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Enough cooling?

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How can I figure out if the watercooling system I put together will actually give me the right amount of cooling? Is it concievable to build a watercooled system worse than an aircooled?
 
It's difficult, but still doable. The single largest factor, IMO, is the radiator. After that, I think the speed of the pump ranks second. It seems like designing an effective water-block isn't too difficult, it would probably be harder to actually botch it. This of course presumes the hoses don't kink.
 
Well say, I'm running a Danger Den TDX on an athlon 64 3200+ (winchester), with the danger den 12vdc pumps (the tiny ones), to a black ice micro. How about two maze 4 on two 6600gt's with the same pump and radiator?
 
black ice micro will cool the cpu averagely well, add in a gpu to the loop and you are pushing it. If you have good airflow through the micro it should be able to hold decent enough temperatures on a single cpu or gpu. I would recommend to go with at least a 120mm radiator, if only for the fact that 120mm fans are much quieter than 80mm fans.
 
I'd be running my cpu on one DD12VDC Pump, and a black ice micro.
and then my two 6600 gt's on another DD12VDC Pump and black ice micro.
I can't fit 120mm fans in this case unfortunately.

Here's another question, what if I use copper tubing between blocks? Would the copper pull additional heat out of the water as it flowed through it?
 
no copper tubing wont really make much of a difference at all, wont lower the temps any more than a resevoir will (and resevoirs dont lower temps ;) )
 
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