Is having too many rads too much?

[davidm71]

Hi,

I've been wanting to water cool my rig for a year now and havent been able to get it off the ground. I have three rads one being a stealth 360 rad, black ice 240mm rad, and another larger thick loking monster 240 rad. I picked up 7/16 primochill tubing and compression fittings, and a koolance pmp-500 pump, heatkiller cpu block, and two EK gpu blocks. So was wondering do i have two many rads? Would the Ek revo d5 pump be too weak to handle all that restriction? Should i break up the flow from cpu to rad to gpu or just cpu to gpu to rad instead or does it matter?


thanks

 

[aigomorla]

that depends on what your after.

Are you after performance?
Because you most definitely have the cooling capacity for performance.

Are you after noise?
Because you definitely wont get a quiet system due to the black ice rads you have, especially that stealth series which has a very high fpi and requires loud powerful static fans.

Should you split up the loop?
Depends mostly if your a gamer / production user / or bitcoin + distributing computing user.

 

[davidm71]

I'm an old school overclocker when no fan was too loud but now a days I want a balance. Use to fan noise anyhow. Mostly gaming even though who has time these days!

Thanks

 

[aigomorla]

then no...

dont split it up.
Instead i would get another pmp-500 and get it for redundancy all on a single loop.