Hey again, a few more questions from the resident noob regarding pumps, reservoirs and loop order.
I am looking at going dual pump, due to having redundancy but I am also wondering if it's absolutely necessary. My plan was to go with the EKWB - EK-D5 Vario X-RES 140 (incl. pump), mostly out of the ease of having all the right stuff, and looks like the pump should be strong enough by itself, but since I have going for the EK CoolStream PE 240 and 360 rads, two GPU blocks and a CPU block I am wondering about the pressure/flow through all this. Will a single pump be okay, or should I go up to two pumps?
Question about the loop is what is the best way to loop everything in. Would there be a problem to have two pumps being supplied by the same reservoir, with the pumps running in series to the entire loop, or in parallel to separate loops for the CPU and the GPUs? As for the loop, is it best to go to the rad after the devices or will going from the rad to the device make much difference in how much heat is pulled from the GPU/CPU?
Last bit, is if two pumps are used, should they be put into the loop in series, one directly after another, or should one lead to GPU and then one to CPU and have the loop setup where it goes pump/res -> GPU -> large rad -> pump/res -> CPU -> smaller rad.
Thanks in advanced for helping out this noob with some information
I am looking at going dual pump, due to having redundancy but I am also wondering if it's absolutely necessary. My plan was to go with the EKWB - EK-D5 Vario X-RES 140 (incl. pump), mostly out of the ease of having all the right stuff, and looks like the pump should be strong enough by itself, but since I have going for the EK CoolStream PE 240 and 360 rads, two GPU blocks and a CPU block I am wondering about the pressure/flow through all this. Will a single pump be okay, or should I go up to two pumps?
Question about the loop is what is the best way to loop everything in. Would there be a problem to have two pumps being supplied by the same reservoir, with the pumps running in series to the entire loop, or in parallel to separate loops for the CPU and the GPUs? As for the loop, is it best to go to the rad after the devices or will going from the rad to the device make much difference in how much heat is pulled from the GPU/CPU?
Last bit, is if two pumps are used, should they be put into the loop in series, one directly after another, or should one lead to GPU and then one to CPU and have the loop setup where it goes pump/res -> GPU -> large rad -> pump/res -> CPU -> smaller rad.
Thanks in advanced for helping out this noob with some information
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