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Originally Posted by pHaestus
Les: That's probably closer to right. but how many effective pipe length are added by all those 90 barrel connectors that seem to go hand in hand with the little tubing? Enough that probably a "high flow" system is closer to 1m tubing and a "german engineered low flow" one is closer to 3m. And that's assuming the same parts are used for both.
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pHaestus, you indirectly raise a point of consideration. How is the typical small tube system plumbed? I am guessing that many of these multi-block CPU/GPU/NB/HD/PSU small tube systems are not plumbed in series as is typical of larger tubes. I can even see some of what appears as gratuitous use of fittings on the surface being intentional to add restriction to one loop to tune the flow between parallel loops.
Anyone familar with the "German" plumbing arrangments? I would love to hear how they are routing flow for these totally W/C systems with little tubes and small pumps.
It is obvious that the "German" approach has been to maximize what they can do within limitations, while the "U.S." approach has been to refuse to accept any limitations. It is finesse v.s. brute force. Finesse will prevail up to a point, then it is overwhelmed. I think a more interesting question would be if the typical big tube system has 3-4x the flow, why isn't it doing better more than a degree or three?
I think looking for the differences in methods is likely to be more productive than cross-accusations of tube envy and tube compensation.