Dual pump loop order

[PacificNic]

There IS a TL;DR

I recently posted my current system on the forums and spoke of me wanting to migrate to a different case to expand my loop's performance. I think I have settled on the Define S but I had some concerns regarding the loop order. Now I know that traditionally you should go res -> pump and the rest doesn't matter but in my case, I want to keep the H220-X in the loop. The idea is to have rear and front intakes (H220-X in front) a 360mm rad on exhaust in the top and my loop would go in order of what looks best.

My concern arises from the fact that I am using two different kinds of pump and the order at one point would be H220-X (rad/res/pump) --> res --> D5. I don't know why, but I have it in my head that this would have a negative impact on performance.

Alternatively, I could swap the H220-X and 360 rad locations and then the order would end up being H220-X --> 360 --> res --> D5 which seems like it wouldn't suffer as drastic a hit in performance.

TL;DR:
This is mostly a sanity check. I have two different pumps and I want to know if loop order matters because of this. I might just be WAY overthinking this. If I am, please tell me

Thank you, all advice appreciated

 

[SuB]

Erm, in my experience using two different pumps is not a good idea, while in theory it won't hurt because constant flow, It won't help either because the weaker of the two will probably just slow things down, depends how the H220-x pump works I don't really know a lot about it.

Personally I'd keep the pumps as close to each other as possible so the flow remains constant over the rest of the loop.

 

[PacificNic]

Erm, in my experience using two different pumps is not a good idea, while in theory it won't hurt because constant flow, It won't help either because the weaker of the two will probably just slow things down, depends how the H220-x pump works I don't really know a lot about it.

Personally I'd keep the pumps as close to each other as possible so the flow remains constant over the rest of the loop.

I do have a 240mm standalone radiator that I could obviously chuck in instead of the H220-X, however, I don't really like it and buying a different one would leave me with the H220-X and a 240mm rad on the side. That could make one overkill CPU loop, but I don't know that anyone would take that offer.

EDIT: It would also mean that I have to spend even more on radiators

 

[NeverBackDown]

I do have a 240mm standalone radiator that I could obviously chuck in instead of the H220-X, however, I don't really like it and buying a different one would leave me with the H220-X and a 240mm rad on the side. That could make one overkill CPU loop, but I don't know that anyone would take that offer.

EDIT: It would also mean that I have to spend even more on radiators

Watercooling ain't cheap. It's an enthusiast hobby afterall

 

[PacificNic]

Watercooling ain't cheap. It's an enthusiast hobby afterall

I'm completely aware, I have already done a custom loop, but if I can cut costs somewhere then that's always good

 

[Asperatis]

If you're doing a full loop instead of just the cpu, I'd swap the h220x with a small rad and a d5 pump. A single d5 is more than capable of doing the job and saves you the trouble of running two different ones.
You could go for dual pumps for redundancy, but then you'd have to use two identical ones if you want to maintain the same performance/flow rate

 

[PacificNic]

I've already got a D5, I just don't know that I can sell the H220-X to anyone so I was trying to cut the cost of buying another radiator, but that's a whole other ordeal. My question has been answered.

Thank you very much