Alright, so when I first started up with water cooling I got a thermaltake case with embedded watercooling (Yes, yes. I know. "Boo prefabbed WC units." ). Even if it is "boo" it keeps my processor at around 34C, so I'm not unhappy with it. However, I am going to purchase a couple of 260's or 280's and I want them water cooled. I'm worried that adding those to the system will cause heating problems.
I always see screen shots of people running their cooling from their pump to their CPU, to the first gpu, then the second, then sometimes the third, and I wonder if that actually keeps them cool enough when they are in sequential order like that.
So, this is my question. Should I:
A) Create a totally separate cooling loop just for the cpus
or
B) Add on to the existing loop?
If A), thats easy and I will get custom parts this time.
If B), should I add a second radiator? Where should I place it in the loop? Should I add another pump, or will just the one be enough?
I know a lot of you guys have been doing this for a long time, so I hope you can help me. I don't need to go balls to the wall with my cooling, just enough to keep it cool. Also, I really, really, like my cooling systems to be completely internal. I know that this can affect the temperatures of of the cooling, but I'm really adverse to having a radiator hanging off the back of my rig.
Thanks for the help.
I always see screen shots of people running their cooling from their pump to their CPU, to the first gpu, then the second, then sometimes the third, and I wonder if that actually keeps them cool enough when they are in sequential order like that.
So, this is my question. Should I:
A) Create a totally separate cooling loop just for the cpus
or
B) Add on to the existing loop?
If A), thats easy and I will get custom parts this time.
If B), should I add a second radiator? Where should I place it in the loop? Should I add another pump, or will just the one be enough?
I know a lot of you guys have been doing this for a long time, so I hope you can help me. I don't need to go balls to the wall with my cooling, just enough to keep it cool. Also, I really, really, like my cooling systems to be completely internal. I know that this can affect the temperatures of of the cooling, but I'm really adverse to having a radiator hanging off the back of my rig.
Thanks for the help.