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Ewan · 10-23-2003, 09:36 AM

Yeah, unfortunately your idea is no good at all. It's the worst of all worlds infact.

First off, your cooling will be much worse. That's because cooling is driven by temperature difference. You are feeding your CPU with water that has only been partialy cooled by the radiator. You are feeding the CPU with water that has a temperature somewhere in between what's coming out of the radiator and out of the CPU. The water coming out of the radiator is naturaly much colder than the reservoir water so it makes much more sense to simply feed that into the CPU. The colder the water going into the CPU, the colder the CPU.
The same effect happens to the radiator. Instead of having warm water from the CPU going in which it then cools, it has your sorta warm water from the reservoir going in, which reduces the temperature difference and makes the radiator less effective.
So that's BAD no 1.

BAD no 2 is that you have two pumps and you should put them in series. If you have them in series then you get more pressure and flow which will improve your cooling and give you redundancy if one breaks down.

10-23-2003, 09:36 AM	#5
Ewan Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 30	Yeah, unfortunately your idea is no good at all. It's the worst of all worlds infact. First off, your cooling will be much worse. That's because cooling is driven by temperature difference. You are feeding your CPU with water that has only been partialy cooled by the radiator. You are feeding the CPU with water that has a temperature somewhere in between what's coming out of the radiator and out of the CPU. The water coming out of the radiator is naturaly much colder than the reservoir water so it makes much more sense to simply feed that into the CPU. The colder the water going into the CPU, the colder the CPU. The same effect happens to the radiator. Instead of having warm water from the CPU going in which it then cools, it has your sorta warm water from the reservoir going in, which reduces the temperature difference and makes the radiator less effective. So that's BAD no 1. BAD no 2 is that you have two pumps and you should put them in series. If you have them in series then you get more pressure and flow which will improve your cooling and give you redundancy if one breaks down.