First time water cooling

[airdeano]

wtf? read before flame...

Tom has mentioned this countless times; The order of the parts in a loop does NOT matter, you should always go for the cleanest looking loop

Not true.

There will actually be very little difference in temperatures between the inlet and outlet of each component whether it's a rad or block. Unless your flow rate was extremely slow you are mistaken.

not going to argue.. but if you really read the post...

...but it'll be the decision of a clean and tidy look

Toms says for a couple of degress it isnt worth it to have hoses running all about.
just make it look tidy.
i found 7° difference between GPU>CPU>RAD vs GPU>RAD>CPU due to a monster
1100 overclock on GPU so, yeah it did in my case.. so thats why i prefaced the comment
'cuz i knew id get flamed.. and no there isnt anything wrong with my dual D5 flow-rate.
3.5gpm FR is well in spec. just hot clocks on a bonzai run.. geeze. and it still looks just
fine and tidy...

airdeano

 

[PapaSmurf6768]

A problem that constantly emerges in this forum is "Well Tom said this" and "Tom said that." Tom's a great guy with a ton of experience in this kind of thing, but airdeano has a bunch of experience as well. If he says he saw a significant drop in temps by changing the loop order, well then that's that. :handshake:

 

[B NEGATIVE]

A problem that constantly emerges in this forum is "Well Tom said this" and "Tom said that." Tom's a great guy with a ton of experience in this kind of thing, but airdeano has a bunch of experience as well. If he says he saw a significant drop in temps by changing the loop order, well then that's that. :handshake:

This ^^

Loop order can make a difference depending on the components used,not much,but it is there.


Tom is not the be all-end all.