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  1. Prophet of Entropy
    OP, nothing is what happens.
  2. Prophet of Entropy
    there is a reason why people recommend the Laing D5 as the only pump you want. powerful, reliable, quiet and under volts well.
  3. Prophet of Entropy
    70-90$ for a for a D5 pump is an investment that's more then worth the cost. you can cheap out on a pump if you want but expect to end up replacing it.
  4. Prophet of Entropy
    unless your tubing is in direct sunlight for most of the day I wouldn't worry too much about it, 8-12 months down the road you might notice your tubing is changing colour, but it wont be an issue for looks unless you start adding new tubing.
  5. Prophet of Entropy
    how your going to drain your loop is something you plan before you fill it. cause I see no easy way, tip it on its side and cut a tube. if you have a wet/dry vac use that to clear the fluid from the lines, if you don't... have lots and lots of paper towel ready.
  6. Prophet of Entropy
    from what I can tell from the OPs chart he only has 2 770s.
  7. Prophet of Entropy
    air pockets with serial connectors are very rare compared to parallel, and my serial SLI cards are within 2-3 degrees of each other under load. so... why go parallel?
  8. Prophet of Entropy
    parallel also can give you problems, ive seen 2 posts about in the last 60 days about people having 1 card being at 90C while the other is at 30C with parallel loops. cause if there is any difference restriction between the 2 blocks 1 wont get flow, they both had air in 1 block. serial is better.
  9. Prophet of Entropy
    EK and XSPC offer some decent kits, but they aren't that great of deals over just buying everything separately. also they each have like 10-20 kits so you still need to know what you want and need.
  10. Prophet of Entropy
    for CPU blocks you need to use the ports as labeled unless your ok with significantly worse performance.
  11. Prophet of Entropy
    xspc doesn't seem to sell the combo mount part seperately for the photon, but you can buy something like it for bitspower and EK reservoirs. but without knowing what you have its hard to say what you need. did you want the D5 cover mod kit on a photon? cause you can buy a combo photon and a cover mod kit and simply use them.
  12. Prophet of Entropy
    I've seen a system with 2 680s and a 3760k running on a single 240mm rad and get temps equal to air cooling, not high end air, stock. so yes, a 360 will be better then stock for 1cpu and 1gpu, plus when you get some extra cash you can always expand it.
  13. Prophet of Entropy
    the ports are listed as G1/4 so you don't try going to the hardware store and buying some NPT fittings or some other thread type and end up wrecking the threads.
  14. Prophet of Entropy
    the only 2 reasons to empty you loop would be to do maintenance while you have the case open or because you cant move the block out of the way of the cpu. if I was changing my cpu I wouldn't empty my loop.
  15. Prophet of Entropy
    possible, but silly and pointless. the only thing you cant water cool is your power supply, and those do fine under air. all that you would gain is something that is very messy.
  16. Prophet of Entropy
    the kits that come with a D5 are much better for later expansion, since you can add 2-3 more rads and a few GPU blocks and the pump will be fine. the ones with x20 750 are fine for cpu cooling only, but not great for expanding.
  17. Prophet of Entropy
    buy one of the XSPC kits with as big a rad you can fit in your case and but a GPU block and 2 extra fittings. just get one with the parts you need. (some don't come with fans).
  18. Prophet of Entropy
    ugh, turn on your computer AND TILT IT!!!! this loop bleeding 101 here. check out DazMode's tutorial videos on youtube if you don't understand.
  19. Prophet of Entropy
    how restrictive you loop is mostly comes down to the single largest restriction in your loop. and that is most likely your CPU block. adding extra stuff and longer will lower flow further but by much much less. anything over 1.5 liters a min is plenty of flow, you might want higher if you run 4-5 heat sources. (MBs, mosfets and ram don't count as heat sources) as for gravity and flow, it really isn't an issue unless your pumping fluid from one holding tank to another and not in a sealed loop. (since gravity works equally both going up AND down) they make dual/triple/quad pump mounts so that's all you'd need.
  20. Prophet of Entropy
    if your spending the cash you, are might as well get one of the dual D5 mounts for your loop too, for reliability and for extra head pressure without having to run the pumps at high speeds. that koolance pump is just a rebranded D5 strong. if you want you can get another and use a pump controller to vary their speeds instead of varios as for rads, if you want "rules of thumb" look at the watercooling stickies, if you want comparrisons google it.
  21. Prophet of Entropy
    the MCP655 is a D5, the same pump that comes/is on the photon. so as far as I can tell there is no compatability problem.
  22. Prophet of Entropy
    then mark the post that answered your problem as answering it,
  23. Prophet of Entropy
    the biggest problem for electric cars is the energy density of batteries, about 2% of the equal weight of gasoline.
  24. Prophet of Entropy
    why don't you use flexible copper tubing (the kind you find in hardware stores in rolls) and Koolance's copper tube compression fittings. the Koolance fittings use a crush ring just like hydraulic compression fittings, so the tubing would burst before the fitting let go.
  25. Prophet of Entropy
    at least this isn't another topic about which AIO someone should get....... or about how the AIO they got isn't working/wasn't installed correctly....
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