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Originally posted by g.l.amour
i now have 2 rads in series, about 60cm height between all components. 3/8" fittings. so one can assume i got loads of backpressure for a 1048. after the glueing trick it works completely silent again. you'd have to lay your ear against the case to even hear the faint hum when the pc is not started. once the hard disks have spun up, no way to hear it.
judging the amount of crap tomshardware hooks up on the lightest eheim (cpu, gpu, chip, hddcooler, radiator, flowmeter...) i consider it as gmat says higly unlikely that your eheim 1048 is not up to the task of pumping around your water. since pc shops are not the most suitable to test your pump, you might want to goto an aquarium store, and have it checked there.
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I'd take Tom's articles with a grain of salt... He really isn't on top of this whole cooling stuff, we even discussed that!
We've already established that a higher flow is better, and I seriously doubt that a 1048 can feed all that without sacrificing some cooling performance.
It will work though, but probably wont be as efficient as it could be, with a more powerfull pump.
In short, most people here achieve an effective flow rate less than 100 gph. A few have more than 100 gph. I'm shooting for 200.
