COOL!
Just tell the bank manager to go talk to SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED and get back to you later. She will spend so much talking to the mirror she will forget about your new toys.
As I understand the current AS2012 the pumps tab is only for the Aquastreams. I have the AC D5 connected via USB and AQB, no change. Yours will show up in the fans section, just rename it pump and forget about it.
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Now for your open question.
Yes and No. The fan/pump speed is not calculated at all. It is adjusted as temperature changes based on the controller you set up. I use CPU outlet temp to control the CPU rad, and Radiator inlet temp to control the main radiator fans.
First, I am a Mechanical engineer with 20 years experiance in Thermodynamics. While each of the things you mention can be true in a specific situation, the actual Laws of Thermodynamics are that Q=mcp(T1-T2) and Q=UA (T1-T2) (The greek letters dont work in ASCI) Bottom line, Faster flow of air or collant means faster heat removal rates. For computers, if you change pump flow from 50lph to 100lph, you get twice the amount of heat removed. Period. That does not mean that readiator outlet temp is cut in half. In fact, in some conditions, it may in fact go up a tad. But not really. Coolant residance time in the fins is B.S. Unles we are talking about pump cavitationa and vortexes in tubes, and laminar vs turbulent flow (Which is part of the U in the second equation)
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With a WC computer the heat loads are so small compared to measurement errors that the equations are foolish. They are a lot of fun, but really dont reflect actual thermodynamic facts. What we need to consider in computers is NOISE and not frying the chips during max loads, either games or benchmarks.
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I sugest you set up the pump(fan 5) as the output of a curve controller with CPU outlet or radiator inlet or radiator outlet as the sensor.Run the computer for 30 minutes at idle, no load situation with pump and fans at minimum. Record the temperatures. Then max out the computer , graphics benchmarks, cpu benchmarks or games, or video editing, whatever the highest useage is and run that for 30 minutes and record the temps with pumps and fans at minimum, and then max out the pumps and fans for anouther 30 min and record those temps. Use the numbers from the second run to set your alarms, ie highest load, minimum cooling. Use the other two as starting and ending points for pump and fan curves.
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Personally, I have the pump running at 50% minimum with fans at 30%, then the pump ramps up to about 75% before the fans reach 50%, the pump goes 100% before the fans reach 75%, and then the fans max out after that.
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Personally, the most fun with the Aquasuite and Aquaero 5 is playing with the control curves aand running tests to see how it works out. Mine is a little more complicated because I have a single 120mm radiator between the CPU block and my dual SLI GPU cards, then MB, RAM and AQ5 blocks to a tripple 120mm radiator. Plus I have two fans cooling the HDDs, all six of them, and one more as a case exhaust fan. I have the fans pulling air into the case to maintain positive pressure inside the case to reduce dust buildup, which means my case ambient temp is equal to the radiator air outlet temps, which is why I have WC on RAM and MB. I lost a bit of air flow through the radiators doing it this way, but the dust problem is gone. So I am Happy. At MAX load, my UPS reports 650 watts of power usage, and the AQ5 reports change between 300 and 800 watts.
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Go ahead and run the three base line test, and then have fun! You can manually adjust the points on the curve controller to arrive at the old high school bell curve if you want. Just click on the red dot on the curve and move it.
Enjoy!
Larry