Two Reservoirs?

[Deshman]

I've just gone and bought myself a drive bay reservoir but my Thermaltake kit has a smaller reservoir attached to the side of the pump, is there any advantage or disadvantage to keeping both reservoirs or am I better off just having one?

 

[FarFarAway]

Attach the pipes straight to the TT pump imo

 

[Deshman]

The pipes from the drive bay or are you saying don't use the drive bay at all?

 

[FarFarAway]

Use the drive bay and not the TT one.

2 reasons I say this:

A: I think that the TT res is just push fit onto the pump which I wouldn't trust so much

B: The drive bay res is bound to look better and at least then you can get rid of the additional TT res next to the pump and save space

 

[Deshman]

Nice one cheers man. Think you're right about the push to fit but I'll check when I take it out.

Duke mentioned that drive bay res's let air into your pipes easier than a normal res, are they known for this?

 

[FarFarAway]

Not if you do the loop properley. The only thing I would be careful of is how the bay res would get water into the pump...might be worth draining and checking out

 

[Deshman]

What do you mean by get the water into the pump?

The loop currently is Rad > Res > Pump > CPU > Rad

The shortest path (as mentioned in a previous thread) with a GPU block would be:

Rad > Res > Pump > GPU > CPU > Rad

but there may be a couple of corners that I'm not sure the tube will bend on.