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IsThis Even Possible

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jadawgis732

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Hello guys- need help again.


SHORT VERSION
Any advice for avoiding cyclones using a EK Multioption 250 Advanced Rev 2 in a horizontal position and bleeding? Do you guys know if this is even possible to do for the setup in the final pic?


LONG VERSION: The misadventures of stubbornness, how I got pissed on by my reservoir, HARD


So I've been trying and trying to get my multioption 250 advanced rev 2 working in a horizontal orientation. First try had problems with the return run from GPU 2 to the res.





The problem there was that my 90 degree adapter was causing the Bitspower crystallink to leak. Funny thing (well not really so funny when the coolant was spilling all over the bottom GPU as soon as the pump was started) was that it looked solid.


See?

So I resolved to switch to parallel flow on the next attempt(mostly as a way to get some wiggle room as space is getting tight) and reorient the reservoir in and out plugs.

Second try was a complete disaster, with coolant winding up in my eye from the bottom of the res unscrewing from the tube and pressure being high from a d5. Let me tell you those things spray hard if the restriction is high enough. So my motherboard was soaked (wet really, but between the two gpus so there was no way to gain quick access with some paper towels) but nothing was plugged in so after tilting the case to get move the flood AWAY from the expensive hardware, removing the gpus, going to town with some paper towel, and using a heatgun on low from about 5 feet away (kept it moving and only used for about 15 seconds in all) I sat down to regroup. (Sorry didn't have pics of the setup during the big mishap).

I came up with a T Line and some anticyclone inserts, but the longer insert is supposed to be used on the in port I take it. They were backwards, and it was a frothy brew in there, and LOUD.





Filling the thing is a pest too, I already installed a fillport up top to be used on the normal res placement in my case, and I'm not drilling anymore holes in the case damnit. I'm not liking the idea of running tubing from the current horizontal placement of the res to the top for the handy dandy useless fillport. A small T Line will have to do.

Any advice for avoiding cyclones (have all parts that came with the 250 multioption advanced rev 2) and bleeding with a multioption in a horizontal orientation? Do you guys know if this is even possible for the setup in the final pic?

I am hoping the hardware will still be alive but the way it looks I won't find out soon. And sorry for prattling on with my misadventures, it's been troublling to say the least.

 
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A few observations:

Reservoirs are best placed at the highest point in a loop (traps air). The current setup will continuously send bubbles through the loop making it noisy.

If you want to keep the res at the bottom anyways--you can move the res input to the backside (where you currently have the t-line), slow the pump down (lower voltage), and remove any anti-cyclone plate.
Alternatively, if you keep the current setup, if you use the t-line to completely remove the air from the res you won't have any issues. The only downside is then you're basically using your reservoir as an expensive piece of tubing instead of how it's meant to be used.
**Edit** To bleed the current setup, either (1) tilt the case such that the res is the highest and fill using the t-line or (2) remove the res from the mounts and tilt it such that you can remove air by filling through the t-line

Lastly, I don't think your parallel flow plumbing is viable. The top GPU will receive minimal cooling. Go back to your previous GPU plumbing regardless of what you end up doing.
 
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One of the things that will cause your reservoir to get all frothy is the top of the coolant being too close to the input/output connections. If the reservoir isn't designed to be installed sideways you're probably SOL; the single 5.25 drive bay swifty res I had originally was a massive PITA to get full enough top operate silently despite theoretically being designed to do so.
 
Unless i missed it or im missing something else...why not stick with your first setup and get smaller or shorter plugs for the GPU blocks?
 
its not really even necessary to have a resevoir, you can just add a T line if you can not fit that res vertically. the way you have it oriented will not work, as you found out, unless there is zero air in the system. and if there is zero air in the system to begin with, a resevoir is then unnecessary.
 
So here's how it ended up:


Still have to RMA the board now since the spill did cause some damage as having two GPUs causes a bluescreen on boot. Disconnecting power to one of them (doesn't matter which) eliminates the problem. . PITA for sure....but it is running...
 
Guess I was wrong again. The problem wasn't with the board, but the X-Fi drivers that were trouble from day one. In fact the guy I bought it off of told me I should do a clean install. I absolutely dread doing that so I found a way around it but it took hours out of my life. Anyway, booted into safe mode, removed the driver for the sound card and tada, triple screen action.... Also removed the T Line in hopes of removing a bit of da bubblay but no go there. Here's a few pics. Also, the reason that I wanted to do the reservoir in that spot can be seen in the pics below, a 12" (should probably go with a 8") UV CCFL is right behind the res lighting it up.



 
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