couple of questions

[joshcowin]

Hi their im going to do a water cooling rig soon when the Corsair 900D comes out and im wanting to seriously water-cool it.

so far my water cooling set up will include

Radiators:

480 mm (top)
480 mm (bottom left side)
360 mm (front)
240 mm (bottom right side)
maybe 120 mm (back)

W/C components:

water cooled Asus Rampage IV Extreme
4x 2 piece ram cooling blocks
cpu
2x gpu in serial flow
res/d5 pump combo

i know its overkill but i want a full water cooled rig

questions:
1.In which order would you make the water flow,i was thinking res/pump,ram,ram,cpu,ram,ram,420 rad,120 rad,gpu,gpu,420 rad,240 rad,360 rad,then back to res/pump nut im not sure if that will be the best way.

2.Would a d5 pump be powerful enough to pump all this water

3.Is it too much for a single loop?


Any questions are appreciated
thanks
Josh

 

[Cru]

how thick are these rads?

it doesn't matter that much in which order you tube the components, go for the best look / least amount of tubing

 

[S_I_N]

cooling the ram is totally unnecessary and you have alot more rad that you need so forget about the 120mm rad extra it would just serve to add more tubing and tacky it up I would try and hit a rad before everything else but in truth as long as you have the rez before the pump you'll be fine.

 

[SuB]

So long as the res is just before the pump and is elevated above or directly next to it with the fluid above the pump, it doesn't really matter about the order, the fluid temperature will not vary by more than a degree in the loop regardless.

Just go for neat and tidy, least amount of tube, neat routing etc...

You already have too much rad, don't waste money on a pithy 120

 

[joshcowin]

I know that avbout pump before res but i didnt know if the ram and cpu together would be the best in the way that it has to go through 5 blocks then a 420 then 2 gpus then a 420,240 and 360.
The radiators will be 35mm thick

 

[Spiderz]

900D and only 35mm thick radiators? The thing should hold 60mm ones easily, maybe even a few monsta rads as well and will cut down on all the radiators. A 60mm thick 4.120 rad and an 80mm thick 3.120 or 4.120 would cool just about anything you could possibly throw at it. Heck even this is complete overkill

Throw out the RAM coolers, no real need for them. Just cool the CPU and GPUs and perhaps the motherboard is you so desire but even that isn't really needed.

 

[joshcowin]

Well i wasent 100% sure how thick they could be and ive just emailed corsair to ask,okay i will probably go cpu,gpus and mobo then.thanks guys

 

[Spiderz]

Well i wasent 100% sure how thick they could be and ive just emailed corsair to ask,okay i will probably go cpu,gpus and mobo then.thanks guys

If they built that size of case and couldn't fit a 60mm thick one in the roof they should be firing the R+D boss. In the front you could easily get a 60mm there, maybe even the 80mm. Same story down the bottom, it is bloody massive.

 

[joshcowin]

True that,thanks spiderz i just mainly wasent sure about the front rad as the hdd trays will be their

 

[USAdystopia]

Awesome case...I want one!

If it was my build I'd go with just a 360 and the 240 radiator...thick ones. Pumps are getting better...I'd opt for a pump that was 5 or 6 watts. You might be able to do it in one loop! I'd buy the components and then add them to your loop individually to see how the system performed. The 240 could be just used for the cpu and the 360 for the gpus if you needed to add another pump.

 

[airdeano]

why not wait to see what corsair makes for a production model..
things change. costs change and what may have been said @ CES might not make
the end product to hit the shelves. so pre-buying to something that doesn't exsist
is futile..

 

[USAdystopia]

Although their forum isn't as good as this one...they have great products! If they were a graphic card vendor...I'd buy a couple; sight unseen!

 

[joshcowin]

why not wait to see what corsair makes for a production model..
things change. costs change and what may have been said @ CES might not make
the end product to hit the shelves. so pre-buying to something that doesn't exsist
is futile..

Well something thats going to get shipped in 3 weeks time then i would have said they have built the units up already

 

[USAdystopia]

Check out this information:

Swiftech...Support...White Paper on Single versus Dual Loop

 

[S_I_N]

Actually it's block dependent most full cover blocks you can do either universal blocks its highly recommended to run serial

 

[USAdystopia]

Had to decipher your sentence for a minute.

Seems the MOST important consideration would be temperatures imposed on each component as opposed to number of devices. If the application is cpu dependent/gpu dependent one or the other are stressed..."usually" not both. If both are stressed as in overclocking all components with high ambient temps, another radiator would be advantageous in a single loop.