What is needed for a 3 monitor setup?

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I'm just wondering here. Would it be super laggy in 1440-4k if you game on all three? Because if so, then you would have to resort to one and that would suck so it's better getting two ultrawides.

And I didn't want to make a separate thread, but is water cooling RAM and SSD's worth it?
 
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You'd be able to add any amount of components to one loop as long as you have the capacity to cool all of...

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Three 4k monitors is not gonna perform well on anything unless you go for pretty low settings, three 1440p monitors is doable.

I wouldn't say watercooling RAM and SSD's is worth it, unless you're talking about PCIe SSD's.
 
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Yes, talking about PCIe ssds. Would you be able to water cool the ram and ssd in the same loop or would you have to make a separate loop? Because four loops in a build will look waay to messy. Also, when talking about three monitor configs, is it better to go with standard size monitors or ultrawides because if your pc can't handle gaming on all three you will at least have an ultrawide to play on.

 
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Do people do triple monitor setups with ultrawide monitors, or just with regular?

 

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You'd be able to add any amount of components to one loop as long as you have the capacity to cool all of the components in that loop, i.e powerful pumps and rads. I'm not sure what the recommended surface area is for a PCIe SSD, but I know those things get stupidly hot, especially if you 'overclock' them.

This is a guide by JackNaylorPE (also on Tom's) - http://www.overclock.net/t/1457426/radiator-size-estimator

People usually do triple monitor setups with standard 16:9 monitors, but you can go with whatever you want. Three ultrawide curved monitors would be obscene lol.
 
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So it's possible to water cool the RAM and SSD in one loop so you wouldn't have to have two separate pumps and radiators,but the tubing are different sizes though..
 
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Would water cooling the SSD and RAM in one loop have performance increase over two, or vice versa? Because if you're already doing seperate loops for the GPU and CPU then four resoivours will look kind of bad, and I assume that seperate loops will require more tubing so it will be too messy, but then again, seperate loops would probably be colder. And if you did do seperate loops for them, would the 4 pumps give off a lot of heat?
So what's the better choice, seperate loop for the RAM and SSD, or keep them together? And same for CPU and GPU.

 

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The tubing doesn't have to be different sizes, it depends what fittings you use.



If you have enough radiator surface area with one loop, then no, two separate loops wouldn't necessarily perform better.

Any loop I've built, I've always just went with a single loop, not one loop for each component. You just need to make sure you have a big enough reservoir, a powerful enough pump, and enough radiator surface area. Keep it simple with one or 2 loops and you'll pat yourself on the back when it comes to taking them apart for routine maintenance.
 
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