- Sep 26, 2017
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Forgive me for how naive this may sound.
I'm going to be tackling my first water cooling build in the near future and am trying to make a judgement call on which radiator(s) to go with. I'm going to (for better or worse) attempt petg instead of soft tubing and since that will be challenging enough for my first water cooled build, I was hoping to only have 1 rad to worry about.
Popular opinion seems to suggest a 240mm rad for each overclocked main component. My question is - If I want to cool both the cpu (probably will be 8700k) and video card (likely a gtx1070), will going with a 420mm rad instead of 2 *240mm rads give effectively the same cooling?
By my potentially incorrect math, the two 240mm rads will have slighly less surface area than a 420mm rad.
Is this the correct way of looking at it?
I'm going to be tackling my first water cooling build in the near future and am trying to make a judgement call on which radiator(s) to go with. I'm going to (for better or worse) attempt petg instead of soft tubing and since that will be challenging enough for my first water cooled build, I was hoping to only have 1 rad to worry about.
Popular opinion seems to suggest a 240mm rad for each overclocked main component. My question is - If I want to cool both the cpu (probably will be 8700k) and video card (likely a gtx1070), will going with a 420mm rad instead of 2 *240mm rads give effectively the same cooling?
By my potentially incorrect math, the two 240mm rads will have slighly less surface area than a 420mm rad.
Is this the correct way of looking at it?