watercooling ideas - help needed

[MR POO]

hello everyone i have a few ideas floating about and wondered if anyone could tell me if this would work ok.


i have a zalman reserator i got it cheap as i moved to the usa, my plan is to rip out the gay little pump, put in one of the new all powerful dd ones or the new swifty, whatevers quietest, but i was wondering what size tubing the zalman uses, is it 3/8?

because i want to use the zalman just as the reservoir, then ill put a rad of some sort in and one of the new powerful pumps - i sould get pretty good perfomance with this i imagine.
now can i leave the zalam pump in and have the 2 going - so whenver i want total silence i can turn the big pump off and the rad but if im gaming i can crank it up?

this is all ideas i have floating about so let us know what you would do.

thanks alot.

[mrplow]

I don't know if you could force water through the zalman pump faster than it's rated flow... I imagine you could, might take a slight hit to the rate though... and probably not too good for the zalman pump. And more importantly, if you turned off the "big" pump you'd probably stop the flow near enough altogether. So I think the extra pump in series idea is pretty much doomed.

You could try having another pump (and the rad?) in a parallel loop with the reserator. That way you really would be choosing between one or t'other.

[MR POO]

yeah, i may just use the higher rated pump idea, any idea what size tubing the reserator uses - i want to swap out the solid blue stuff - at least if i get a 12v pump it will start when my pc does - its really easy to forget to start the zalman one as it needs a seperate plug - thats one of the main reasons i want to ditch it.


nothing is more scary than to come home to find someone just browsing the net on ya pc and they have not put the pump on - people just dont understand.


on its own i dont think the zalman pump would have the juice either to push water through a rad also.

[Starbuck3733T]

why bother ditching the reserator as a radiator? that's what its designed for. if you're upgrading the system, keep the block for the reserator and loose evrerything else, no point in keeping a passive rad if you're going to add an active one.

[MR POO]

yeah, true i see your point but i wanted a way to up its performance a fair bit - i planned on using it in conjunction with a rad maybe.

im going to need some extra juice if i add any more blocks to the system - thats a good point tho it would probably work out cheaper for me to run a dual reserator system anyway by miles, i can pick them up for 120 quid here all inc.

the zalman block looks a bit like a rip off of the cuplex evo - is this block better suited to low flow - so will a higher rated pump be a waste of time?

thanks

[mrplow]

Where are you getting a full reserator kit for £120?

[fillip]

I'm sure he said earlier in the thread he had just moved to the U.S. :unsure:

[Pug]

Hi Mr Poo. Welcome to WizD. :)

Don't have a reserator or Zalman block to answer your questions categorically but low-flow blocks generally tend to have a thick base and a lot of internal surface area.

Not having worked with what you have there, it's hard to comment at all until I see exactly what you're working with... any chance of pics/measurements?
What fittings does your reserator have?