Redundant Radiators?

[Toonage]

Howdy all...I'm going to be doing a new custom setup on a Lian Li V1000: THIS (in black)....I have lots of options with this case..one is to go a dual with that and the rez cut into the top, but I was also thinking of using 2 single radiators in place of the stock 120 fan locations to avoid cutting this beautiful case. My question to y'all is: is there any advantage to the 2 singles, or would there be any problems. If you look at the pic, I'll be removing the HDD cages and remounting the drives standing up lengthwise to gain some room (note: the pic shows only one drivecage, and mine has two, with shorter PSU area)..possibly for a tank-o-matic. Now logic would tell me that the front radiator would be first in the loop and drawing outside air, going to wherever, then to the second which would push out heat. Does this idea make any sense from a practical standpoint?

 

[Cerb]

If you are using a restrictive flow waterblock and tubing, it is probably overkill. If you are going with big tubing and a more open block, the more radiator, the better. However, with 120mm sizes radiators, you're not doing free flowing... 🙂

If you want two radiators, see if you can double them up at the front.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

overkill unless you have a giant pump to keep the pressure up and a lot of heat to move. parallel radiators would do better, or having something like cpu-rad-gpu-rad in series to cool each seperately

 

[Tiamat]

As iwantanewcomputer has stated - If you have an overclocked Prescott and a 6800 GT or Ultra, id probably be beneficial to split the heat dissapation through 2 radiators in a cpu-rad-gpu,NB,HDD-rad fashion.