- Joined
- Jun 20, 2001
- Location
- Southampton, ENGLAND
I'm trying to decide what order to set my components up in, what’s the consensus on the following?
Parts
Cooling
PC
Options
All setups are to fit in a midi tower case with a box underneath with the same foot print as the case large enough to take the radiator and pump. Plan is to have pump and rad in the box underneath with the 2 120mm fans pulling air over the rad (which will be in a sealed compartment).
Rad is shown at start and end of loops to show joining point.
1
2
3
4
My opinion is that option 4 is overly complicated so should be discarded. Out of option 1 or 2 I think that 1 would be better as it as less overall resistance (due to using the unrestricted inputs to the res instead of a Y piece). Option 4 is the one I'm uncertain of, I think I'm correct in saying this setup would have the least overall resistance. Having the GPU on one of the RBX inputs would allow the RBX to have the best pressure into its input. I understand that due to the uneven resistance on the RBX outputs flow rate would be better on the side without the GPU block but am uncertain to whether this causes problems or not. I know that it would probably be better to feed the pump from the res, but due to case size and layout having the res in with the rad and pump over complicates the tubing (lots of corners).
Apologies for no pictures but I don't have a good camera, will try to borrow one, or take some shots with my camera phone.
Thanks in advance.
Parts
Cooling
- Eheim 1048
- DD RBX
- DD Radeon block (to be modified to fit a Ti4600
- Mini Metro Heater Core (150mm x 140mm x 30mm)
- 1/2" DD tubing
- DD bay res, one output, 2 inputs (not the clear one, the chemical resistant one, can't find a link to it at the moment)
- 2x 2-port manifolds
- Y-splitter
- 2x 120mm fans pushing approx 60cfm to 80cfm each
PC
- Abit KD7
- XP 1600+ (currently at 2gig on air with no volt increase)
- Creative Ti4600
- 512mb Crucial pc3200 DDR
- SB Audigy
Options
All setups are to fit in a midi tower case with a box underneath with the same foot print as the case large enough to take the radiator and pump. Plan is to have pump and rad in the box underneath with the 2 120mm fans pulling air over the rad (which will be in a sealed compartment).
Rad is shown at start and end of loops to show joining point.
1
Rad --> Pump --> GPU --> CPU --> Res (using both res inputs for the return from the RBX for less restriction) --> Rad
2
Rad --> Pump --> CPU --> Y-split --> GPU --> Res (using one input) --> Rad
3
Rad --> Pump --> CPU --> One RBX output direct to Res , one to GPU then Res --> Rad
4
Rad --> Pump --> Y-split or manifold --> one to CPU, one too GPU --> gpu into one res input cpu into other using manifold or Y to recombine before res --> Rad
My opinion is that option 4 is overly complicated so should be discarded. Out of option 1 or 2 I think that 1 would be better as it as less overall resistance (due to using the unrestricted inputs to the res instead of a Y piece). Option 4 is the one I'm uncertain of, I think I'm correct in saying this setup would have the least overall resistance. Having the GPU on one of the RBX inputs would allow the RBX to have the best pressure into its input. I understand that due to the uneven resistance on the RBX outputs flow rate would be better on the side without the GPU block but am uncertain to whether this causes problems or not. I know that it would probably be better to feed the pump from the res, but due to case size and layout having the res in with the rad and pump over complicates the tubing (lots of corners).
Apologies for no pictures but I don't have a good camera, will try to borrow one, or take some shots with my camera phone.
Thanks in advance.