I'm may be getting the resevoir seen here: http://www.svc.com/ae-fill-bleed-reservoir.html My couple concerns about this one though - I can't find measurments(xoxide says it will fit in an 80mm blow hole?) and space is kinda tight in my case. Second, related to first, is the elbow barbs - I always hear that they restrict flow which is understandable but how much. Would I notice any difference by using elbow barbs, higher temp, more noise...? Does anyone here have any experience with this res?
1/2" tubing and swify mcp600. the system is all 1/2" and I've got Polarflo blocks(CPU, GPU, and Chipset) and a BIX rad.
It will restrict flow and increase the temps. Couldn't say by how much. If you can avoid it, it would be best. If you can't then nevermind, it won't be a drastic increase it temps.
Imo it will make FA difference on the resevoir, as long as you have your pump straight after the resevoir and eveverything else inbetween then it'll be fine. Resevoirs pretty much kill all flow anyway.
Thanks for the replies. I searched around for a bit and found a few tube-like res's that look like they'll be better. Something about having the inlet and outlet on opposite sides like that didn't sit right.
Another option is to go to www.mcmasters.com and under the copper fittings area you'll find what are called "long sweep 90's). Long sweep 90's give approx 25% of the resistence to flow as compared with a hard right 90 of plastic does. Or you can make your own long sweep 90 by just going to your local hardware supplier and asking for some nice 5/8" soft annelled copper water line which can be bent with ease for the same purpose. The 5/8" is easy to get 1/2" ID Tygon over & the slightly larger ID tube will keep head loss to a minimum.
