Setting Up A Split Loop Water Cooling

INTRODUCTION

Since the introduction of the GeForce 6000 series video cards, the need to run alternative cooling on these multi GPU's as become mainstay. With the adding more video cards, comes the added heat these cards produce in our computers. The question remains, how do we set up our water blocks? Do we run these in the everyday standard we have all seen? By daisy chaining each video card to one another? What's daisy chaining water blocks anyways? Well, let's explain this before I continue. Daisy chaining water blocks is where you run two or more blocks together in the same loop example: Res> Pump> Video Card> Video Card> North Bridge> CPU> Rad> Res. The advantages of daisy chaining blocks is hose management. The bad thing is that each block that is added to the loop gets progressively hotter. Not to mention the flow of the water gets lower each time we hook up another component.

So, a lot of us enthusiasts have decided to run multi water cooled loop set ups in our computers. This tactic minimizes the progressive overheating of computer components, like daisy chaining does, and keeps our components at their coolest while at the same time allowing us to keep our flow rate at its highest. The problem is for these types is that hose management starts to become problematic. An example of a multi looped water cooling system is: Loop 1 Res> Pump> CPU> Rad> Res, Loop 2 Res> Pump> Video Card> Video Card> Rad> Res.

When water cooling multiple video cards we still daisy chain the two video cards together. This becomes increasingly problematic when dealing with "High Restrictive" video card water blocks. This guide is a modification of these types of cooling systems, and with a bit of time, luck, and also a lot of patience, they can be integrated into other aspects of water cooling.

So, without further ado, let's get on with the guide.