water cool a dual athlon
 

OK, I'm a newbie to w/c. What would be the best way to set up w/c on a dual athlon? 2 rads in parallel, each going to a seperate water block or 1 huge rad splitting into parallel runs of tubing each going to a water block?

Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated.

2 rads is better than one if you can fit them, just make sure you get a decent pump :)

This might be overkill, but here's an idea I came up with for dual CPU cooling.
http://una.procooling.com/2for1deal.gif

If I were doing two CPU's i would get one pump: Eheim 1260 or 1060, Two heatercores, and 2 waterblocks and a res.

Run from res, to pump, split flow between two rads, then go serial to the water blocks, then back to the res. The water temp will only be like 2 deg celcius warmer in the second block and the dual rads will cool no problem.

Muchos gracias chaps. I was thinking something along the lines of badly-wired's suggestion with the following exeption. Instead of going from the dual rads to the waterblocks in serial, I was thinking of going in parallel. That way the two waterblocks would get water at approx the same temp. Would this be a better way or would the water pressure be too low and spend too much time in the waterblocks?

I should have plenty of room in the case as I am getting a YY cube (black of course!)

Una, with the layout you suggested would there not be a problem with cool water from the rad mixing with warm water from the blocks?

After the res the water should go to the rad and then to another res that give it to the pumps. With watercooling parts so cheap u might as well do two seperate loops.

http://www.1337info.com/images/dual%...%20cooling.JPG

[ 12-01-2001: Message edited by: OcPunK ]

Why use reserviors at all if using pumps that can work inline?
Your diagram is still one loop while going through the same rad, add another rad and completely separate them.

Edward

With 2 loops u need 2 rads, rads are alot bigger so they take more space then just having a third pump.

Thanks for all the help guys. All these ideas are very much appreciated.