Two Loops, One radiator

[bluehaze]

I would really like to see some sort of scientific data that shows the performance of a rad actually decreasing at some point where the flow gets too high. That really sounds bizare to me.

The thing about equalizing the temperature in the reservoir is what i'm most concerned with. Hopefully the guy (don't remember his nickname) who designed the typhoon III can comment on that.

How come i can't run two loops with only one pump out of the typhoon? Isn't both inlets and both outlets connected to the same "tank"?

It's physically possible to hook it up like that but it won't work.

As far as scientific data your on your own but just given the general nature of how a radiator works water passes through it and as it passes through it air blowing through the radiator absorbs the heat. So the faster the water moves through the radiator the less time their is for the air to dissapate that heat.

When everything is on one loop you have to find a happy medium within which the water moving through the blocks has doesn't have enough time to overheat and the water moving through the radiator has enough time to dissipate the heat.

With seperate loops you dont have this restriction and could individually tune the speed of water through the rad and the speed of water through the blocks.

Only reason I think this might work is because you would effectively have the loop being fed with water cooled via a different loop that has lower temperatures. Would be interested to see the results if anyone has ever tried this...probably doesn't work though or else the method would be all over the place by now