Radiator Sizing

[Blindsay]

Hey all, 

So my Enthoo Pro II arrived and I have started planning my dual pc/loop build. My plan is to do a slim (20mm) 360 in the roof for the CPU only loop for the ITX machine at the bottom. In the front I bought (perhaps mistakenly) an EK XE (60mm) 480 rad. I was planning on doing push/pull on it (Mostly aesthetics as I am running the corsair QL fans). For the pump res I am considering 2 of these side by side https://www.performance-pcs.com/water-cooling/combo-pump-reservoir/aquacomputer-ultitube-d5-150-pro-reservoir-with-d5-next-pump.html (or possibly the EK FLT ones stacked vertically).

The issue I am seeing is if I do push/pull + 60mm + 2x of those res that adds up to about 10" of depth which will start to encroach on the main motherboard tray area. Also I am concerned it may interfere with the radiator in the roof. Right now this radiator has to cool a 10850k and a 2080 Super but that could be a 3080/3090 in the future. So I am thinking about dropping down to one of the smaller EK rads but I dont want to run out of cooling capacity. If I dropped all the way down to say their slim rad which is 28mm and did push/pull on that, do you think it would be enough for my cpu/gpu?

Thoughts?

Thanks! 

[OfficialTechSpace]

Just now, Blindsay said:

If I dropped all the way down to say their slim rad which is 28mm and did push/pull on that, do you think it would be enough for my cpu/gpu?

You could do dual 240's in a dual loop config and still have enough heat dissipation with that, you'd be fine. The custom 3080/3080 cards come with 240's roughly 28mm in depth already, and keep them around 60-ish degrees, so it'd still be sufficient with smaller/slimmer rads.

 

As for the 10850K, that chip is just going to run hot no matter what basically, but you'd also be fine with smaller/slimmer rads for that.

[Blindsay]

18 minutes ago, OfficialTechSpace said:

You could do dual 240's in a dual loop config and still have enough heat dissipation with that, you'd be fine. The custom 3080/3080 cards come with 240's roughly 28mm in depth already, and keep them around 60-ish degrees, so it'd still be sufficient with smaller/slimmer rads.

 

As for the 10850K, that chip is just going to run hot no matter what basically, but you'd also be fine with smaller/slimmer rads for that.

Cool, thanks

So it will be the EK 28mm 480 in push/pull for the 10850k and a 2080S (possibly future 3080/3090) and then a 20mm 360 rad in the roof in pull for an 11600K by itself (this is the cpu that will be in the ITX system)