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[20mmrain]

you know as many of these water cooling setups that I've seen on here I've come to notice one thing...

if your cooling both CPU and GPU/s why go from the CPU block into the GPU block why not put in a Y or T joint in before the CPU and goto each separately, I know it's less hassle to do it the other way but by doing so your just pumping already heated water onto the GPU and even hotter water by the time it gets to a second or third GPU block sorta like this crude sketch

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Well with me.... I wanted a Performance but also quiet approach. I mulled over it and I asked allot of questions too. Most of the people I asked said go for a Separate GPU Loop and a separate CPU Loop. And I guess I could of.
But with the type of Rad and set up I got going here.... I am getting the best of both worlds really. I am running only 4 fans right now.....and my temps are.....

Old Furmark Temps GPU During Load....
Bottom 75c
Top 87c

New...
Bottom 34c
Top 37c

Old CPU Temp....(Stock speeds haven't overclocked yet)
50c

New CPU Temp....
43c

I thought these temps were too good to be true and that I was getting a glitch some where. But after testing 3 or 4 times with 3 or for different temp monitoring programs....I am actually getting better temps water cooling both the GPU's and the CPUs on the same loop rather then just the CPU on it's own loop.
Now granted I only had a CPU loop in my old setup.... so I had nothing to compare too. Plus I was using the cheapest Duel Black Ice Rad I could find.
But My point is given a strong enough Pump and given a Strong enough Rad.... people should have no problem cooling 2x GPU's and 1x CPU on the same Loop. The water moves fast enough over the Chips that it doesn't matter what order you have the loop in. As long as all the Heat gets to the rad and the rad is able to get rid of it.

 

[Laurijan]

I am actually getting better temps water cooling both the GPU's and the CPUs on the same loop rather then just the CPU on it's own loop.

Real strange - maybe you have the power to defy the laws of pyhsics

 

[Cold Storm]

Even with another piece of hardware.. your loop is longer, there for, it takes longer for the loop to heat up before going back into the rad..

 

[20mmrain]

Real strange - maybe you have the power to defy the laws of pyhsics

Yeah I re read that...... I actually spoke a little wrong in that sentence.... I only had a CPU loop in my old system.....My old Rad on that set up was a Duel Black Ice but it was the cheapest one I could find then. So combine that with the fact of my getting a better RAD and the fac that I went from a i7 860 45nm to a i7 2600k 32nm.... there is were you see the temp drops from.

As far as the video cards go.... I got a huge drop I believe for two reasons.....One here are some pics of the old Air cooler....

As you can see it is very under powered for the 6900 series. XFX added it trying to make things more quiet. Well besides failing at that.... it also made things more hot. You can tell by the back of the GPU Heatsink it is not very smooth and it is bumpy. It never sat well against the GPU. Also there weren't that many heat fins. Nor were there and Thermal pads for the memory.
So I believe the reason I am getting such better temps is because of these two reasons.....But if I were to split up the water cooling loops in to two loops I would probably get even better temps.
Yeah Sorry I did not mean to make it seem that I am getting better temps from this single loop more so than if I had two loops. I mis-spoke

On the way to church now but when I get back I will post some screen shots of the amazing temps I am getting right now..... PS. I reran Furmark right now and am actually getting about 42.5C on my hottest GPU right now.

 

[Laurijan]

Even with another piece of hardware.. your loop is longer, there for, it takes longer for the loop to heat up before going back into the rad..

Longer loop -> more water

makes sense

 

[Laurijan]

Yeah Sorry I did not mean to make it seem that I am getting better temps from this single loop more so than if I had two loops. I mis-spoke

NP - I was never offended but it made me wonder

 

[20mmrain]

I was never offended but it made me wonder

Yeah it would have made me wonder too..... Also just to throw this out there too.... the new Rad is a Duel Thickness Quad 120mm Rad. Actually Capable of push pull if I wanted (Not needed right now) so going from a single thick made for high static pressure cheap black Ice Rad to this beautiful Duel thick Quad Rad with a tolerance for lower RPM fans...... Makes a Huge difference!


I had no idea what I was missing....man I should of spent the extra money from the beginning!

But no worries bro I never thought you were offended I just wanted to clear things up.... so know one looked at the post and said "Huh?"

BTW Total Subject change but I rated your Rig so when I post mine make sure you rate it.... I still got a couple things to clean up though first.

 

[Athlonite]

so with an reasonably high pressure pump there's really no reason not to separate the line before going into either CPU or GPU blocks and recombine the line before the pump just the frig factor

 

[..'Ant'..]

Nice setups guys!

Here is mine:

I can't stand my PSU since its not modular.

 

[Athlonite]

but I see you've done a good job hiding the PSU cables so it looks fairly tidy though so job well done there

 

[Castiel]

Here is my freshly built PC. Finally upgraded.

Sorry for the bad images. There wasn't enough lighting so there is a lot of noise in the photo's.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

so with an reasonably high pressure pump there's really no reason not to separate the line before going into either CPU or GPU blocks and recombine the line before the pump just the frig factor

There are no pumps with reasonable high pressure in my opinion... except for an Iwaki maybe!
i guess going "paralell", would yield between 1-2c overall, on a single laing, with an aftermarket top... one thing it does for sure, is keeping the pump noise/vibration cooler and quieter, as it does not have to work that much, opposite to a standard loop

 

[20mmrain]

There are no pumps with reasonable high pressure in my opinion... except for an Iwaki maybe!
i guess going "paralell", would yield between 1-2c overall, on a single laing, with an aftermarket top... one thing it does for sure, is keeping the pump noise/vibration cooler and quieter, as it does not have to work that much, opposite to a standard loop

That is why My pump is mounted on a Pad for vibration and also right in front of a 140mm Fan for heat. This thing should last awhile IMO

 

[renq]

Will fill in my PC specs asap

 

[Cold Storm]

looks good. Just gotta play with cleaning up those cables at the bottom

 

[renq]

looks good. Just gotta play with cleaning up those cables at the bottom

Wut

You must be kidding me
HERE are pics of me doing cable management. There's really not much more I can do

But, of course, all ideas are welcome

The front intake fan is currently not connected as I'm lacking FAN headers on the motherboard and I don't want to attach Molex cables to the PSU just so I could run a fan. The cables at the bottom are SATA cables, perhaps I could rid one of them by buying a sata extrension cable and connect it to HDD (the sata power cable going to dvd drive doesn't reach the hdd)

 

[catnipkiller]

anyone else have an antec 900? i find its hard to manage wires. Or anyone got pics of how to hide cables on that chase my back pannel can hardly shut.

 

[Cold Storm]

Wut

You must be kidding me
HERE are pics of me doing cable management. There's really not much more I can do

But, of course, all ideas are welcome

The front intake fan is currently not connected as I'm lacking FAN headers on the motherboard and I don't want to attach Molex cables to the PSU just so I could run a fan. The cables at the bottom are SATA cables, perhaps I could rid one of them by buying a sata extrension cable and connect it to HDD (the sata power cable going to dvd drive doesn't reach the hdd)

Well, everything can be "clean".. Just gotta play with Lengths of cables and so forth..
I would say:

Longer sata to Dvd Drive, that way you can tie it to the 8pin and have it branch at the top.. if it's all ready long, connect the cables with ties..

As long as your connecting cables to each other.. Do that with the Sata power cable.. connect it to the 24/8 pin and it would make it cleaner just by that one little thing.. Even playing around with the GPU cables to connect them with the 24, would make that area cleaner..

The best thing to look at when you have a case that small, where there isn't really anything that you can "go back" and hide the wires there.. Bunch them together and branch them.. That way it's nicer looking then cables everywhere..

I'm not saying that you didn't work on it.. But, to cable a case.. for MAX air flow, it takes time.. and time... and even more time to do.. Then You Curse yourself when you want to change that mobo... Or case even...

 

[Velvet Wafer]

That is why My pump is mounted on a Pad for vibration and also right in front of a 140mm Fan for heat. This thing should last awhile IMO

There is always Room for Improvement

 

[Arrakis9]

Prepping the video cards & cpu for water cooling this morning

The watercooling came in on time this morning (thanks ups)

will have more pictures as the day progresses

 

[uzuhl]

Wut

You must be kidding me
HERE are pics of me doing cable management. There's really not much more I can do

But, of course, all ideas are welcome

The front intake fan is currently not connected as I'm lacking FAN headers on the motherboard and I don't want to attach Molex cables to the PSU just so I could run a fan. The cables at the bottom are SATA cables, perhaps I could rid one of them by buying a sata extrension cable and connect it to HDD (the sata power cable going to dvd drive doesn't reach the hdd)

There are just little things you can do to clean up those cables, like the SATA power on the CD/DVD drive, use the first connector of the cable and place the others, that are not used, somewhere else. Here are a couple of pics of my PC, of what I find to be (somewhat) adequate cable management. Hope this helps.

This would also be good for catnipkiller, as my case is as cramped as the Antec 900

 

[lilkiduno]

http://img.techpowerup.org/110328/DSCN0478.jpg

This has got to be one of the best labels on a computer part EVER!

 

[Athlonite]

and maybe the most redundant label aswell I mean whens the last time you tried to put bits of your mobo into your gun errr never that's when

 

[Velvet Wafer]

and maybe the most redundant label aswell I mean whens the last time you tried to put bits of your mobo into your gun errr never that's when

its due to customs regulations, so the stuff is easier to ship.... probably also saves them a lot of RMAs, where Cops tried to pull the magazine from its "socket"

 

[renq]