The Caravels and pump are here. The fans pump air like crazy (do you know how fast a desk can be cleared of paperwork? I do, now ... ), and they are not quiet by no stretch of the imagination. They are like a middle/loud HSF, or a vacuum at about 100 ft. I'm going to set up a fan controller tonight in a non-regulated power strip that should allow me to quiet these mofos down. With how much air they pump, I should be able to slow them significantly (making them virtually silent in the confines of the cooling box) while retaining excellent air flow between the two of them.
The pump might take a little longer before I have real statistics on it since I won't be ordering the second case/block/clamp until tomorrow (it'll be complete by the middle of next week, or faster if Becooling is on the ball).
I may set up a dummy second loop with my BIX in place of the second water block tonight if I'm really bored, and string the new pump into it. It'll allow me to see what kind of flow to expect out of the new pump, as well as sound check it. The only thing I dread about that is the risk of miscutting the tubing (I don't want to order any more!!!), and having to drain and purge the system, however easy that may be. Plus, it'll throw off my temp measurements (they'll be completely invalid for this test) since instead of a second block adding about 60W of heat into the system, I'll have a radiator pulling some out. This will give me a chance to check the validity of the much maligned bypass theory, though. By design, the entire loop should now be at about 1" ID except for the individual parallel loops. This pump better not suck. No, wait, I mean, aw, f*ck it.
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