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Unread 09-09-2004, 06:38 AM   #3
2Busy
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Default Parallel or serial on cores?

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Originally Posted by Etacovda
In series, i take it you're talking about air flow (you said stacking)

Its best to go in parallel - your second rad would be effectively useless, as the first rad will heat up the air, reducing the effectiveness drastically.


'plumb in series, airflow in parallel'
My bad. Stacking as in one sits on the bottom of the case, the second sits on top of it vertically. Like so

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IIII---------------------from cpu
IIII upper core
IIII-----> to lower core
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----
IIII<----from upper core
IIII lower core
IIII------> to pump intake
----

With this configuration I can run 4 120mm fans, and my thought was to reduce
fan speed to lower noise while still maintaining air flow per surface area of core equal to that of a similar setup with 1 core and 2 fans.
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