Cross-Flow or standard rad

[cakez]

hello,I'm doing a watercool loop soon and right now I'm picking the rads should I use a standard rad or a cross-flow rad?

[SonoDanshi]

It depends entirely on how you want your tubing to look. x-flows can be useful for avoiding very long runs of pipe across components. Performance wise there is a very tiny (margin of error) difference between x-flow and u-flow rads of equivalent specs so it will really come down to convenience.

 

There is a partial discussion on the performance of x-flow vs u-flow in the thread below and contains a video of someone benching the 2 rads for comparison.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/443591-radiator-port-help/

[cakez]

It depends entirely on how you want your tubing to look. x-flows can be useful for avoiding very long runs of pipe across components. Performance wise there is a very tiny (margin of error) difference between x-flow and u-flow rads of equivalent specs so it will really come down to convenience.

 

There is a partial discussion on the performance of x-flow vs u-flow in the thread below and contains a video of someone benching the 2 rads for comparison.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/443591-radiator-port-help/

that's the post that made me post this I wanted to know more so I posted this.So I guess I'll do cross-flow cause it's so much easier to use,get's a cleaner look and U-flow is just a bit bigger.Thank you Sono