Watercooling Diagram..

grunjee

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The only thing I would change is the direction the rad fans are blowing. Personally I think it's much better to exhaust the heat out of the case rather than in.

Other than that it looks good.
 

LastStop

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The fans look like they're blowing in the right direction. If it's going the other way, you would be pushing/pulling the hot air through the radiator which wouldn't cool the water as good as if it was going the way your diagram is drawn. Just get a case fan to exhaust the heat that is pulled in from the radiator.
 

grunjee

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Yeah to be honest I don't know which way is better in real-world situations... I got to thinking about it after I posted and I can see both ways.

Maybe some more people can come in here and give you some input.
 

Sachmho

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i would definately say to reverse the direction of the two fans. you don't want the hot air from the radiator blowing into the case. i'd have them reversed so that they blew away from the case.
 

rjcoolpix880

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okay here's an idea I thought of if you dont mind case modding.

Turn the unit 90 degrees. Cut a blowhole on the Right panel blowing in, and a blowhole on the Left panel blowing out. With , of course, the radiator in between.


 

grunjee

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Originally posted by: rjcoolpix880
okay here's an idea I thought of if you dont mind case modding.

Turn the unit 90 degrees. Cut a blowhole on the Right panel blowing in, and a blowhole on the Left panel blowing out. With , of course, the radiator in between.

If you were to do that and wanted it to be effective, you'd have to have some massive ducting going on, which would probably be impractical and maybe impossible, depending on the size of the case.
 

WarCon

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I vented my hot air into my case. It did slightly increase system temps (~5C under full load), but what does that really effect? Chipset, video card (had already modded with a huge heatsink and fan on the GPU), are they really that sensitive to heat? I made a blow hole and used an additional 80mm exhausting on the back to make sure it doesn't build up heat. I bought the watercooler to maximally cool the processor so I used the coolest possible air. If you can vent the air outside then that would be the best of both worlds though.
 

mste456

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on my rad i'm usin 2 ystech 120mm fans 135cfm each. these are set so the air is transfered out of the case. also got another 3 papst 120mm fans 4 general cooling especially my gf3!!!!!!
 

mste456

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oh yeah i use a innovatek set 2 cooling kit. 27 idle and 34 under full load
1.6 xp (1900) @ 1776~(2200) 146x12