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WC newbie question

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jschloer

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Ok so I'm in the design stages for a case I want to build. It's a media server and right now it has 3 capture cards and will probably have a forth by the time I'm ready to build the case. Right now it's obnoxiously loud so I want to go to water cooling. The question I have is regarding the capture cards. Two of them have mpeg encoders with cooling fans and I'd like to wc those as well. However I want to use 1/2 inch tubing for the system. So is there some way I can take the 1/2 tubing and make or buy a junction box that will split a single half inch tube into four 1/4 inch tubes. Then I could buy those cheap GPU blocks for the evercool system and use them to cool my video card, 2 capture cards and maybe even the northbridge. Does that make any sense? Or should I try to squeeze the 1/2 inch tubing in? Thanks for the help.
 
Try www.mcmaster.com. They have all kinds of adapters for tubing and such there, so they might have something like what you are looking for. Or at least something you could make work. You're going to need one hell of a pump to deal with all of those blocks though...
 
How would I go about figuring out how much of a pump I'm going to need? I'm sure pipe length will have something to do with it. Is that the head ft. that I keep seeing? Could I daisy chain two small pumps to get the strength I need or should I have one big one?Do I need a lot of current or just a steady flow? . It's mostly just a media server so CPU should be used very little. I will do some media encoding with it and some watching TV, but forr the most part the load will be I/O. Either way I'm not going to be overclocking so heat shouldn't be a huge issue. I mostly want quiet vs. ice cold. So I don't want to get too pump happy and instead go with the most moderate pump I can get away with.
Thanks again for all the help, I'll see what I can dig up for connectors on that site.
 
Head is relative to the amount of gravity (height) from the top of the water level (since water will level out automatically) that the pump has to fight, if I recall correctly.

Your case should not be 8ft higher than the reservoir. In normal w/c setups, the reservoir is higher than the entire system (upper drive bay) so head doesn't play much of a role.

You need a strong pump to be able to fight the flow-choking waterblocks of today. I'm sure the guys around here will be able to give a good suggestion on which one is best for your setup.
 
Go to Marinedepot.com and check out their pumps. I use the Dolphin Pong 385GPH pump. It works GREAT! Insane flowrates with this guy...
 
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