Reservoir in bottom?

[Top Nurse]

Any problems in putting a reservoir and possibly the pump in the bottom of the case? Case is a Lian-Li PC-V1200 and the 120mm radiator would be going directly in front of it all. Though I would have to remove one of the HDD racks to make room for everything

 

[Little Grabbi]

no problem, as long as the res is einther closed (filling the system through an additional t-line), or the outlet is below the fill port.

 

[Erasmus354]

There is no problem, but you want to make sure the resevoir outlet is above the pump inlet while filling/bleeding the system.

 

[DFI Daishi]

again with the no problem.

ever consider using a fill and bleed assembly instead?

 

[Erasmus354]

again with the no problem.

ever consider using a fill and bleed assembly instead?

If you are referring to something like the Fill/Bleed assembly that swiftech sells...DONT. They look all nice and dandy, but A) They dont work very well in filling/bleeding and B) They have more right angles than you can shake a stick at and will kill flow.

 

[DFI Daishi]

well, i MADE my fill and bleed assembly. i did not cram it into a drive bay, and it has NO right angles in the direction of normal flow.

now as for them not working very well...........i never had a res, so i do not have a basis for comparison, but it works well enough at getting water in and air out, to start, and it is EXCELLENT for keeping everything topped up.

 

[Top Nurse]

I want to put a 1or 2 bay reservoir in the bottom of my L-L V1200 case. There are 4 inlets and 2 outlets. I was going to use three (3) of them for return lines from various parts of the system. The 4th inlet I was going to use to go to a DD fill-port located on the top of the case. Then one of the outlets will go to the pump => radiator. The 2nd outlet would be reserved and blocked for future use as a 2nd loop in the system. Will this work without any overflow type problems? Physics was not my forte

 

[SledgeMakeGood]

That'll work fine, just goop the original fill port of the reservoir. Reservoir fill-ports can be trusted to be waterproof provided water isn't pushing out from inside, you fill the system from there, after all, so that's where the air collects. Chances are it would never have been a problem anyway, but you goop it for the same reason you double-check your cpu block tube clamps. It's separating water from hardware.

 

[Top Nurse]

Thanks for all the replies

I was considering using the fill port on the reservoir to insert a thermal probe to measure the reservoir temp. I am also inserting temp probes after the radiator, and after each of the three separate cooler systems (CPU/NB, GPU x2, and HDD's).

 

[SledgeMakeGood]

I was considering using the fill port on the reservoir to insert a thermal probe to measure the reservoir temp. I am also inserting temp probes after the radiator, and after each of the three separate cooler systems (CPU/NB, GPU x2, and HDD's).

I wanted to do that in my original design, but dropped it in favor of simplicity. Post your temps in a new thread? I think we'd all be curious to find the difference in temp (if any) through the loop. The consensus, as I've been humblingly corrected in the past, is that the water doesn't see much of a change in temperature throughout the loop, it just reaches an equilibrium where it moves the heat at a constant rate as it's being produced by the chips and absorbed by the radiator. I'm still not sure about it.

 

[Top Nurse]

I wanted the complex sensing on separate loops off the same pump. Everything is 1/4" except from the reservoir it goes 3/8" => pump => radiator input then I go to 1/4" radiator output. I'm also going to be experimenting around with chilled water as well. Not so much for the OC, but just to see what happens and why.