Liquid Cooling Myths

[NaeKuh]

Myth that LC is omnipotent & all-powerful while ignoring need for adequate rad size and expecting uber performance (common to factory made kits/sets with 1x120 rad).

this changes as you introduce this tho:

This one comes up now and then:

Pump before CPU block because high pressure improves thermal performance of the CPU block.

We know that pressure changes throughout the loop and flow rate remains constant, so this would imply that high pressure would somehow change the thermal properties of water at pressures as low as 10PSI. Unfortunately water is for all practical purposes particularly at the low pressure ranges considered in-compressible. So if you can't compress the water and increase it's density, you can't improve water's thermal properties with pump pressure. I suppose if you ran a system full of air bubbles it would have some impact, but otherwise...myth. As far as loop order goes, if you want to split fractions of a degree, the best place to put the CPU block is immediately after the radiator where the water is it's coldest. For practical purposes, it really doesn't matter because most systems will see less than a degree variance in water temperature throughout the loop.

lulz.. answered this already:

CPU b4 GPU... can be possible.. depends on how many gpu's u have, as having 2 can increase the water temp b4 it hits cpu while in loop... your playing with holding capacity of H2O here... Anytime u go over 350W of heat collected... your going to be playing with holding capacity.

Full cover blocks for GPUs are better then universal GPUs waterblocks + RAM heatsinks.

^ this is not a myth.... u can only get water channels @ VRM's with FC blocks.
There is no VRM block yet, unless i missed something.

Watercooling VRM's is very benificial, and more so since we saw how fast they can blow out after skinnee pop'd one on his bed during his GTX's tests.