oh, this forum becomes international...

there isn't really any difference between the influence of large & small tubes.

ronin

Where do you come from?

But is 1/2" not to big?

We use only 1/8"... ;D


Ich weiß... kann net so gut englisch...!

Actually, there is no need for larger tubes. Some times ago we had a thread here about the influence of the amount of wather circling through the cooling elements. It cames out that <5 liter is enought to cool all elements in a system. So there is no need to use larger tubes in a wathercoolingsystem.

I hope this will answer your question!

BTW: In this forum, the most used eheims are: 1246 and 1248.

greetings,

Texx

Zitat von »Texx«

Actually, there is no need for larger tubes. Some times ago we had a thread here about the influence of the amount of wather circling through the cooling elements.

here it is :

http://217.172.178.216/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB…;num=1033928082

slame

Well, i don't thing that the link to the thread will help him, slame! Cause I don't thing that his german knowledge is so well.

But I try to translate the nessesary thing for you:

Hendrik started this thread, cause he made some experiments around the influance of the flowamount.

He test nearly all values from up to 70l/hour down to 20l/hour.

Finally he found out that the temperature will not increase significant, if you pull down the flow from 70l to 20l per hour.

So why use so large tubes, if it is not nessesary?

To answer your question: The influance of the flow is not as mutch as you think of! Or to say it different: More flow will not cause in so mutch better (lower) temerature as tought.

A larger or smaller "Ausgleichsbehälter" has no effect of the flowamount.

Hoping this will answer your Question...

greetings,

Texx

Oh, ok, I understand what you want to say with it. That's true, but is it interesting for you how fast (or not) the reactions are? I think there is no difference if your CPU reaches her max temp in 5 or 10 minutes (for example). What's realy interesting for the people here in this forum is the amount of normal temperature they can reach with a wathercooling system.

...and we will have snow. :-X

it may be right, that in some cases aircooling is more powerful than watercooling. but i can't imagine, that someone would really build a system, that is nearly as loud as a car... ok, that was a bit overdrawn.
and when you see the price for an aircooling-system with many case-fans, there is no big difference in price to a watercooling-system. not to neglect the unbeatable look of a water cooling system.