The manifold has a devider. it has a hot and cold side. On the side that feeds the block with a 1/2 hose from the pump that then goes to each block via 3/8 hose, cpu/chipset/video. and then the return is the same way. This system has more than enough flow did you happen to see the specs on the pump? The problem is that the vapochill couldn't disipate the heat for the flow rate that is in the system.
I have since sold the cpu/vid blocks and the vapochill and now am trying to figure out what the best way to implament my parallel setup in my current mid tower case, using a 80mm radiator after each block before it goes back into the manifold and gets recirculated.
The pump has 1/2" fittings
The Res has 1/2" fittings
The manifold has 1/2" main fittings and then each hot/cold fitting is 3/8"
The Water blocks have 3/8" fittings.
This system works great but it pulled to much heat from all the components and centralized it. The vapochill just didn't have enough power to disipate that heat. I was toying with the idea of putting the manifold into a cooling and then filling the cooling with ice but then that wasn't a good idea because the ice then would melt and I would have to replace it. That is why now I'm looking at 3 sperate 80mm radiators. Or one big 3 120mm radiator, the one that I was looking at said that it was able to disipate 550watts but that was @ 10c ambient.
So tell me what you guys think.
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