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Originally Posted by ChielScape

one one side, parallel reduces restriction, but on the other, if your coolant circulation velocity decreases enough, your flow will turn laminar, so youd need a good pump either way.
i'd just put em in series.
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How is that bad?... I see laminar flow only helping a radiator given flow is maintained
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Originally Posted by pauldovi

How do you figure?
Laminar flow would be highly desirable in a coolant loop. It would eliminate stagnation and 0 velocity rotational points.
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Originally Posted by rpm666

I vote parallel.
I'll be testing out the parallel radiators here next weekend. Splitting the loop into A and B, each A and B hits a pump, goes into Rad A and Rad B, then join together just before hitting the CPU. Right now heat is not an issue since I mounted a triple rad outside - idle 10C load 32C (different project).
In the weeks to come I want to have both my main rigs on one large loop with 3 rads, 4 pumps, and a lotta blocks with many things in parallel.
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Originally Posted by nafljhy

i would say parallel only and only if the restriction of your gpu block and your cpu block have around the same restriction. if you don't well one is going to get more flow than the other.
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Why would anyone in their right mind put blocks of different restriction in parallel?
Anyhow I was going to leave blocks in series, rads in parallel. The only thing that makes any sense to have in parallel would be GPU blocks to reduce restriction from CPU block.
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Originally Posted by pauldovi

The water should go from the pump to the CPU to the GPU then spilt into 2 hoses and go to the radiators and then back to one hose and into the pump.
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Yup.
What I was thinking was more like this though.... CPU block split into two, identical GPU's in parallel then the outs of those GPU's go to a rad, then the rads combine back to one line to the res/pump
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Originally Posted by Hondacity

i'd say series..if they're arranged in parallel..the lowest restriction rad will have the most flow..while the other rad..will become stagnant...
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