System with multiple AIOs?

[cisto1999]

Is building a system with 3-4 AIO-cooled GPUs (eg. EVGA Hybrid or equivalent) and an AIO-cooled CPU generally a bad thing or ok?

I don t like the thought that i have to maintain the system when i have a custom loop and on the other hand i also want to stay flexible in changing out the parts easily which is very hard to do with a custom loop but i want the benefit of a good cooled GPUs even a long run of rendering.

Whould a 3pin-fan-hub be a solution for all the pumps i would have to connect to the mb?

 

Will such a system be very noisy (all the pumps)?

 

 

[Nacho Marco Segui]

People say that the hybrids card are quiet, the pump is not too loud. What cooler will you be using for the cpu?

[ELSknutson]

There shoulder be an issue besides finding a case that can fit the coolers and having enough tubeing to stretch far enough. 

[SLAYR]

You may need to check case compatability if you are going to put that many radiators in, or mod the tubing to extend the aios so that the radiators can reach existing fan spots.

[afyeung]

No it won't be loud at all. Pumps on decent AIO's are extremely quiet. You'll need to be sitting in an absolutely silent room and running a silent pc to hear it. Even then you'll need to put your ear up to it. Coil whine is probably the loudest thing for a high end liquid cooled system.

[MichiganChucker]

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/TQm8TW

that one is small but works.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/VkYrxr

not to hard really, just some time to figure it out.

These arent mine just thought id quick reference some search from memory.

btw, that is the h110i gtx cpu watercooler. highly suggest u check that one out, read up on it.

[cisto1999]

I think in a corsair air 540 should fit 3 AIO-radiators at the front and 1 at the bottom? For the CPU -AIO there would be left the top panel.

Or i also thinking of the fractal design S - 3x120 at the front ...

 

When mounting the radiators vertically there should be no clearance issue - or do i miss a point here?

 

[Nacho Marco Segui]

Dont go 120mm for the cpu, an air cooler will be way better

[othertomperson]

18 minutes ago, cisto1999 said:

I think in a corsair air 540 should fit 3 AIO-radiators at the front and 1 at the bottom? For the CPU -AIO there would be left the top panel.

Or i also thinking of the fractal design S - 3x120 at the front ...

 

When mounting the radiators vertically there should be no clearance issue - or do i miss a point here?

 

No, there is no bottom slot on the Air 540. There are slots at the top, front and rear, but I doubt you could put a 120mm rad on each of them due to fouling.

[ThomasD]

You could probably put 3x120s in the front of an Air 540, and a 280 CPU AiO in the top,  assuming the GPU water tubes were long enough.  But that means dumping all the GPU heat right back into the case, and three GPUs means a tremendous amount of heat when under load. - which would then go out the CPU AiO ruining it's performance.  

 

In order to run that sort of set-up you would want to bring a lot more fresh air into the chassis.   If you were to omit using the two 3.5" hard drive locations on the bottom of the case you could mod it to support intake fans, probably up to 3x120 or 2x140.

 

Or, if you don't want to mod the case (and it might seem odd), you would probably get better performance running everything in reverse flow - put an aftermarket filter on the rear, run it as an intake, have the top 280 running as an intake and exhaust the 3x120s out the front.

 

 

[0ld_Chicken]

7 hours ago, cisto1999 said:

I think in a corsair air 540 should fit 3 AIO-radiators at the front and 1 at the bottom? For the CPU -AIO there would be left the top panel.

Or i also thinking of the fractal design S - 3x120 at the front ...

 

When mounting the radiators vertically there should be no clearance issue - or do i miss a point here?

 

The radiators are taller than a 120mm fan with the tubing ports and top rad chambers, I'm not certain on the width anymore so maybe they could fit in that way but they're probably a bit wider too. A bit of a modification might be required but it shouldn't be impossible

Edit: they actually look very close to 120mm wide so stacking them tubes to the side might work out fine

[Schoolofmonkey]

10 hours ago, cisto1999 said:

Is building a system with 3-4 AIO-cooled GPUs (eg. EVGA Hybrid or equivalent) and an AIO-cooled CPU generally a bad thing or ok?

I don t like the thought that i have to maintain the system when i have a custom loop and on the other hand i also want to stay flexible in changing out the parts easily which is very hard to do with a custom loop but i want the benefit of a good cooled GPUs even a long run of rendering.

Whould a 3pin-fan-hub be a solution for all the pumps i would have to connect to the mb?

 

Will such a system be very noisy (all the pumps)?

 

 

I have 2 AIO's in my machine, 1 H110 for the 5820k and a eVGA GTX980ti Hybrid.

Now I can't hear the pumps at all on either AIO, so pump noise isn't an issue, but the stock fan on the Hybrid is LOUD as it runs at full speed all the time, I'd hate to listen to 3 of them.

 

My suggestion if you're going with 3 Hybrids, change the fans to something quieter, connect them all to a fan hub and control them from your motherboard's fan header.

120mm fans are louder as they need to spin faster to move more air, I can't hear the fans on the H110 which has 2x 140mm Noctua's, but I can on my Hybrid even though I stuck a Noctua NF-12 PWM on it as it needs to spin at 100% (1500rpm) when gaming to keep the card at around 50c, any lower rpm and I may as well be using a custom air cooled GTX980ti.

The only upside is I can dial down the idle fan speed to less than 50% to keep the card at 29c, and it lowered my CPU temps...lol..