not sure that anyone has conclusively demonstrated that the order of the components makes much of a difference in the temps you will experience.
Argument #1: Send the output from the pump so that the cpu gets the "coolest water possible.
Argument #2: Send the output of the pump to the cpu because of the higher velocity of the coolent to the cpu will aid in removing more heat from the cpu to the radiator.
There are many other arguments which abound but none has been truly substantiated.
squeakygeek said:Actually, we have used math to show that in most setups, the temp drop across a heatercore, or the temp increase across a component or pump is negligible. Your point #2 is false because the flow of the coolant is constant throughout the system.
RedViper said:Isn't it a given that heats drops across a rad or am I misunderstanding you? As for temp increase across components, isn't that a variable, depending greatly on the component and its configuration? If you're correct in #2, and I mean no challenge to what you're saying, then it stands to reason that WCing component (rad, res, pump, blocks) placement is far less important than I've been lead to believe?
My loop is: pump-cpu-gpu-rad-res. Does this make sense? I read someone who was adament that a res decreases flow. If flow is constant, how can this be true?