njdad61

I've got a decent water cooling setup right now but I was thinking about adding a few components. The end result would be a loop with the following(in order):

Reserator 1 V2>>>MCP350 pump>>>Q6600(3.2GHz)>>>Northbridge>>>Southbridge>> >8800GTX(600/950)>>>120mm Radiator + Fan>>>back to Reserator 1 V2

Would the best configuration be to put the MCP 350 before all of the water blocks or somewhere in the middle? Are there any other changes anyone would make? Thanks!!!!!

DuckieHo

Southbridge cooling is completely pointless. You can't overclock your SATA controller or PCI cards.

A Reserator 1 V2 + a single rad cannot handle your heatload.

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jph1589

I always preferred having the pump in front of the radiator. That way the cooler water out of the radiator would go directly to the cpu block. It is especially helpful when you have an overloaded loop which I think you know already, yours is.

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njdad61

My current configuration is the Reserator to CPU to Northbridge to 8800GTX and the temps stay way lower than air cooling at idle and especially under load. The flow just seems really low. I need to add a southbridge cooler because I have a block on my northbridge and my board is an EVGA 680i SLI, so my SB is naked right now without the stock heatpipe/heatsink/fan... I broke off the heatsink and left the pipe to reattach it to the SB but the temps are still higher than normal (60/70C)

jph1589

Your first post 28 minutes ago said you were going reserator to pump to cpu. My point was it should be pump to reserator to cpu.

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By-Tor

I would not WC the NB or SB, buy a nice HSF for the NB. That single 120mm Rad. will not cool much of that loop, or even just the CPU or GPU. I would grab a 360mm rad. if you are putting them in the same loop.

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njdad61

Because the reserator has a built-in weak pump wouldn't it actually slow the flow if you put a stronger pump before and not after it?

By-Tor

I would think the flow would slow due to the weaker pump.

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jph1589

I guess I assumed you had removed that pump since you were running another one. I don't think the combination of the two is a good idea no matter which order they are in. If you are having flow problems, that probably has something or everything to do with it.

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njdad61

My main question is if an MCP350 would have enough head/flow rate to push through 4 blocks and a 120mm radiator to get back to the Reserator and the weaker pump? And my NB is already WCed so I need to do something with my SB...