Water Cooling Elements

**dragon2309** · 07-20-2005, 07:08 PM

Hello once again. As you may have heard i recently got my water cooling set up. I'm wondering what will happen if i attatch 2 pumps to my system, perhaps one directly before the CPU waterblock and one directly after it.

Also, what would happen if i added a second radiator. My first is a Tt Rocket Fanless Radiator, the second would probably be the Tt Bigwater 120 Rad. The first radiator would be before the waterblock.

Pic below

**Cromewell** · 07-20-2005, 07:20 PM

I believe the only thing a 2nd pump would do is give the system more head pressure.

**dragon2309** · 07-20-2005, 09:25 PM

Is that a bad thing, surely it would increase water flow rates etc... Which i would have thought you would need if there is a second rad present?

Hairy_Lee · 07-20-2005, 10:02 PM

if you had them running parallel with each other instead of inline it would increase the flow rate

**dragon2309** · 07-20-2005, 11:06 PM

What do you mean in parallel. You mean one after the other or what??

691175002 · 07-20-2005, 11:09 PM

Series is one after the other and paralel is using a y-spliter to seperate the flow into two streams and then giving each stream a radiator and then putting them back together again. Parallel is considered the better option because it does not increasse the pressure and the water travels half the speed so gets cooled better. If you still do not understand what parallel is google a bit and you should find some nice drawings.

If you have 2 pumps and 2 radiators most people would just make 2 different loops. One for the processor and the other for videocard and chipset.

**dragon2309** · 07-20-2005, 11:20 PM

Ok, say i was to forget about having 2 pumps, but still have two radiators. One before the waterblock and one after, with the pump inbetween the 2 rads. What would that be like, would the pump be able to cope with pushing the liwuid through 2 rads or what?? Its a standard 12v DC pump that pushes a 120 L/hr ?

joelkyr · 07-21-2005, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragon2309

would the pump be able to cope with pushing the liwuid through 2 rads or what?? Its a standard 12v DC pump that pushes a 120 L/hr ?

With your pump's specification(120L/hr), yes it will, but the flow would be much slower and besides, your loop is not a closed one, why would you need 2 rad cooling 1 block, adding another RAD wont make a big difference in temp(.5C to 1C drop).

**dragon2309** · 07-21-2005, 09:51 AM

Quote:

wont make a big difference in temp(.5C to 1C drop).

Is it really that little, ok, perhaps i wont get another one then, bit of a waste of money really. I was just wondering if my temps are a little high for water cooling, idle is around 42-44 C and load is 55 C. Are they normal.

P.S. I overclocked it from 2.8 to 3.25Ghz.... oh yeah and its a prescott LOL, he he

joelkyr · 07-21-2005, 10:09 AM

thats an ok temp for pressy. so no need for another RAD.

07-20-2005, 07:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 20 Posts: 8,423	Water Cooling Elements Hello once again. As you may have heard i recently got my water cooling set up. I'm wondering what will happen if i attatch 2 pumps to my system, perhaps one directly before the CPU waterblock and one directly after it. Also, what would happen if i added a second radiator. My first is a Tt Rocket Fanless Radiator, the second would probably be the Tt Bigwater 120 Rad. The first radiator would be before the waterblock. Pic below __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

07-20-2005, 07:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
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07-20-2005, 09:25 PM	#3 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 20 Posts: 8,423	Is that a bad thing, surely it would increase water flow rates etc... Which i would have thought you would need if there is a second rad present? __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

07-20-2005, 10:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
Hairy_Lee VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Plymouth, UK Age: 25 Posts: 2,553	if you had them running parallel with each other instead of inline it would increase the flow rate __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 EVGA nForce 650i Ultra mainboard EVGA 7950 GT KO SC 512Mb w/ Zalman VF-900Cu 2Gb of OCZ GOLD XTC SPECIAL OPS Eition Notebook - Acer Aspire 9300 - Turion TL-60/ 2 Gb RAM/ Geforce Go 7600 128 Dedicated (400 Mb turbocache)

07-20-2005, 11:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 20 Posts: 8,423	What do you mean in parallel. You mean one after the other or what?? __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

07-20-2005, 11:09 PM	#6 (permalink)
691175002 Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Calgary, Canada Age: 17 Posts: 376	Series is one after the other and paralel is using a y-spliter to seperate the flow into two streams and then giving each stream a radiator and then putting them back together again. Parallel is considered the better option because it does not increasse the pressure and the water travels half the speed so gets cooled better. If you still do not understand what parallel is google a bit and you should find some nice drawings. If you have 2 pumps and 2 radiators most people would just make 2 different loops. One for the processor and the other for videocard and chipset. __________________

07-20-2005, 11:20 PM	#7 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 20 Posts: 8,423	Ok, say i was to forget about having 2 pumps, but still have two radiators. One before the waterblock and one after, with the pump inbetween the 2 rads. What would that be like, would the pump be able to cope with pushing the liwuid through 2 rads or what?? Its a standard 12v DC pump that pushes a 120 L/hr ? __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

07-21-2005, 10:09 AM	#10 (permalink)
joelkyr Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Age: 33 Posts: 344	thats an ok temp for pressy. so no need for another RAD. __________________ MOBO: ASUS P4C800E DELUXE CPU: P4 3.4HT @ 3.918ghz COOLING: Vapochill PE / MCW20-P /MCW50 /MCP650/ BIX RAM: TWINX1024-4400C25 CORSAIR HDD: MAXTOR 120GB/8MB OS: XP PRO SC: TURTLE BEACH SANTA CRUZ 5.1 PSU: OCZ Modstream 520W

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