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Long Haired Git · 01-04-2006, 02:05 PM

1. Mirroring the pump around and running it as you describe last of all sounds good.
2. Do not put the T in any high pressure area of the flow, so not between pump outlet and the storm, and I'd avoid between the storm and the GPU block. Ideally it goes before the pump inlet, but I suppose between the GPU block and radiator would be best.
3. Putting the pump on the floor of the cage may allow you to run pump -> rad -> cpu block -> gpu block -> T -> pump which means the coolest water gets to the CPU. Sure, only 1/3rd of one degree, but cooler none the less.
4. Re turbulence at pump inlet, I seem to recall most flow is laminar within 5 or so (less than 10, but can't recall exact number) tubing diamaters of the turbulence cause. So, for 10mm ID tubing that's 50mm from the pump inlet. That's for zero effect, so closer than that causes some effect up to a maximum effect when the T would abutt the pump inlet.

01-04-2006, 02:05 PM	#8
Long Haired Git Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sydney, Oz Posts: 336	Re: HELP! T okay over video card? 1. Mirroring the pump around and running it as you describe last of all sounds good. 2. Do not put the T in any high pressure area of the flow, so not between pump outlet and the storm, and I'd avoid between the storm and the GPU block. Ideally it goes before the pump inlet, but I suppose between the GPU block and radiator would be best. 3. Putting the pump on the floor of the cage may allow you to run pump -> rad -> cpu block -> gpu block -> T -> pump which means the coolest water gets to the CPU. Sure, only 1/3rd of one degree, but cooler none the less. 4. Re turbulence at pump inlet, I seem to recall most flow is laminar within 5 or so (less than 10, but can't recall exact number) tubing diamaters of the turbulence cause. So, for 10mm ID tubing that's 50mm from the pump inlet. That's for zero effect, so closer than that causes some effect up to a maximum effect when the T would abutt the pump inlet. __________________ Long Haired Git "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." (Prof. Gene Spafford) My Rig, in all its glory, can be seen best here AMD XP1600 @ 1530 Mhz \| Soyo Dragon + \| 256 Mb PC2700 DDRAM \| 2 x 40 Gb 7200rpm in Raid-0 \| Maze 2, eheim 1250, dual heater cores! \| Full specifications (PCDB)