STH10 Water Loop Plan V2 (need feedback)

Remove the 6fans between compartments.
Make the rads blow air from outside to inside.
Make the top cover ventilated instead of solid so that the hot air from rads can escape there.

All 3 compartments now have positive air.
The radiators don't have to suck hot air from inside the case anymore.
6 fans less is less noise and less wires.

If you wish some direct airflow over the motherboard you can use mac-114 or mac-115



You can also avoid a sharp 180° bend at the bottom if you install gpu's in parallel.



Hope I stirred up some new imagination

I think the loop would be easier to design if you had one of your rads in the top compartment and one in the bottom. This way you Can have Res>Pump>Rad>CPU> rad> GPU>Res.
I actually had a similar plan for my Th10, but decided to, instead of of two 680's, get one 690, to limit the restriction added by the extra block.

also I don't believe the STH10 comes with 480 mounts by default.
It supports 560 rads in those top compartments

You are against having a top mounted PSU?

I know the layout of the case, I was really trying to point out that the mounts aren't included

The reason I suggested having the rads on separate sides (top and bottom) was because I personally don't like having all the blocks before a single radiator is flown through.. I know they say loop order doesn't matter besides res>pump, but I don't like the idea.

I'm going to disagree with you Forrester since loop order doesn't matter anymore. Only important rule that remains is to place the pump after the reservoir (only important if the reservoir has any air in it).
For instance when people stress test serial gpu vs parallel gpu you see that when using serial, the 2nd gpu's temperature is 0°C to 2°C higher than the first one. That's how little temperature blocks add these days.

Loop order used to be important in 'the old days' when we used weak pumps and overclocks were heat limited.
GPU's have been overclock limited by the hardware for a long time allready. And now cpu's have also reached the fab size where the architecture is the limit and not the temperature anymore.
Pentium4 you could get a 100% higher overclock going from watercooling to phase change. Today on i7 you see 20%-25% higher overclock from water to ln². High end air cooling and prefab water systems like Corsair Hxxx are today very close to reaching the same overclocks as custom water cooling. So imo watercooling has become more focused on silence instead of purely performance.



What I meant was this Neo Zuko

It will prevent you from having to use a 180° bend at the bottom gpu to go back up. The mcp35x2 is more than strong enough to still have enough flow with 2 parallel linked gpu blocks. (when using parallel flows and a weak pump, it has been noticed that in some full cover blocks there are 'dead pockets' which receive very few flow)

My drawing is a side view of tubing in Serial setup and Parallel setup

Almost forgot an extra hint.

If you go parallel, you can install on one of the bottom ports a valve like this

This will make draining the loop very easy.
1- Take out plug from the reservoir so the loop can pressurise with air
2- Turn the valve open
3- Loop will run almost completely empty in 30seconds