Cool questions on cooling

[Juunasv]

Hey everyone.

 

I'm planning on to get the Corsair carbide air 240 and do a skylake build.

Im still on the brainstorming phase and I got a couple of questions.

 

I know that if you want to cool dual gpus in parallel they need to be the exact same block.

What will happen if/would it be possible to - I connected a loop from dual gpu to the cpu and back again?

 

The carbide air 240 is probably not the ideal case to do a custom water loop, but I really like the case. I'm having trouble finding any pictures of the case with dual gpu and custom loop. Though I did find one where one of the two 240mm rads didn't had any fans.

How much does a fanless rad cool?

 

 

[NoobCase]

I really don't think a loop with 2 240 rads and only fans on one of them will be enough to cool cpu and 2 GPUs suffeciently. I had that case and a loop with cpu, gpu and 2 240 rads. They managed but it wasn't exactly the most silent operating water-cooling loop. It's the frost titan build in my signature.

[Captain Crunch]

I currently have that case and am planning/have bought some parts for custom liquid cooling of the cpu. I really would not recommend this case for it especially with dual gpu's. 

 

Duals gpu's mean you will have an M-ATX mobo which means youre limited to a thick rad in the front and just fans or a passive rad in the top.

 

One gpu would mean (with an itx board) that you could get a 240mm rad in the bottom with fans

 

you also need to be careful with graphics card width in this case, my msi gaming card pushes out against the side panel window, you may find it hard to get low profile blocks for the gpu

[Juunasv]

Thanks for the answers.

 

Sounds like it's going to be a challenge with this particular case.

Well not a lot of things comes easy.

 

Any experiences or knowledge in the loop order I mentioned in the original post?

[Captain Crunch]

did this go ahead? would love to know what you did with it

[0ld_Chicken]

I know this is probably blasphemy, but ocn has a great corsair 240 thread http://www.overclock.net/t/1528947/corsair-carbide-air-240-owners-club/2580#post_25191453

For anyone looking for specific info there is a "search this thread" button at the top.  I just picked one of these cases up and have been working on a custom loop with sli 980 and 4790k. A little hint- some imagination and a couple of quick disconnects gives you virtually unlimited rad space

[NoobCase]

Aaahhh a rad box.  Looks very interesting. Rad boxes seem to be a bit underestimated. 

[Carclis]

On 4/7/2016 at 4:22 AM, Captain Crunch said:

I currently have that case and am planning/have bought some parts for custom liquid cooling of the cpu. I really would not recommend this case for it especially with dual gpu's. 

 

Duals gpu's mean you will have an M-ATX mobo which means youre limited to a thick rad in the front and just fans or a passive rad in the top.

 

One gpu would mean (with an itx board) that you could get a 240mm rad in the bottom with fans

 

you also need to be careful with graphics card width in this case, my msi gaming card pushes out against the side panel window, you may find it hard to get low profile blocks for the gpu

You can't mount a 240 rad at the top? Surely you could at the very least mod it quite easily to allow that? The rear 80mm fan mounts would be ideal for attaching the reservoir to. I could certainly see it working although it probably wouldn't have the best temps.

[FRSHPRNCFBLR]

19 minutes ago, Carclis said:

You can't mount a 240 rad at the top? Surely you could at the very least mod it quite easily to allow that? The rear 80mm fan mounts would be ideal for attaching the reservoir to. I could certainly see it working although it probably wouldn't have the best temps.

There's not enough clearance to the motherboard, unless you drilled new mounting holes to move the radiator closer to the side panel.