im doing a little upgrade whilst i wait for my main money to come through for project genesis

atm i am running a 3400+ newcastle @ 227 x 12 HT @ 4
2gig of Hynex ram
9800 pro/xt thingy
200 gig maxtor ide
2x 160 gig maxtor dimondmax 10's (SATA2 even though i dont have support)
and an asrock 1689 upgrade board
i have a waterchill xtreme system cooling it all down

im moving to SLI and staying on SCT 754 as to keep the fact of buying a new processor in the distance
this upgrade is costing me 535.38 usd or 299 gbp

the new board is an EPoX EP-8NPA-SLI,NF-4

and im going to be running 2 XFX EXT 6600's
512mb ram each
was thinking on how i shold go about cooling them
should i go from cpu - y - y -GPUs -Y- chipset
or CPU 1 -gpu1-Y
CPU2 -gpu2 -Y

the reson im askin is could i not use the antartica waterblock like a y splitter itself as it has 2 outlet ports

Quote: Originally Posted by FuRI0 should i go from cpu - y - y -GPUs -Y- chipset

This makes no sense to me. Are you saying you plan on 2 wyes after the CPU back? If so, the second method is the exact same thing (running the GPUs in parallel) except you don't introduce unnecessary restriction. Remember running in parallel means your GPUs will only receive roughly half of the total system flow rate each.

Quote: Originally Posted by lAnonymousl This makes no sense to me. Are you saying you plan on 2 wyes after the CPU back? If so, the second method is the exact same thing (running the GPUs in parallel) except you don't introduce unnecessary restriction. Remember running in parallel means your GPUs will only receive roughly half of the total system flow rate each.

thats wat im asking should i runn them in paralel or serial
gpu - gpu - next bit or what
would that not put undue heat onto one of the cores ?

If you are concerned about keeping both GPUs as cool as possible you should do them in parallel. If you simply want to keep them cool without fan noise, then serial will work. The difference in each method might be 1C, *maybe* 2 if your GPUs are generating alot of heat.