Water Cooling Video Cards

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jwl24

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Quick question regarding a water cooling build I'm doing..

I'm planning to have a radiator at the top of the case, have the water flow to a tube reservoir, then out the two holes on the tube reservoir to each of the graphics cards, having the outputs of both the graphic cards merge into a y connector before going back to the main reservoir.

Does this sound viable? Reason being is that many of the water cooling builds that I've looked at all have a inter-connected link between the graphics cards, instead of having two separate tubes from the reservoir.. i would think this would cool better, rather than having the already warmed water from passing thru the first graphics card, to the second one if it was in a inter-connected set-up.
 
How many cards are you planing on cooling? Also are you going to be overclocking your CPU? From what I have read and seen many are using two loops. One for the CPU and the other for the Video cards. So that would mean you would need two dedicated rads.
 
XFaega said:
How many cards are you planing on cooling? Also are you going to be overclocking your CPU? From what I have read and seen many are using two loops. One for the CPU and the other for the Video cards. So that would mean you would need two dedicated rads.
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Running two cards, and two loops. One loop for the two cards, and going to be running separate tubes to them instead of linking them together, and then having them Y together into the main reservoir.

Other loop for the motherboard and the cpu, running thru the normal loop and then ending up in the main reservoir.
 
What case are you using? Y-ing the two loops to on res will be ok but could cause back flow to the weaker loop. What I have seen is one loop with two rads. It all depends on the case you have.
 
XFaega said:
What case are you using? Y-ing the two loops to on res will be ok but could cause back flow to the weaker loop. What I have seen is one loop with two rads. It all depends on the case you have.
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Using the Cool Master HAF X.

Something like this..

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