Help with custom loop

[Sn1gel_]

I am making a custom loop with parts from EK.

 

I have a D5 pump / reservoir, 360 XE, 360 SE cooling a 1080 Ti, 8700K and a Maximus X Formula. Which order would you recommend? Does it even matter?

 

The two easiest configurations would be:

 

Pump/reservoir > MXF > 8700K > 360SE > 1080 Ti > 360XE > Pump/Reservoir.

 

or 

 

Pump/reservoir > 1080 Ti > 360SE > MXF > 8700K (the order of MXF and 8700K could be changed) > 360XE > Pump/reservoir.

[For Science!]

31 minutes ago, Sn1gel_ said:

 

Nope, it does not matter. Go for whichever you find easiest/prettiest.

[NMS]

Honestly, no, no it does not since you only have 1 GPU.

And the way you plan on setting up the loop is already perfet.

If you had few running in SLI then it'd be a good to go with a seperate loop altogether for them.

[Mick Naughty]

Wont matter. What ever is the easiest or cleanest to do, routing wise.

[OzzyC]

Anybody that tells you something along the lines of 'you need to go from CPU to rad because you need to cool the hot water off before it goes to the next part' is completely wrong. Its all about toal heat being added to the system vs rad's ability to remove heat from the system, dont think of it as individual sections of water getting hot or cold. only really important part here is going to be that the res needs to go directly to the pump

[andrewmp6]

9 hours ago, OzzyC said:

Anybody that tells you something along the lines of 'you need to go from CPU to rad because you need to cool the hot water off before it goes to the next part' is completely wrong. Its all about toal heat being added to the system vs rad's ability to remove heat from the system, dont think of it as individual sections of water getting hot or cold. only really important part here is going to be that the res needs to go directly to the pump

That myth has been tested and busted many times but some people still believe that lol

[Mick Naughty]

Res doesn’t need to go directly to the pump. Can be indirect as well. 

[OzzyC]

8 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Res doesn’t need to go directly to the pump. Can be indirect as well. 

While that is true, and no res is actually necessary at all, I would still advise having the res go directly to the pump and be placed physically above it to ensure the pump has no chance of running dry while being filled. not trying to say it must be done this way, but I would advise it.

[Mick Naughty]

45 minutes ago, OzzyC said:

While that is true, and no res is actually necessary at all, I would still advise having the res go directly to the pump and be placed physically above it to ensure the pump has no chance of running dry while being filled. not trying to say it must be done this way, but I would advise it.

Can’t run dry if have the system need to be filled to even have the res get filled. More design then principle.