Question for ya, do you have the water going from the GPUs to the CPU? That's why you might be noticing not that significant of a drop in temperatures of the CPU because the hot water from the GPUs is trying to cool the CPU. When I was speculating I took into consideration getting two reservoirs.

Looks sweet, although the anti kink coils take away from the looks a little imo. How did you like working with the HAF-X? They are a great case and I had very few problems putting water in mine.
As SDub said, adding the GPU temps into the cooling loop would cause the added cpu temp, dependent on which way the coolant flows.
What are you using in the loop to keep the nasties away?

Question for ya, do you have the water going from the GPUs to the CPU? That's why you might be noticing not that significant of a drop in temperatures of the CPU because the hot water from the GPUs is trying to cool the CPU. When I was speculating I took into consideration getting two reservoirs.


I used to think that way when I first built my loop. I originally wanted 2 independent loops until some folks on ocn did some tests using 1 vs 2 loops. So, when they ran 1 all inclusive loop, irrespective of loop order, after around 10 minutes under a reasonable load all temps normalized. Normalized meaning no matter how the loop was done order wise, temps remained the same on cpu and gpu. When they ran dual loops (loop, pump, res, and rad) some temp differences were seen. The biggest differences were seen when running a gpu and cpu with huge differences in typical temps. Overall I think it's a lot of work to run dual loops for a minimal gain. Dunno if the way I worded this makes sense and Ill try to dig up the thread in ocn.....Cool 1st loop build though congrats. Heatkiller makes some great stuff

I am thinking of going water on my next comp. Spent 3.3K on current comp over2 years and would seek to reuse some parts.