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shiltz · 04-28-2003, 09:53 AM

I had a few more questions that I wanted to ask people more experienced with water cooling first before I did it.

first is I want to water cool my video card as well as my CPU's, however i'm using a YY cube case which has very little clearance over the tops of my expantion cards so I can't run the lines that way and will have to run them towards the front of the case around the card that way, what I wanted to know is if anyone knows how easy is it to change the fittings on the Danger Den GeForce4/Radeon 9000/9700 Pro Block, are the just threaded in with teflon tape and easy to remove or something else since i'll need to change one fitting with a 90deg fitting?

second question is is there any place that sells hard drive water cooling blocks with 1/2" fittings, the entire system is gona be 1/2 but the only HD block I could find was 3/8 and I don't really want to restrict the flow down to 3/8 at the HD's if I don't have to, also if there are no 1/2 ones how much would resticting it down to the 3/8 effect the overall performance of the system?

third question is I was planning on going with the Black Ice Xtreme 2 radiator and running it reservoir > pump > radiator > CPU 1 > CPU 2 > video card > HD > reservior, would I be better off getting 2 Black Ice Xtreme's instead and running it reservoir > pump > radiator 1 > CPU 1 > video card > radiator 2 > CPU 2 > HD > reservoir, or would it really not make a significant difference either way, eventualy i'm planning on going back to a single CPU on my next uprade as well so if it's not gona make a significant difference i'd rather just use the single radiator since it's easier, but wanted to check here first.

04-28-2003, 09:53 AM	#1
shiltz Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: usa Posts: 84	few more questions I had a few more questions that I wanted to ask people more experienced with water cooling first before I did it. first is I want to water cool my video card as well as my CPU's, however i'm using a YY cube case which has very little clearance over the tops of my expantion cards so I can't run the lines that way and will have to run them towards the front of the case around the card that way, what I wanted to know is if anyone knows how easy is it to change the fittings on the Danger Den GeForce4/Radeon 9000/9700 Pro Block, are the just threaded in with teflon tape and easy to remove or something else since i'll need to change one fitting with a 90deg fitting? second question is is there any place that sells hard drive water cooling blocks with 1/2" fittings, the entire system is gona be 1/2 but the only HD block I could find was 3/8 and I don't really want to restrict the flow down to 3/8 at the HD's if I don't have to, also if there are no 1/2 ones how much would resticting it down to the 3/8 effect the overall performance of the system? third question is I was planning on going with the Black Ice Xtreme 2 radiator and running it reservoir > pump > radiator > CPU 1 > CPU 2 > video card > HD > reservior, would I be better off getting 2 Black Ice Xtreme's instead and running it reservoir > pump > radiator 1 > CPU 1 > video card > radiator 2 > CPU 2 > HD > reservoir, or would it really not make a significant difference either way, eventualy i'm planning on going back to a single CPU on my next uprade as well so if it's not gona make a significant difference i'd rather just use the single radiator since it's easier, but wanted to check here first.