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definitely....
not.
You probably need to read the stickies a bit more on how to set up a loop. Keep in mind, a water cooling loop is what it says it is, a loop. You want point A to go to point B, to C, etc back to A. Get rid of the splits you made. That's a start.
 
No. Horrendously overcomplicated. For example, if you *did* set up what you have drawn, the flow would go the other way through your CPU block.

I'd strongly recommend closely reading the very detailed and informative stickies in this section. Think carefully about exactly why you are water-cooling your system and consider carefully what parts of your system you need to cool.

Your sig. suggests you only have one GPU - are you planning on water cooling your current machine, or a new build?
 
i am not water cooling anything but i have been looking through lost of post and whant not and just wanted some info my recommendation would to go pump/res cpu rad gpu gpu rez but i heard that is is better to have cooler water on your gpus so i was wondering if this was cool or not just want to expand my knowledge.
 
No. Horrendously overcomplicated. For example, if you *did* set up what you have drawn, the flow would go the other way through your CPU block.

And with awful flow at that. The ONLY time you should have parallel flow is if you have IDENTICAL restriction, parallel GPUs or pumps are a good example of this. Parallel CPU and rad is just a bad idea.
 
Well it is time to rebuild my loop, a new to me block and adding a second video card...planing on making it pretty much just like the diagram in the first post, I will let you know how it turns out. Current set up:

CPU(+clock): i7 [email protected]
AGP:: GTS450
Water Block(s):Swiftech Apogee GT(CPU) EK Sepreme (GPU)
Radiator(s): 1x Black Ice GTX240.
Fans on Rads (push/pull/both?): 4x Comair Rotron Md WD12c3 2250rpm Both
Pump(s): DDC 3.25 + DDC3.1
Tubing: Swiftech 3/8in ID x1/2in OD.

Delta - Idle
Ambient Temperature: 23.0C
Water Temperature (idle): 23.7C
Delta-T: .7C

Delta - Load Prime 95 8k + Furmark 1.9.2
Ambient Temperature: 23.6C
Water Temperature (load): 28.2C
Delta-T: 4.6C

The highest cpu core was 70c and the gpu core was 33c with this setup

Adding another gts450, change the apogee gt to an ek sepreme and using one pump.
 
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It is all done for now, this is a serial loop with the gpus in parallel, draining and trying your configuration now.


CPU(+clock): i7 [email protected]
AGP:: 2x GTS450
Water Block(s):EK Sepreme w/ jet plate 6(CPU) 2x EK Sepreme (GPU)
Radiator(s): 1x Black Ice GTX240.
Fans on Rads (push/pull/both?): 4x Comair Rotron Md WD12c3 2250rpm Both
Pump(s): DDC 3.25 w/xspc top
Tubing: Swiftech 3/8in ID x1/2in OD.

Delta - Idle
Ambient Temperature: 22.4C
Water Temperature (idle): 23.1SeC
Delta-T: .7C

Delta - Load Prime 95 8k + Furmark 1.9.0
Ambient Temperature: 22.4C
Water Temperature (load): 31.6C
Delta-T: 9.2C

The highest cpu core was 72c and the gpu cores was 37c with this setup
 
And your loop configuration.


CPU(+clock): i7 [email protected]
AGP:: 2x GTS450
Water Block(s):EK Sepreme w/ jet plate 6(CPU) 2x EK Sepreme (GPU)
Radiator(s): 1x Black Ice GTX240.
Fans on Rads (push/pull/both?): 4x Comair Rotron Md WD12c3 2250rpm Both
Pump(s): DDC 3.25 w/xspc top
Tubing: Swiftech 3/8in ID x1/2in OD.

Delta - Idle
Ambient Temperature: 22.5C
Water Temperature (idle): 24.5C
Delta-T: 2.0C

Delta - Load Prime 95 8k + Furmark 1.9.0
Ambient Temperature: 23.0C
Water Temperature (load): 32.5C
Delta-T: 9.5C

The highest cpu core was 74c and the gpu cores was 35c and 38c with this setup.
 
This is off topic. In your sig you have "Core 2 Duo Q6600". Is there even a Core 2 Duo Q6600?
 
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