Lmao1322

Hi,
I am still a noob for water cooling, I was wondering if I should make a second loop. So far I have a Swiftech MCP-655 pump, MCR220 rad, MCR 320 rad, cooling blocks for CPU, 2 280GTX h2OC video cards, and both chipsets.
I was wondering if I should get another pump and reservoir for this set up.

ira-k

If your looking for max CPU OC I would go ahead and do 2 loops..If your just a light OC'er just do one loop with both rads in it...

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Lmao1322

I was going for max OC since I have the 9775 chip, also do you think I need a reservoir with the second loop?
I was going to put the MCR320 on the CPU and the MCR220 on the cards and chipset, the cards spec say they need 236w dissipation!! Or should I do it vice a versa?

Thanks ira-k

ira-k

What size rad fans are you wanting to use with it? You would probably be better off using the 220 as a CPU rad and the 320 for GPU, the GPU's will run a little hotter...You can just use a t-line with one of them instead of a res, it will save a little money and wont take up as much space either...

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Lmao1322

I was going to use some sythe slipstream 120mm fans with them, I guessing I sould put the res on the MCR320 and just have a T line for the MCR220. I am thinking maybe of also doing a push/pull fan system once i find that thread again

ira-k

You mean a push-pull with shrouds? It helps, you might not really need to do it since you wont have a lot of load on each rad..Shrouds will make them more efficient since it pulls air over more of the rad if nothing else, it wont pack up with dust as fast.......

Martin did some testing on low fin per inch rads like the Swifty and push seemed to work a little better then pull with them...It was a TFC he tested on...Thicker higher fin per inch rads seem to like pull better, then of course push-pull was better on any of the rads...

Old gutted fans are the easiest shrouds to make...How To: Make any Sized shroud in 2 minutes

Or these are nice ones with a little more effort...How To: Build A Performance Shroud

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Lmao1322

Sweet!! don't think I can machine shop a high pro shroud!!
Thank again for the help!