Hydra Flow Metering Manifold for Triple Loop Cooler

[spookedjunglist]

Who is this NooB?

How you been bro?

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

Spooked! Glad to hear from ya. It's my B-day today so I am suffering the indignities.

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

Just as a note. The main reason the client wanted to split the loop into sections is because he is using a Dual Socket Motherboard that has two liquid cooled processors. Likewise there are two liquid cooled GPUS. And finally there are two waterblocks for the chipset: MCH and Southbridge/NV200. Seperating the loops facilitates service. It makes it easy to drain just the GPU loop to pull the cards and bench other cards or whatever. It's not required: it's a convenience.

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

Parallel plumbing ensures the two CPUs and the two GPUs get exactly the same temp fluid. Since these components all get overclocked and run at load for extended periods of time it's just intuitively the right way to go about cooling them by liquid. I am not saying having one CPU a degree warmer than the other would make the least bit of difference...it's just a modder's choice.

[bazza4288]

wouldnt that severly limiting the flow?

you'd need something like 2 1/2 times bigger goin to the cooler to achieve a laminar flow right?

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

Restriction in a closed loop is always on the smallest ID which in almost any circumstance will be the G-1/4 port/fittings on the waterblock(s)/rads and/or the most restrictive part of the waterblock or rad. 3/8 Ball Valves have an ID when full open that is larger than the ID of a typical hiflo G-1/4 barbed fitting. In a closed loop temps and restrictions are averaged. I am grossly oversimplifying but basically the manifold facilitates maintenance and allows for flow to be tuned for the 3 loops.

[bazza4288]

is there any gain by seperating them into seperate loops? i ask this because I have a liquid cooling loop myself, going through my cpu and gpu, i plan on expanding this once i find a case big enough to fit both of my swiftech 360 radiators.

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

I've done it both ways. If you have a sufficiently powerful pump you will see no disadvantage to branched loops. Martinm210 did a lot of testing and basically the differences between serial and parallel loops are small. The downside to parallel is the extra tubing which creates drag on the fluid >>> more resistance. Serial plumbing uses the least amount of tubing usually so the least overall drag. But with a high flow pump it's a non issue and will not effect temps. It's more for convenience..

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

Just for my own curiousity I hooked this up to the house water and the port furthest away has the highest flow. So this is taken into account when plumbing the PC with the highest output going to the waterblock(s) that are the most restrictive. During the de-aeration when testing the loop it is easy to see the speed of the fluid due to all the bubbles. At that point I was able to play around with adjusting the valves. Although only 3 valves are needed I use 8 to ease assembly and maintenance.

[mognovox]

what does that do?

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

It splits the In/out from an external cooler into 3 supply and 3 return ports. It's for PC liquid cooling where you have a CPU, GPU and Chipset loop of watercooling using waterblocks, radiators and pumps.

[mognovox]

oh yea i got it was for watercooling but i didnt get what it did but thanks and nice vids really like the stuff your do

[crazywin69]

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[CyberDruidtheModGod]

I'll see what I can do for youse guyz

[DeadFredVideo]

That is pretty damn insane :D

[RickArter]

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[aa64x22008]

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