Question on installing GPU water cooling inside an Alienware Area 51-R2

[theduck]

Looking to water cool SLI 1080's. Not sure a single 120mm rad would be enough to cool both cards once oc'd -- so was thinking of going 240mm.

The front side of the Area 51-r2 has 2 120mm mounts on the internal side of the front bezel, but there's about a 3" gap in between them -- getting a standard 240mm is possible but I'm trying to avoid having to come up with a work around to mount it.

Was thinking of doing the following-- (the water lines are just flow path). Don't know if its even ideal to be daisy chaining 2 120mm rads in succession...

Appreciate any feedback and definitely open to suggestions...

Thank You

 

[pendragon1]

that will work but you might need to rotate the rads so the end tanks don't block the side panel.

 

[Nimisys]

twin 120's will have the same cooling capacity as a single 240, all other things being equal. that being said, if you are worried about flow resistance, place them in parallel. you;ll get better flow than a single 120 but still have the cooling capacity of a 240

 

[theduck]

Appreciate the input guys...