I'll add my $0.02 as well here. I don't dislike pelts, but i'll never use them in my setup since they're a waste of energy, and probably the most inneficient way of cooling your pc that there is. a couple of observations, if that is antifreeze or similar, you'll only need that if (as stated above) your coolant goes below freezing, which isn't going to happen unless you get a phase-change system, or if you mix metals, ie. copper and aluminum, which I would steer away from if at all possible. its just one more thing that can potentially go wrong with your setup. There have been numerous threads devoted to the pelt-chiller topic, do a search of the forum for some good debates. the general consensus seems to be that the best way to use pelts is to use watercooling, and stick them between the waterblock and the cpu. to improve that setup you have there, i'd replace the heatsink with a similarly sized radiator or heatercore, get rid of the pelts (saving yourself a LOT of energy). Also I wouldn't run the cpu block in parallel with the blocks on the vid card(that's what it looks like from what i can make of the mess of tubing you've got there), you're killing the flow rate to the cpu that way, which would explain the great temps for the vid card. your tubing and unit installation in general would be simpler that way. tubing from reservoir, to cpu, to radiator, to gpu, back to reservior.
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