Custom Water Cooling. How much is too much?

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Is my loop going to suffer for too much volume and tubing? I have a dual rad loop (1x 480mm) + (1x 360mm) and some my my tubing routing is quite long and bendy. The loop is cooling CPU only. 150mm reservoir + MCP655 variable speed pump.

Is my loop losing some of its cooling efficiency from being so large and having long tubing routing?
 
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If there was any loop that would suffer from too much volume and tubing it would be mine, running a separate cooling case with tubing running from that setup.

The MCP655 is more than adequate to handle my setup as it has already stood the test of time, so I'm 100% confident it can handle yours! :)

As far as cooling efficiency goes you're running an ambient cooling solution, so even insulating...
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Probably not.
Volume of water doesnt really affect the pump in any way, and actually having a greater volume means it takes longer to hit equilibrium (when water temperature stops increasing from its initial ambient air temp) so you get lower temps until it does.
Distance being pumped can matter, but unless your really talking a long distance it wont affect performance.
 
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If there was any loop that would suffer from too much volume and tubing it would be mine, running a separate cooling case with tubing running from that setup.

The MCP655 is more than adequate to handle my setup as it has already stood the test of time, so I'm 100% confident it can handle yours! :)

As far as cooling efficiency goes you're running an ambient cooling solution, so even insulating your long runs of tubing won't matter.

 
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Thanks Ryan! Always there for me buddy.

I took your advice and seperated my GPU from my loop so the CPU gets to hog all of the cooling to itself.
 
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