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Unread 02-12-2003, 09:48 AM   #14
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Those disconnects are not spring actuated, which is good, though due to the restriction they give, you'd essentially be limiting yourself to a 3/8" loop for three blocks and a PSU. That is bad news.

What I was talking about with splitting loops would be to keep the interior hose in your cooling case at around 3/4", and then splitting in into multiple 1/2" or 3/8" loops for various parallel loops. Since you are cooling so many components, it would destroy your flow to put them all in series, and it would significantly heat the water before it got to the last block.

I would suggest three loops: one would be to the CPU, one would go to the GPU/NB, and one would be strictly for the PSU. Just run two 3/4" lines up into your case through the back, and then use splitters to split off to the various loops, merging back into a single 3/4" line for the way back. The other benefit is that this will lower overall system resistance. You could feasable do this with 5/8" ID line as well, but, um, you're going to be cooling alot of stuff. What you're doing is essentially exactly what I'll be doing once a third PC is added to my "rackmount" system ... except that all of your blocks are in one case.
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