I'm new to this. Just looking at this thread, researching for my first go. I'm studying plumbing at college. From a plumbing perspective, some things just don't make sense to me, like the lack of manual or auto air admittance valve for priming. I'm very tempted to use compression fittings going to 10mm microbore copper tubing, and soldered joints. It's easy to get perfect bends with a handheld bender. It might look a bit industrial like a Mamod engine. I'm tempted to have a separate flow and return run too. Without the circulator, the liquid will naturally want the rise up. Once cooled, it will fall back down. It makes sense to me, not to go against the grain. In other words, let the pump help the coolant to flow the way it wants to naturally. Where the pump is seems fairly irrelevant, as it is a closed system. Otherwise the reservoir would need to be higher than the top rad. The only concern about placement would whether the pump could handle the heat, straight from the chips. I shouldn't imagine that's a problem. Back to the pipe layout. Surely you want both blocks to receive roughly equal qualities of cool water, not for one to get pre heated water? Wouldn't a separate flow and return
I want to cool my cpu (i7 4770K), motherboard (Gigabyte GA Z87X OC Force), and a single video card (to be determined later). Can I run the output from the reservoir to a (one) radiator splitting the output three ways sending them to the separate components and rejoining those outputs (by a splitter in reverse) before sending the flow back out to the (one) reservoir. Or; Should I split the flow directly from the reservoir 3 ways running them out through 3 separate radiators and on to the separate components and then rejoin the lines on their way back to the (one)reservoir? Shortened could I use one radiator or do I need three? How much does splitting the lines via splitters effect the overall coolant flow and performance? I know its a long question but sometimes its the little details that make the biggest differences. I should add that I am new to liquid cooling but I learn fast and have a lot of common (not so common anymore LOL) sense.
I'm looking into liquid cooling for the first time. I'm studying plumbing in college. The principles are the same. It's small scale plumbing, basically. Yet people seem to have the funniest ideas. I intend to experiment for my first go. I'm going to try connecting 10mm microbore copper tubes, using compression fittings, soldered joints, fittings, and jointing compound. Should be no leaks. I'm with you. Ideally, both water blocks, would both receive water at the same temperature. If the water going around is all the same temperature, then the pump speed is wrong. I'm going to try separate flow and return pipework, like you have in central heating. There should be a fall in temperature, between the flow and return. This indicates how much heat the radiators are dissipating. The drawback to this method is that there are no valves and, hence, no way to balance anything. On the up side, I would have thought it would be easier on the pump; like trying to breath through a straw, vs trying to breath through 2 straws.