question about making a custom loop

[radical guild]

can bay reservoirs be mounted sideways 

[W-L]

13 minutes ago, radical guild said:

can bay reservoirs be mounted sideways 

They can as long as you have the unit correctly oriented so that the inlet of the pump is always below the waterline so it never runs dry. However I wouldn't recommend bay units as they tend to readily transfer vibration and noise into the chassis. 

[DaftBehemoth]

I'd also add that bay reservoirs have more points of failure than a tube res... and a tube res is easier to mount in random places (especially considering your need to mount a bay res sideways).

[Simon771]

What's wrong with rad + res combo?

That seems by far the best idea for water cooling

 

[Limecat86]

5 hours ago, W-L said:

They can as long as you have the unit correctly oriented so that the inlet of the pump is always below the waterline so it never runs dry. However I wouldn't recommend bay units as they tend to readily transfer vibration and noise into the chassis. 

I can vouch for the noise transfer. Got a dual DDC bay reservoir which already start making noise when running at >30% PWM