Quote Originally Posted by Herc130 View Post
I wouldn't run it one pump for two loops, but two loops with two pumps each with this res/top would be tempting for my motherboard loop/s. I like a back up pump on all loops and was considering running a loop for the NB/SB and a loop for memory and mosfets.....but no way would I do that because of how many pumps I'd need. This is a very nice solution. Will use the same two pumps I had planned for everything on the motherboard other then cpu/gpu and split it into two loops and still have back up pumpage. Only problem is I run DDC's....hmm oh well
I used to say the same thing lol. Keeping in mind T3 is NOT designed to be the worlds fastest D5 top, look at it a different way. Years back when DD and a few others were breaking out with the MAZE the CPU was much hotter then video cards of the time. My Matrox G400 had a tiny little passive heat sink. Now its reversed...cards are getting hotter and hotter and CPU's are using less and less power.

Do you pump water from a single loop through your quad core CPU, then into and through one or two video cards? My thinking was that yes you are going to loose some pressure splitting the loops but your pumping cooler water into your components. If the point is to have the worlds most powerful D5 great, I can eek out 1% gains as well as the next guy. For most though the goal is more cooling efficiency. Even if you split your favorite D5 top into two loops using a manifold, some Y's, T's, L,s etc you loose that small % of gain over T3 because you get shorter cleaner runs...

Again, I was just trying a new approach.