Quote Originally Posted by turtletrax View Post
Really trying to get my tubing run figured as I will not be doing separate loops. Never done a single loop with two rads and double pump
Really nice - this looks awesome. Love how you have it going from the EK SLI/CF bridge straight into the pump. Did you go with the Parallel or Serial bridge, and how did you make your choice? Currently I have just one Radeon 5850 but if I ever got another I would definitely get one of these bridges... just wasn't sure what the consensus is on which type is better - Parallel vs. Serial...

Is it OK to have the 2 pumps separated like that in one loop? I would be worried about one burning out the other... I also switched my WC setup from 2 loops to 1 - went with the EK v2 dual ddc top:

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=27148

I was a bit worried about burnout issues, so will see how it goes... should be doing leak testing today. Also I (wrongly) assumed it would sit underneath the motherboard (Rampage III Extreme) so the reservoir and all would be up against the back wall, but as you can see the board is about half inch too low once mounted (ARGH!!!), so I had to mount the pumps & res in the middle (used screws & cap nuts along w/the fan grill heheheh)... since the pump top isn't reversible, this was really the only position available for me (unless anyone has any ideas)...

Here's some preliminary pics w/no lighting, water (waiting for mayhem's dye & killcoil), RAM cooler, etc. yet... the tube going to the top of the res terminates at a fill port at the top of the case:









Hardware:
Case: Corsair Obsidian 800D
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Extreme
Processor: Intel Core i7 930
Memory: 3x2GB GSkill Pi Series PC3-16000
Video: XFX Radeon HD 5850 "XXX Edition"
System Drive: OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 Sandforce Chipset
Data Drives: 2x500GB Seagate RAID1, 2x1.5TB WD Black RAID1, 1xOCZ Colossus OCZSSD2-1CLS250G 3.5" 250GB, 1xWD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drives: LG BluRay Burner, Asus DVD/RW
Sound: Auzentech Forte 7.1 PCI-e
Expansion Cards: Asus U3S6 USB3.0 & SATA6Gb/s PCI-e, Promise FastTrak TX2300 PCI RAID Controller, Rosewill JMicron Chipset PCI-e RAID Controller
Display: Matrix Orbital LK-204-7T-1U-USB-TCI Tri Color 20x4 Character Display
Bay Device: Akasa All In One 2 Control Panel (used for ports only, not fan/temp control)
Pump/Fan/Thermal Power & Control: MCubed BigNG w/Analog Sensor Hub

Water Cooling:
Res1: EK Multioption 250 w/Multifunction Link connected to
Pump Top: EK-DDC Dual TOP V2 - White Acetal
Pumps: 2xSwiftech MCP355
Rad1: Swiftech MCR320 w/3 Zaward 120mm ZG2-120A "Golf" fans push & 3 Scythe Slipstream SY1225SL12SH pull
Rad2: Black Ice SR1 140mm Low Flow w/Zaward 140mm "Golf" fan push & Corsair 140mm fan pull
Board block: EK-FB RE3 Rampage III Extreme full board block
CPU: EK Supreme HF - Nickel/Red Plexi
VGA: EK FC-5850 w/RAM Backplate

Misc:
Fill Port: Danger Den Black Aluminum
Tubing: Feser UV White 1/2" ID 3/4" OD, Feser UV Red 1/2" ID 3/4" OD
Flow Meters: Koolance INS-FM17 (visual), Swissflow SF800 (sensor)
Coolant Temp Sensor: Bitspower BP-WTP-CT Shiny Silver Temp Sensor
Fittings: various Bitspower & Enzotech "Shiny Silver" fittings
TIM: Arctic Cooling MX-3 and Shin-Etsu X23-7783D (found the MX-3 to be a bit watery and the Shin-Etsu to be very thick/hard to apply... used it on the CPU block and maybe one other, w/the MX-3 on the rest)