[Worklog] sNiPeRbOb's BIG, KOOL, BLACK and BLUE (Formerly Koolance Rebuild)

[sniperbob]

Yes i know i know. I am going to catch some hot air for building with Koolance, but i have my reasons.



I became the lucky owner of a loaded Koolance PC2-901bw server tower case with integrated Koolance cooling components. It came with the older CPU-300 style cpu waterblock, and two GPU-180 blocks (one for the Radeon 9800xt, another for the mobo chipset)


Here are the specs of what will be used:
Asus SK8N mobo
AMD Athlon 64fx (socket 940)
Corsair 1GB DDR RAM
ATi Radeon 9800XT 256mb AGP gpu (also considering a Sapphire 3850 512mb)

I have recently ordered from Koolance:
CPU-340 waterblock
80mm stock fan grilles (clearance woo!)
1/4 I.D. UV tubing
Koolance g1/4 compression barbs
1.120 Koolance radiator (as secondary radiator)
I have also completely gutted my case and started some mod-work here and there.






I have cut out and filed down all of the stamped fan grilles in the case. I also primed and painted the entire inside chassis of the case flat black, to match the outer appearance of the case and to simplify things color wise.

Now a couple questions. Would it make more of a temperature difference to run the loop like this:

Pump/res-3.80 rad-cpu block-1.120 rad-chipset block-gpu block-back to pump/res

Or would it make more sense to route the loop directly from one rad to the next, then on through all of the blocks?