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Blackeagle · 11-08-2002, 08:20 AM

Yeah Murray,

I know what you mean, even in this beast of a case and with both the lower drive cages out it will still eat up 40% of available space. but the MD-30 is no larger in that respect than a MD-20.

In regards to the flow routing, I see the point several of you guys have made in referance to not depriving the CPU of any flow. And have several thougths.

I'm going to try it several ways when I get it built, won't cost anything more than time and a bit of tubing.

I've thought of one thing that I'd missed up to now. With Cathar's block with it's dual outlets there would be no Y needed to do as BigBen2k & Maddog suggested in splitting the flow to both the NB and the Gfx as it leaves the CPU, just run one of the outlets to each, then lines coming off those blocks go direct to the air trap/res. This would be a short dual loop and a tight one with only ONE xtra fitting (xtra barb at res, compared to running all in series) as the line out of the res would restore the flow to a large line again. Nice.

With the Atlantis I'd still have a Y and a extra fitting at the res. But with this arrangment I'd be able to send more cooant to the Gfx vs. the NB by having a offset Y with a .5" line going to the Gfx and a 3/8" line to the NB. Even with a added fitting I may like this even better than above, as the Gfx needs more of the flow by far vs. a NB. Nice part of making the custom Y here would be that I could play with the offset Y's smaller outlet to the NB within that Y by drilling a undersize outlet hole in the NB side of the offset, 1/4 or 5/16" to force more to the Gfx and all I'd have to do to tune it is change the size of that restricted outlet.

This could get to be real fun. (someone at this point should call 911, he's lost it ! ! Another one around the bend and over the top !)

11-08-2002, 08:20 AM	#112
Blackeagle Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: U.S.A = Michigan Posts: 1,243	Yeah Murray, I know what you mean, even in this beast of a case and with both the lower drive cages out it will still eat up 40% of available space. but the MD-30 is no larger in that respect than a MD-20. In regards to the flow routing, I see the point several of you guys have made in referance to not depriving the CPU of any flow. And have several thougths. I'm going to try it several ways when I get it built, won't cost anything more than time and a bit of tubing. I've thought of one thing that I'd missed up to now. With Cathar's block with it's dual outlets there would be no Y needed to do as BigBen2k & Maddog suggested in splitting the flow to both the NB and the Gfx as it leaves the CPU, just run one of the outlets to each, then lines coming off those blocks go direct to the air trap/res. This would be a short dual loop and a tight one with only ONE xtra fitting (xtra barb at res, compared to running all in series) as the line out of the res would restore the flow to a large line again. Nice. With the Atlantis I'd still have a Y and a extra fitting at the res. But with this arrangment I'd be able to send more cooant to the Gfx vs. the NB by having a offset Y with a .5" line going to the Gfx and a 3/8" line to the NB. Even with a added fitting I may like this even better than above, as the Gfx needs more of the flow by far vs. a NB. Nice part of making the custom Y here would be that I could play with the offset Y's smaller outlet to the NB within that Y by drilling a undersize outlet hole in the NB side of the offset, 1/4 or 5/16" to force more to the Gfx and all I'd have to do to tune it is change the size of that restricted outlet. This could get to be real fun. (someone at this point should call 911, he's lost it ! ! Another one around the bend and over the top !)