Quote Originally Posted by troelsm View Post
The difference in temperature of the water going into CPU0 and coming out again is very minimal. Probably something around 0.3 celcius at max. The order of your components in a seriel loop doesn't really matter much.

About doing two loops. Even though none of the 3 components are very restrictive the radiator still benefits from higher flow rates. Unless you could max out your pumps flowrate with the seriel loop i'd think you would get an (tiny) improvement by splitting it up to two loops using the T3. If i understand the principles of the T3 that should give you more flowrate through each loops than you had in the one seriel loop. Since your blocks aren't very flow dependant it would only make a difference in the radiator loop, where you'd have more water going through and therefore more cooling.

I'm guessing it would be a very tiny gain though. Probably much better for people with more flow dependant loops.
Also if you are going with two loops you have to make sure both loops are equaliy restrictive, or close atleast.

Edit: If you do try the dual loop where you have a "radiator-only" loop, i'd very much like to hear how it goes. If it is a viable way to go i'm pretty sure i'll do that too.
Without seeing your actual plumbing runs my unofficial opinion is that you will in fact see a slight improvement with the rad on it's own loop because your running the triple and rads by their very nature do like lots of flow. Vapor is correct that the pair of low restriction blocks would not benefit much by splitting the loops. That's in a best case scenario where running both cpu blocks on one loop gives you the shortest and cleanest plumbing run, which it most likely will.

One thing I think some are missing is that the water in the T3 reservoir is cycled almost 16 times a minute and that there is a great deal of intermix happening. Vapor alluded to that when he mentioned how the entire loop or loops will equalize or hit equilibrium.

One other point I think people are suddenly starting to hit on is the fact that the T3 just flat out offers you a lot of options you didn't have before. Because it makes filling and draining your system so easy there is no reason you can't try several different combination. I think the unofficial slogan for T3 ought to be "Tube is cheap. Go for it."

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