Not sure if anyone has done this yet or not it was a long bus ride home today (stupid construction) Basically instead of putting multiple items in a loop but each item in a dedicated loop. Here is what my convoluted brain came up with. let's say you wanted to cool CPU GPU Chipset HDD You would have a large reservoir which has 4 pumps connected each powering their own loop. Then have each of those loops cool their device with a smaller but dedicated primary rad something like a thermalchill PA120.1 or120.2 then right before it returns to the res have one large rad like a thermalchill pa120.3. of course this kind of system would not be cost prohibitive and you would probably need to custom design the case but i was wondering if this would prefer extremely well or rather poorly.
To be honest I don't think there would be a decent performance increase over a normal loop. It might be worth it if you've got money to burn, but I doubt it tbh...
Imho I think that it would be a waste of effort and resources. I can't really tell how many radiators you're describing - 4 or 5 total? If you utilized 1 fan per radiator, you'd be worse off than if you just aimed a fan at each non CPU/GPU component.
it would be 5 rads and i didn't think it would do to good, i was just thinking about it on the bus ride home.
So where would the 5th rad be? It would have four inlets coupled together and a single outlet that leads to the res? lol, nice try though. There's a fine line between a great idea and a not so great idea.
yah not needed, you could calculate the energy being dumped into the water and 5 rads would be overkill not to mention bulky and expensive, besides it's not good to watercool HDD in my experience
It's a cost-benefit thing - by the time you get to multiple loops and 5 radiators, you're spending a metric shedload of money for a performance increase you will almost certainly be unable to measure. And that's ignoring the fact that the system will be so heavy you'll need to fit wheels and an engine to move it. Watercooling is great, but only up to a certain point. After that point, spending extra money on it is worthless - the benefit will be less than you would get by buying better silicon, or moving to Peltier/Phase Change cooling. IMHO any system using multiple loops or multiple radiators* has gone past that point. *Multiple radiators are arguably OK if your case is very restricted and the only way you can get enough cooling area is by fitting 2 120x1 radiators. That's the only exception I think worthwhile.
You could always be like this guy here: http://www.chilledpc.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=522 (hes an idiot)
Just spotted his initial plan for installing the radiators: Pure comedy gold. I love it when people spend hundreds of quid to reduce their performance!
Thanks, but I'd rather poke my eyes out with hot knitting needles Seriously, people like him make me wonder if the creationists have a point - there is no way natural selection should have come up with someone that dumb.
What you're proposing is a simple multi-loop scenario. Many have done it in the past, just not to the point of a separate loop per item. The only thing that makes your idea slightly off-the-wall is a shared reservoir across all loops, but in effect that negates a lot of the benefits of separate loops - ie: depending on the efficiency of the radiators, you may as well be running a single loop as the heatload is distributed across the loops at the reservoir. The ENTIRE heatload isn't removed by the rads in a single pass basically... it's never entirely removed... Better to have completely independant loops with nothing (in terms of the watercooling components) shared... with heatloads split evenly between each loop... such as http://www.over-clock.com/ivb/index.php?showtopic=19918
