Water Cooling

[rbrooks007]

Hi

I am planning a water cooled desk PC with 2 x 2080ti and i9 9900k.

Do i need 3 water cooling systems for the 3 components? or will 1 do for 2 x GPU's plus 1 for the CPU??

 

Thanks

[Skiiwee29]

You can do a dual loop system no issues. Hell, as long as you have enough radiator space, a single loop is more that sufficient as well. 

[rbrooks007]

Nice.

I want 2 as it looks better. 

Can i link the 2 GPUs together (SLI) with the cards laying down, would there be such a connector?

[WWicket]

17 minutes ago, rbrooks007 said:

Nice.

I want 2 as it looks better. 

Can i link the 2 GPUs together (SLI) with the cards laying down, would there be such a connector?

I've never seen an SLI bridge that could reach between 2 GPUs vertically mounted that weren't stacked (see pic), if that is what you mean. If they are stacked, any sli bridge will work.

 

If you just mean a water cooling fitting that will fit between 2 sli cards, then yes, there is a ton of options. 

[rbrooks007]

Yes thats it in the pic.

I want the cards to lay flat not upright and link them together.

Your right i recon i can do the watercooling hat way but not the SLI link

[rbrooks007]

Also is there a link to a drawing of the basic plumbing for water cooling. i wouldnt mind a guide..

[WWicket]

8 hours ago, rbrooks007 said:

Also is there a link to a drawing of the basic plumbing for water cooling. i wouldnt mind a guide..

There is literally hundreds of guides.

Probably start with: 

 

and https://www.overclock.net/forum/61-water-cooling/226970-updated-water-cooling-essential-threads.html

 

Between those two, you should find anything you need. 

 

Not sure what you a looking for in a picture-- just look at different build logs to see how you layout tubing. The layout will depend on your case etc., but the only really important part is that the reservoir comes directly before and above the pump in your loop. Theoretically, it would be best to have parallel flow (https://www.ekwb.com/blog/parallel-vs-serial-loop-why-choose-one-over-the-other/) through the GPUs and the radiators at the end of the loop (when fluid is hottest), but realistically, temps. only vary a couple degrees throughout a  loop so it hardly makes a difference. 

It is nice to have a bleed port at the highest point in each loop and a drain valve at the lowest. 

 

EX.) Loop1: Res>Pump>CPU>Rad>Res(return), Loop2: Res>Pump>GPU1+GPU2>Rad>Res(return).