Dual pumps

[Dudered7]

1. What is the reason for dual pumps in one loop?

2. What do they do extra when you have two of them than just one?

3. when do you know that you need two?

 

[ruthless_villain]

More pressure through the loop if your using lots of blocks, i think they force the water around faster, when your watercooling loads of stuff.

 

[tristan]

The other advantage is it just provides an extra level of peace of mind, if your away and one pump fails (although this is very rare) you will still have 1 pump to stop overheating, but mostly its just for some added pressure if you have a ton of blocks or radiators.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

its usefull for long loops, to keep all components coola and keep the flow going. also as mentioned some use it as a spare incase.

 

[Dudered7]

So if I am water cooling 2 MOBO blocks, 2 ram blocks, 2 graphics gards, and the cpu block and I have an external enclosure that is 1 foot away from the case that has 3 480mm rads would it need 2 pumps?

 

[tristan]

i would recomend 2 pumps if you are going to have that many blocks+rads.

 

[Dudered7]

Ok, thankyou and when you set them up do you run them off of one res and then y them together or one after another?

 

[tristan]

you can buy a dual pump top, or a bay res that will support 2 pumps.

like http://shop.xs-pc.com/xsp/XSPC-Acrylic-Dual-525-Reservoir-for-Two-Laing-DDCs_25431.html

 

[Dudered7]

Could you use tubing and go from res to pump 1 then to pump 2?

 

[ruthless_villain]

Could you use tubing and go from res to pump 1 then to pump 2?

yes but why the hell are you water cooling your RAM

 

[tristan]

why the hell are you water cooling your RAM

Although it doesn't offer any performance it can look quite cool if done well.

 

[Dudered7]

yes but why the hell are you water cooling your RAM

I am building an external unit so there will be no fans in the case.

 

[ruthless_villain]

I am building an external unit so there will be no fans in the case.

ram doesnt need cooling mate...

 

[tristan]

ram doesnt need cooling mate...

Agreed even without fans your ram will not be overheating, liquid cooling ram purely for aesthetics.

 

[Dudered7]

Even if you are overclocking Dominator GT ram wich comes with fans?

 

[ruthless_villain]

Even if you are overclocking Dominator GT ram wich comes with fans?

its BS you dont need them

 

[tristan]

Given that you have 2 ram blocks i am assuming that you are using the x79 platform, and the sb-e cpus often cant even do 2400mhz so you won't be able to get a big enough overclock to the point where the ram is overheating.

 

[wassupdoc]

Just seen an alphacool bay res with room for 4 D5 pumps.