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Liquid Cooling More than One Component?
static0verdrive asks: "I am new to liquid-cooling, and I have designed a system for use in a micro-ATX OpenBSD server, with the following layout: Fillport > Reservoir/Pump > Y Split (one to CPU and the other to chip-set) > Y Reconnect > Radiator/Fan > Back to the fillport. I don't like the idea of having the hot coolant coming from the CPU going directly to the chip-set, hence the Y split. Could this split cause any problems? Would there be a difference in pressure (considering the CPU is most likely a lot hotter) that could cause an issue? How would you handle liquid-cooling more than one component? What if I wanted to cool 3 components, such as in the case where I add a video card to this setup later on?"
Dude, just throw it in a swimming pool ... and go out and buy a Mac.
WTF?!? It's all fine and dandy that you are trying to ask /. for water-cooling comments but WTF does it matter that it's an OpenBSD box?!? As if you would water-cool a M$ machine differently.
/rant Sorry, just irks me how people use Linux/BSD/whatever as some kind of geek cred deal with no meaning.
Okay, let's assume for a minute that running OpenBSD is significant to the post, perhaps because "it's more stable" or "need's more uptime" then I'd say do NOT water-cool the machine. I'd say this because it's safe to assume that one would water-cool a machine to offset overclocking which is counter-productive to "stability".