Water Cooling Direction

[PakaPaka]

What is the direction of flow in water cooling system?

I set up my like this:
pump->radiator->water block on cpu->water tank

am i set up it like it should be?
i hope yeah...

thax :)

[BlueAqua]

I think that's the ideal setup. There are a few different ways but that should yield the best results.

[RealRedRaider]

What is the direction of flow in water cooling system?

I set up my like this:
pump->radiator->water block on cpu->water tank

am i set up it like it should be?
i hope yeah...

thax :)

That's the prefered loop...:up:

[PakaPaka]

oh lucky.. i hate to change things in the WC system..
today i change the pump, noisy and not working, its home-made WC system so its pump in the water (in the water tank).


however, if i change the setup to this:
pump->water block->radiator->water tank
there will be more good results then my set up like it now?

*sorry on my English :P

[Nate P.]

I believe on impingement blocks (Storm, maybe Supreme?) it's better to go directly to the block from the pump... not exactly sure though, someone else will have to verify.

[RealRedRaider]

I prefer going to rad first, impingement or not...:up:

[Nate P.]

I prefer going to rad first, impingement or not...:up:
What's your reasoning behind that?

[PakaPaka]

Keep the set up like it now?
no change anything?

tanx :)

continue with your discussion, don't let me bother you :D

[HESmelaugh]

For temperatures, it makes next to no difference. For pressure, I have no clue on how that affects anything.

Ideally, the water should do one clean loop, i.e. flow all the way up and then all the way back down, not zig-zag up, then down again, then up again etc. Make sense?

[T_Flight]

What's your reasoning behind that?

My thinking is that it gets rid of the heat dump from the pump before the water gets to your CPU?

Is this correct?

[Boogerlad]

Any way. The shorter the tubing route the better.

[Pedalmonkey]

Minus needing the res feeding the pump to prevent cavitation, which it looks like you've got that covered if your using a submersed pump, it will make no difference in your overall temps where things are. Some might argue that you'd get better temps with the rad right b4 the block but the temps even out in the system relatively quickly. others would argue that the pump right b4 a block like an EK supreme that depends on pump pressure to work optimally is the best but whats the difference in pressure really going to be. Heck it could even be worse b/c you would have to possibly run longer lengths of tubing.

In short minus making sure the pump is fed, shorter tubing runs are the way to go over anything else IMO.

[aspire.comptech]

Doesn't really matter on loop order unless were talking about highly restrictive blocks that benefit being right after the pump.

Otherwise the loop temp gets to be basically constant after a short time.