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Originally posted by DMOS
This shows why I'm in electrical engineering, and not mech, but why would you avoid the RXT like the plague? Does that change when you go to a high flow block like a Swiftech MCW-5002?
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Ok, bad electronics analogy time.
The RZ is like a 10V battery with an internal resistance of 20 Ohms.
The RX is like a 1V battery with an internal resistance of 1 Ohm.
A state of the art waterblock (plus the rest of the loop) is like a 100 Ohm resistor.
You will get a higher current (flowrate) through the 100 Ohm loop using the 10V/20 Ohm battery. (0.083 Amps)
The 1V/1 Ohm battery will only put 0.01 Amps through the loop.
Now if your loop load was 1 Ohm, you would get 0.5 Amps out of the 1V battery vs the 10V battery's 0.48 Amps.
The MCW5002 is still too high in resistance for the RX pump to be the best choice. The standard version (not RX or RZ) would likely be best with the MCW5002. (Depends on the rest of the loop.)