Advice needed with Watercooling layout

[gareththomas]

For my first water cooling loop I installed 3 EK Slim 360 radiators as shown in the picture attached. I am concerned that I am impeading my performance by not having any freash air intakes. would my cooling performance be improved with the removal of one of the radiator and replacing it with just pure air intakes or increasing the thickness of some of the radiators? 

Any help or advice would be appreciated. 

[LIGISTX]

33 minutes ago, gareththomas said:

For my first water cooling loop I installed 3 EK Slim 360 radiators as shown in the picture attached. I am concerned that I am impeading my performance by not having any freash air intakes. would my cooling performance be improved with the removal of one of the radiator and replacing it with just pure air intakes or increasing the thickness of some of the radiators? 

Any help or advice would be appreciated. 

I can’t tell what the layout is at all in that image. Can you describe the layout? And components being used? 3 360’s is a lot of rad space…. 
 

Best advice with what little info we have, make the exhaust the first thing in the loop, and the intakes the last. This makes a minor difference, but it does help. 

[gareththomas]

Currently running 
I7-8700K at 5 GHz
Gigabyte 3080 Vision with Bykski waterblock. 

currently the side and bottom of the Lian Li O11 Razer edition are intake with a single exhaust at the top. 

Loop flows from Res to GPU to CPU to Exhaust to intakes to Res. 

Currently have the Pump at a static RPM of 2850 and the fans on an extreme profile based on the water coolant temp. 

My  main problem is I think heat soak, the componets are relatively cool GPU at about 70 when playing Destiny 2 at 1440p and CPU hovering around 75-80 degrees on the package but the coolant temp can get as high as 50 degrees particularly in the hot summers of Australia. I know the tubes I have begin to melt and deform at 60 so there isnt a huge amount of breathing room in summer. 

If any more information is needed please let me know.

[Neggy-Z]

Can we get some more and bigger pics of the rig?

 

3 360mm rads should be overkill for that setup

 

I would try top and side as exhaust with bottom as intake.

Could also remove the side panel to see if that helps with temps, i feel like you have to much warm air entering the case with the bottom and side rads as intake.

[fonzz1e]

• what fans u using
• are those EK SE360 or new surface S360 rads
• what's your coolant temp, yer XD5 did come with a temp plug
• what's the max load temp for cpu & gpu
• have u stress test your pc yet? (run prime95 small fft & unigine heaven together for 1 hour)

also pls remove glass panel when taking photo, can't really help u if we can't see the pic properly -_-

[gareththomas]

I am using Furious Varder Evo Fans, and EK-CoolStream SE 360 (Slim Tripple) Radiators.

Ambiant=26 Degrees Celcious
Max CPU temp=85 Degrees Celcious
Max GPU temp=80 Degrees Celcious

Coolant Temp: 46 Degrees Celcious

Again when it comes to summer ambiant temp can get to 35-40 Degrees, and that is when the coolant temp can creep towards 60 Degrees Celcious. 

I speced 3 360 rads as I knew it was overkill in the hopes of keeping my temps really low but that seems to have backfired a little. I am just trying to figure out if I would get better temps by removing a rad and having just fans instead
 

[fonzz1e]

water temps quite hot, fans rpm?

 

hmmm u might wanna check your waterblock contact with cpu & gpu too

[Sir Beregond]

How's your flow rate? A 90 degree fitting right off the pump outlet is usually never good.

 

I have two radiators in my O11-D. A thinner/standard 360 bottom mounted pulling in fresh air, and a thicker 360 top mounted in exhaust with the side intakes, intaking fresh air. 

[Mick Naughty]

Prolly a lack of fresh air or speeds of the fans/pump. No reason that hardware should be that hot.
Being a tim cpu, I'd delid it regardless.