does 480mm radiator with 8 120mm fans in a push/pull work with my build?

[MisfitJoker]

I am going to buy a whole new setup and with this I am getting a Corsair 900D. I want to do my first custom water cooling loop and I wanna make sure I do it right. First of all is a 480mm radiator, put on the top section of my case with 4 fans on one side and 4 fans on the other side, as an exhaust going to work for my 2x GTX 1080's and an i7 6900k. I heard using a radiator as an exhaust is better than an intake for water cooling. I plan on eventually buying the Thermaltake Pacific DIY PR22-D5. its a pump and reservoir combo.

Will this all sufficiently keep my parts cool. The flow chart I have in my mind is first pump/reservoir> 2nd gpu> 1st gpu> CPU> Radiator on top> back to reservoir.

 

[USAFRet]

8 fans would work just about as well as 4 fans.

 

[Flying Head]

Hmmm, you could go crazy with the options. I would not want to feed a device water that had been warmed by another device. How about a manifold after the radiator with parallel pumps, each feeding a single device. Each pump could have its own temperature/flow controller. The radiator fans could be controlled as well. Just dreaming!

 

[MisfitJoker]

Its already pretty crazy for me to be doing this so I dont wanna get even crazier and add a 2nd loop too it. Im just curious how 8 fans on one 480mm radiator will work out. Maybe I could put another radiator on front as well and have that join the loop but im not sure where i would feed that into the chain....

 

[MisfitJoker]

also is that pump i mentioned in my first post strong enough to get a good flow going thru my 2 gpus, cpu and my radiator? possibly even a 2nd 360mm radiator as well? What about getting a small 120mm/140mm radiator at the back of my computer so it can cool it down before going to my cpu. so the new flow would be pump/res> gpu2> gpu1> 120mm rad> Cpu> 480mm rad> back to pump/res. Could one pump do all that with "1135L/hr High Lift Pump Performance"?

 

[Flying Head]

Have you declared Fluid Dynamics as your major? It is a good field to study. I am a mere mortal, but you'll have a lot of friction (all that stuff in series) requiring plenty of pressure to overcome obstacles. My experience is filling a water glass from the refrigerator, which is kind of slow.

 

[MisfitJoker]

Well im just asking from people with personal experience, not a mathematics explanation.