More Rad Advantage?

[Shadowman]

What is the advantage of having more radiators say for example am water cooling a cpu which is heavily overclocked something like the i9 7900x  and a GPU say Nvidia 1080 Ti also overclocked a 360 radiator would be fine right? But say I add another 480 radiator so that's 360 + 480 will I see big differences in temps?

[3rrant]

2 minutes ago, Shadowman said:

What is the advantage of having more radiators say for example am water cooling a cpu which is heavily overclocked something like the i9 7900x  and a GPU say Nvidia 1080 Ti also overclocked a 360 radiator would be fine right? But say I add another 480 radiator so that's 360 + 480 will I see big differences in temps?

The difference between a 240/280/360 .. you name it, radiators isn't THAT huge. There is a difference, but it is more likely to have a very slight impact on cooling performance. Pumps, fans and other components of your circuit will change things much more.

[Vandorlot]

2 minutes ago, Shadowman said:

What is the advantage of having more radiators say for example am water cooling a cpu which is heavily overclocked something like the i9 7900x  and a GPU say Nvidia 1080 Ti also overclocked a 360 radiator would be fine right? But say I add another 480 radiator so that's 360 + 480 will I see big differences in temps?

I dont think there are 480 mm radiators but to answer your wuestion probably. The i9s i heard get very hot and an extra radiator would cool it off better. But if your temps are at room temperature you wont see any diffrence.

[Shadowman]

2 minutes ago, Vandorlot said:

I dont think there are 480 mm radiators 

Hmmmm is that a error? ^^^   Better be or your definitely living on a different planet. 

[Vandorlot]

4 minutes ago, Shadowman said:

Hmmmm is that a error? ^^^   Better be or your definitely living on a different planet. 

Well i thought there werent any buti found some

[Lurick]

More rads = more fans.

So you have two options,

1. Run fans at same speed for lower temps (unless you're at room temp already with a single 360 rad)

2. Run fans at lower speed for the same temps.

[Shadowman]

3 minutes ago, Lurick said:

More rads = more fans.

So you have two options,

1. Run fans at same speed for lower temps (unless you're at room temp already with a single 360 rad)

2. Run fans at lower speed for the same temps.

Thanks for that, so basically If I run fans at high speed on a single 360 radiator  but adding another 480 I can run all the fans on much lower speeds and still get same temps or maybe lower as a single 360 running on high speed is this correct?

[Lurick]

Just now, Shadowman said:

Thanks for that, so basically If I run fans at high speed on a single 360 radiator  but adding another 480 I can run all the fans on much lower speeds and still get same temps or maybe lower as a single 360 running on high speed is this correct?

Yup, that's pretty much the jist of it  

[Shadowman]

Just now, Lurick said:

Yup, that's pretty much the jist of it  

 

I think If I do actually go for a i9 7900x (a very hot cpu) and  Nvidia 1080 Ti my idle temps will be no where near my room temp on a single 360 with fans running at high speed.

[Lurick]

Just now, Shadowman said:

 

I think If I do actually go for a i9 7900x (a very hot cpu) and  Nvidia 1080 Ti my idle temps will be no where near my room temp on a single 360 with fans running at high speed.

Yah, I would go for a double rad config if you go for the 7900x

[Shadowman]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Yah, I would go for a double rad config if you go for the 7900x

 

I was actually waiting to see the TDP for the AMD Thread ripper 16 core cpu and today it has been confirmed will have a 180 watt TDP no thanks but then again it's 16 core compared to 7900x 10 core. 

[Damascus]

I would personally go with 2 or 3 280mm (2×140mm)  420mm (3×140mm) as you push the same amount of air with less noise or way more with the same amount of noise.