Watercooling Setup Help

lol right..... what are you talking about? i know the water flows through the waterblock

Believe me your stock CPU fan will do the job, unless u will overclock your system.

The picture I drew is a top view of your crossfire waterblock setup. You'll probably need to supply an extra set of nipples for the crossfire prepared waterblock so you can attach the waterblock for the second card to it. I draw better picture now.



The green stuff is cooling fluid.

according to the Danger Den website, its supposed to look like this



but how will i make my non-crossfire prep block, into a crossfire prep block.
from what i can tell, the crossfire block is drilled all the way through, through the top acrylic, hence the need for the sealed bolt on the top.
if i do that, surely it will leak?

both my blocks have the plugs facing in the same direction, so I'm sure i can still make them work by just using a extra bit of tubing to connect the two, obviously it wont be as neat as this set-up, but i dont mind?

Ouch that's a long ways for the water to go.

I don't think watercooling is a good idea, my friend did it and a tube leaked and his whole machine ( costed him about $2800 ) got filled up with water and all the crap messed up.

Watercooling works quite well TP, provided it's done properly.

Drilling your second block isn't a good idea. Voiding your warranty and leaks comes to mind.

Connecting the video cards in series like you diagrammed will leave one of them hotter than the other.

Running them in parallel like I diagrammed and your blocks seem to be setup for will raise the temperature of each card a bit but they will both be the same temp and you'll have less back-pressure from the two blocks.

OH yeah!! Your video cards monitor their fan speed. Before you take off and replace their heatsinks you'll need to disable the monitoring feature in their BIOS through the video driver, or your machine will not boot!

ok how do i disable the fan monitoring? through catalyst control?

and the diagram you drew doesnt seem to work with my cards, as they both seem to have the 3/8 barbs facing in the same direction



unless i undo the nipple connection on the crossfire preped one and swap it around, if i can.

Ill give it a go tonight.

if not, what do you think of this setup?

Yeah, disable the fan monitoring through the Catalyst Control Center.

Don't you have two threaded holes on the front of your Crossfire prepared waterblock?

If you do you'll need two more 3/8 nipples. You'll also need to remove any plugs that are covering those threaded holes so you can install the extra nipples. I believe that those threaded holes are designed to fit G1/4 threaded nipples. You'd install the two nipples in the front of the Crossfire Prepared waterblock connect short lenghts of tubing to the those nipples connect the second waterblock to the tubing and place clamps to make everything water tight.

i took a better pic of the connections



its a hexagon key shape, i'll open it up tomorrow and see if i can change the way the barb goes.

but what did you think of my latest watercooling setup?

I only have one problem with the setup. I'd do this instead.


You'll get more water to the northbridge with the above.

The next picture simply uses your crossfire setup instead of the splitters to direct the flow. The water flow through the various waterblocks would be about the same but the backpressure would be a little less because of lack of splitters and less tubing.