The pumps I plan on using are the MCP600's. The MCP600's only consume 8 watts of energy each. Even with three, that is a great deal lower than any large pump I know about.
Assumptions:
A system with a large 2 pass heater core (12.125" X 7.875"), and three blocks in series would have x flow and y pressure drop.
A system with say two pumps, one pumping coolant from the res to the heatercore back to the res, and the other pumping through the waterblocks(in series), would have higher flow and lower pressure drop in each run, as opposed to being all run in series.
Proposed Idea:
From the flow charts posted here, and my experimintation with my heatercore, I estimate approx 8-9 lpm. The blocks I plan to use are as follows: Cascade , Swiftech GPU block, and Swiftech NB block. Any one care to estimate flow in that loop with a MCP600? I may even consider three pumps. One for the rad, one for the cascade, and one for the GBU/NB.
Based on the fact that these pumps dump nominal heat into the water, can anyone tell me why the dual loop, dual pump system would not cool better?
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Water Cooled Inwin Q500 (Dual Rads: Rad1 = DTEK Pro Core | Rad2 = Blick Ice Estreme, Hydor L30, Dangerden Maze2, Bay Res Typhoon Reservoir, 1/2 " DD Tygon Thick Wall Hose).
Flow: Res, Pump, CPU watervlock, Y into both rads, both rads into res independently.
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Last edited by BrianW; 09-27-2003 at 10:08 PM.
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