Water cooling question.

[Osmium]

To my understanding a water cooling loop consists of a reservoir, a pump, a radiator, and then all the water blocks for parts.

 

However I ask could you make a loop that runs off of a single pump and multiple radiators?

 

What I mean by this is have the liquid go into one radiator (for example a 2x 120mm fan rad) and then have it connect to another radiator somewhere before it goes back into the reservoir/water blocks again?

[Osmium]

I don't mean sequence but can I have water going into one radiator, out back into the tubing then right into another radiator. Or does that make the pump have to work harder?

 

All this is in theory but I might have to do something like this to get around the space constraints of my case.

[RatedBlam]

I don't mean sequence but can I have water going into one radiator, out back into the tubing then right into another radiator. Or does that make the pump have to work harder?

 

All this is in theory but I might have to do something like this to get around the space constraints of my case.

To my limited knowledge you don't need a pump before a new component, and most build have a single pump

[Ghost]

Raditors nowadays have very low resistance compared to waterblocks. You should usually be worried about the amount of waterblocks in a loop, rather than the amount of rads.

 

Also, @SOUTHwarrior . Running two pumps is ussually beneficial to flow rate but doesnt affect perfromance much, in most loops. It is done for redundancy; if one pump fails the other pump keeps pumping. In fact, there are a lot of pump tops out there designed for two pumps.