Horizontal Mounted Reservoir?

NerfThis · July 8, 2017

Okay, so this is a long and painful story.

Its my first time watercooling, and I basically bought too big of a reservoir and pump that aren't even from the same company so I cant combine them.

I have been ripping my hair out trying to fit all my components into the case, and I would have gotten away with it if I had ordered a slightly smaller GPU.

However, because I am running a GTX 1080 Ti Poseidon, I realized I could not mount my reservoir in front of my 360 mm radiator no matter what I do.

After moving things around thoroughly, I came up with a solution of horizontally mounting my reservoir and attaching it to my 240 radiator at the top.

I have attached a diagram of how things look right now:
Red - Radiators

Light Blue - D5 Pump

Dark Blue - Reservoir

Yellow - CPU Waterblock

Purple - GPU

If I could actually pull this tubing off, would you guys recommend it?

Or should I just turn in the d5 and the reservoir for a smaller combo? (I lose 20% of the money I paid, so I would like to avoid this.)

Enderman · July 8, 2017

Horizontal is safe, you just need to keep a higher water level so that the pump intake port in the middle is always covered.

Mick Naughty · July 8, 2017

I moved mine in preparation for hardline. Fill port faces the back where I remove a pci cover to fill it. I put the case on its face an a fill it and leave it there for a bit to bleed as the pump is still below the res.