Does it matter?

[oldbob]

Hi folks,

firstly, I apologies for the extreme noob question here, but I'm not quite sure and don't want to mess up.

I'm just about to start adding the tubing to my loop, and I was wondering if there's a specific way of connecting the tubing to the rad for the flow, I mean is there an 'in and out' like there is on the cpu block or can I just connect to either port on the rad and still have the flow?

My loop will go.... res, pump, 360, cpu, gpu, 240, res.

 

[AverageNinja]

Yeah, there is an inlet and outlet for the rad.
Loop order doesn't matter
It'll make a 1-2 degrees celcius difference.
Go for what looks the most tidy

 

[oldbob]

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll keep it as tidy as possible

 

[AverageNinja]

^^ Good to hear
And welcome to the forums mate!
Hope you enjoy it here!

 

[oldbob]

Thanks for the welcome, I'm not much of a poster but I do read it everyday, its such a great source of info .

 

[AverageNinja]

Sure is
The posting bug will come, I promise
And once you've caught that, you'll be a real frequent poster
EDIT: After a bit of research, unless the inlets/outlets are marked on the rad, it probably won't affect temps if you reverse them

 

[oldbob]

Hi again,

the rads I have are the Phobya G-Changer V2 360 and Phobya G-Changer V2 240, neither show any indication on them of the flow direction, so I assume its safe to put the tubing on either of the inlets?

 

[AverageNinja]

Unless you have a Black Ice GTX rad, it'll be save I just read.

 

[SuB]

This is incorrect, Rads don't typically have an in and out. CPU blocks are usually the ones that do if they have a particular 'accelerator plate' design. Apart from that, besides reserviors that have anti air bubble setups, everything else doesn't matter, neither does the order in which you connect them (although i'm sure someone will disagree, even though it's been proved to make zero difference)

I tend to go
res > pump (with pump below res so it feeds naturally) cpu > gpu (> gpu *optional*) rad > res

edit: Of course, the pump bit matters

 

[oldbob]

Cheers for that SuB, I have a res/pump dual bay combo (XSPC Acrylic Dual 5.25” Reservoir with Alphacool VPP655 / Laing D5 Single Edition), along with the Phobia rads and EK waterblocks for both the CPU and non reference GPU.

The CPU block does show an 'in - out' on the top but the full cover GPU block doesn't, I'm assuming that the when you look at the GPU in the PC, the left is inlet and the right is outlet.

 

[SuB]

GPU direction makes little to no difference mate. They pass over the same grilled area usually, won't matter, go for whatever is the neatest.

 

[oldbob]

I will, thanks for the help lads .

 

[SuB]

quite welcome

 

[Chris230291]

Doesn't it have to go res > pump?

 

[airdeano]

Doesn't it have to go res > pump?

you can run a loop reservoir-less, but the feed to the pump is so critical any
falter in coolant flow to the pump then the pump life is diminished.

 

[Chris230291]

Arh OK.