Dual Loop versus Single, the facts

[MrBean]

But, by using my rad preference (360+240/280) instead of yours (240), just running prime on cpu I can shave 5C off my temps from say near 80 to mid/low 70's by ~halving my delta air to water to current 5C. You are making no greater gain on your liquid cooled cpu at 50W power with your liquid cooling vs high end air.

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I have also stated whatever works for your application, is what you must use - if you need absolutely the last drop of OC capability from your system, in WC format, so be it, then go for it, no prob with that. Then you fall outside the 95% group I mentioned earlier - most people will not want to OC to the brink of instability though, hence my comment of earlier.

Your arguments are good, no problem with that - if you buy a Porsche, why have 13" wheels on it. Get the 20" ones......but we probably did not need a Porsche to begin with

All jokes aside, I am down that same path with my Wife's rig, having a Feser quad 480, ATI 5990, I7 930 at 4Ghz, etc.....and it sports some pretty serious cooling with single-loop, daul D5's, and using an Innovatek fan-controller -> I have all that quality hardware in there, as it suits the build pretty well, is near-silent, and I realise to well, overkill.

Why did I do it then - well, for aesthetics, practicality, symmetry. So, I am not against this, merely saying it's not really required - but I do it anyway, because I can.

[rge]

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Why did I do it then - well, for aesthetics, practicality, symmetry. So, I am not against this, merely saying it's not really required - but I do it anyway, because I can.

Same reason as me, and likely many others.