How many loops?
 

I'm just full of... questions.

I'm planning a dual processor system and want to cool both processors as well as the GPU on my vid card and the north bridge if possible. Could that all be kept cool on a single loop? ...Or should it be divided up? I'm thinking either two loops with a processor and a chip set on each, or three with a dedicated loop for each processor and a third loop for the chip sets. Any ideas/comments?

How about if I put pelts on the two processors (leufken pel-blocks?). Would that change your recomendation?

Thanks in advance for any aid provided.

depending on your case you can do quite a few differant things, you could have one pump feeding two radiators, each radiator outlet goes to the two cpu's, then one goes to the NB, one to the GPU, then back to the pump.

Or you could do from the pump to the rad, to a Y to the cpus, then back to the pump, and have another loop with a small pump and small rad for your GPU and NB

I think the obvious question here is how much room do you have, and also if you can afford to buy 2 pumps, 3 rads, or whatever

Right...

Well, I tend to build very practical machines. They OC a little and perform very well, but this time I wanna build a real "enthusiasts" computer. We're talking active cooling, window mods, etc... I don't want to say that price isn't an object, but I will say that I am going to keep a healthy budget on the project.

As for space... I'm looking at a bunch of cases right now. The top two on my list right now are the Chenbro Echo and the Addtronics WTX8500. Both have a fairly nice amount of room. I'm leaning towards the Chenbro pretty heavily.

you could probably do two heater cores and a small radiator in either of those without too much of an issue, and have one large pump for the cpu loop and a small pump for the gpu and nb loop

Why not go all inline? Get a good pump like a 1250 and just do everything in 1/2in. Flow will be so high your coolant won't be heating up measurably, even with 3 or 4 blocks in series.

Make sure your rad can handle it though.

I'm a newbie, but I think I understand the difference between a loop and an inline system. I could be wrong... so here is a total newbie type question.

Could I run two or three "seperate" loops off of a single resivoire? I'm guessing the resivoire would have to be pretty big.

What I'm talking about is basically having one big resivoire and then two pumps pumping water from it to two seperate locations on seperate lines. Of course each would need it's own radiator.

Make any sense?

yeah nothing wrong with that aristotle, you could even run one pump, and have it go into a series of Y's to do whatever you want