Water loop planning

[Elevenbgrunt]

So I'm planning my custom duel water cooling loops. I'm cooling 2x 1080 ti poseidons (stock waterblock) on one loop and my i7 8700k and the mobo vrm on other (its a maximus x formula, so vrm waterblock is stock). My question is I have room for 3 x 480 mm rads what should I put them on? 

Originally I was thinking 2 480 mm on gpus and one 480 on cpu/vrm, but now I'm thinking split it a 480 and a 240 on each loop because I read some posts about how little cooling ppl need with 1080 tis because its so overpowered and atm I'm only overclocking the cpu.

[stealth80]

12 minutes ago, Elevenbgrunt said:

So I'm planning my custom duel water cooling loops. I'm cooling 2x 1080 ti poseidons (stock waterblock) on one loop and my i7 8700k and the mobo vrm on other (its a maximus x formula, so vrm waterblock is stock). My question is I have room for 3 x 480 mm rads what should I put them on? 

Originally I was thinking 2 480 mm on gpus and one 480 on cpu/vrm, but now I'm thinking split it a 480 and a 240 on each loop because I read some posts about how little cooling ppl need with 1080 tis because its so overpowered and atm I'm only overclocking the cpu.

go with 2x 1080tis and 2 480's, I had a 360 and a 240 on my 2x 970's and the kicked a lot of heat out, it was initially on the 360 only and I seen a couple of degree drop on them adding the 240mm. 

[Elevenbgrunt]

3 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

go with 2x 1080tis and 2 480's, I had a 360 and a 240 on my 2x 970's and the kicked a lot of heat out, it was initially on the 360 only and I seen a couple of degree drop on them adding the 240mm. 

How about a 480 and 360 on gpu and 480 and 120 on cpu/vrm?

[stealth80]

22 minutes ago, Elevenbgrunt said:

How about a 480 and 360 on gpu and 480 and 120 on cpu/vrm?

you don't need anymore than 480 on cpu, it just doesn't kick enough heat out to warrant it. Mine was fine on a 360mm with 4790k @ 4.8ghz and the Asus RoG VRMs, i lost nothing temp wise dropping the 240mm out of the CPU loop 

[Elevenbgrunt]

3 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

you don't need anymore than 480 on cpu, it just doesn't kick enough heat out to warrant it. Mine was fine on a 360mm with 4790k @ 4.8ghz and the Asus RoG VRMs, i lost nothing temp wise dropping the 240mm out of the CPU loop 

I'm mostly saying that to make loop piping look even on either side of case, but I prefer performance more so ill go with hour suggestion. My biggest concern was the vrm overheating I've read about but looks like that was due to a manufacturing defect with thermal pad not making complete contact with vrms. Which ill fix if that issue comes up

[stealth80]

2 hours ago, Elevenbgrunt said:

I'm mostly saying that to make loop piping look even on either side of case, but I prefer performance more so ill go with hour suggestion. My biggest concern was the vrm overheating I've read about but looks like that was due to a manufacturing defect with thermal pad not making complete contact with vrms. Which ill fix if that issue comes up

Ive downsized since then, I'm now running a single 1080, ryzen 1700 and VRMs on a 360, 240 and a 120, and its plenty, I totally get the cosmetic purposes though, its reason I went with a crossflow