one BIG loop.

I was wondering if my pump MCP355 will be able to push the following:

1- 3 RADs Swiftech MCR-420, 320 and 220
2- 2 GPU AquaGrafx (GTX480) Water Blocks
3- CPU Heat Killer 3.0 Water Block
4- Swiftech North Bridge Cooler for the RIIE

THX

i bet you will get decent temperature or flow with all of these in one loop ,I would make two separate loops each with MCP355 with an EK top(maybe get DDC3.25) and put the CPU,Motherboard on a loop with the 320 and the 220 and put the 2 gtx 480 on the other loop with the 420

@ blaxtr3m3: Why the three different rads?? Are they assoiciated with specific components or just placed where they will fit?

@ seeka12: Sadly your sig is all so true and makes me wonder what we they are teaching in out schools. :(

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@ seeka12:makes me wonder we they are teaching in out schools. :(

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I am sorry but i didn't get it,what did you mean by what you have said above ?:shrug:

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I am sorry but i didn't get it,what did you mean by what you have said above ?:shrug:

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He's commenting on the sad state of the U.S. educational system. There are many ppl here in the U.S. that actually do believe that the Middle East is nothing more than a huge desert and is just barely out of the stone age as far as technology.

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He's commenting on the sad state of the U.S. educational system. There are many ppl here in the U.S. that actually do believe that the Middle East is nothing more than a huge desert and is just barely out of the stone age as far as technology.

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aha thanks for clarifying it :D,Actually this fact pisses me off because come one guys meaning that you are from the middle east doesn't mean you have no forms of Technology and actually the problem that the Americans faces toward the middle east and especially Egypt IMO is that they are taught that we have only monuments and desert and we ride camels(Actually i have never rode a camel :rofl:)

Blaxtr3m3, I think the MCP355 should be able to handle that, although I wouldn't expect a high flowrate.

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Blaxtr3m3, I think the MCP355 should be able to handle that, although I wouldn't expect a high flowrate.

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But would you expect the life time to be reduced ?

Bump!

if your going to put that much money into it, one more pump cant be too horrible of an investment

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if your going to put that much money into it, one more pump cant be too horrible of an investment

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I dont think it would lower your pumps life but I do think you would benefit much more from a 2nd pump in the loop.

A second pump is better or opting for a swiftech mcp655 is better?

Actually 2 mcp355 with/without EK or XSPC top would definitely be better than one mcp655

It'll handle it fine. Im using one less rad than you but with an EK DCP 4.0 pump which has less head pressure than the 355 and have no problems whatsoever.

Recommend parallel flow for your graphics blocks to reduce flow resistance.

Pic of it in practice, used 2 x tfc variable sli fittings to join the 2 blocks.

I am about to set up a very similar setup and I really want to go with one giant loop. I am going to have a i7 and 2 GTX 480s and was originally going to go with a 480 and a 240 radiator with (2) DDC-3.25 pumps with a EK Dual top block. I'm thinking about adding a 360 radiator on the back of my case.

If I were you, I'd get another pump if you plan on doing all that in 1 giant loop. With the money you've already invested in the hardware, buying another pump won't be that bad.

I temporarily ran 5970+5870+mb+980x on 1 pa120.3 and a mcp355. Temps were much better than expected and would have been fine for 24/7 as long as I wasn't going for very large overclocks (4ish ghz cpu and 1ghz per gpu was doable).

ok then, I will go with another mcp355 and join them together with the xspc acrilic top.

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/xsduactopfor.html

that's a good choice however if you can go with the EK dual top it would be a better idea as it is made of a better quality than the XSPC acrylic top http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=27149

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I dont think it would lower your pumps life but I do think you would benefit much more from a 2nd pump in the loop.

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I don't think so. It's been proven numerous times that higher flowrate does not give you any substantial gains.

Another thing I was wondering, what's the benefit of two loops? One loop gives you equal heat distribution across rads. And unless your CPU is at a brink of instability (as in 2-3 degrees more would give you crashes) or you're going for WR low temps, I don't see any benefit to more than one loop...

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that's a good choice however if you can go with the EK dual top it would be a better idea as it is made of a better quality than the XSPC acrylic top...

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So you're saying you've had both tops yourself and used both to come to that conclusion?

I have the EK Dual top and it seems like a lot of extra work was put into it considering it's just a top. Tons of extra hardware and brackets to mount in the 5.25" bay. I have not seen or used the XPSP dual acrylic top in person, but it looks like more attention to detail was put into the EK versus XSPC. Plus, EK makes way more blocks than XSPC if that puts their engineering capabilities in perspective.

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So you're saying you've had both tops yourself and used both to come to that conclusion?

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Actually it wasn't me but other users who used both and found the EK top to have better quality