Sin22 wrote:
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I bring you back to the thermal equilibrium statement i made earlier. The water will rise to a temperature that will be equilibrium to the amount of heat that is being dumped into it, and the amount of heat that is being removed by the radiator. Having a faster flow rate has no change on this at all.
Think of it as a F1 race car. In a 200hr time span it will lap a race course 200 times but if you take a point on the course and calculate the amount of time it spent there, it would be 200secs say. Now take a car which has half the speed. In a 200hr time span, it will lap the course 100 times. And in due course taking a point and the time spent there, it will also be 200secs.
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There is an added benefit to higher flow. Higher flow will make the waterblocks pump more heat into the water. I believe it has been said that a sweet spot with heatercores is at a certain flow. I do not remember where it was or what the value was. But I believe high flow blocks like the Swifteck models do indeed benefit from higher flow.
Thoughts?
BrianW
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Flow: Res, Pump, CPU watervlock, Y into both rads, both rads into res independently.
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