is it bad to have to many 90 degree fitting

[kyle_L]

is it bad to have to many 90 degree and 45 degree fitting in a loop. for a rough estimate on how many i would say 10-12 90's and a 4-6 45's. i want to get rid of as many sharp bends as i can in my loop.

[MpG]

They're not as bad as many people make them out to be, especially if you have a strong pump. But if you've got that many elbows, I think you really need to look at your system and ask yourself if there's a better way of doing things.

[Liu Kang]

Originally Posted by MpG

They're not as bad as many people make them out to be, especially if you have a strong pump. But if you've got that many elbows, I think you really need to look at your system and ask yourself if there's a better way of doing things.

Agreed.

Every WC build has a bottleneck somewhere, meaning that something within the loop(s) is the least efficient component. I always say that a loop is only as good as it's weakest component...

That being said, unless your loop has excessive tubing and 90 degree bends, chances are your bottleneck would be a weak pump, a restrictive block/rad, inefficient rads, etc.

Like MPG said, if you need that many 90s you might need to take a closer look at your WC layout and make changes accordingly. Then again, I am building an mATX WC rig, so who am I to talk... :)

[ChuckleBrother]

I can't even begin to imagine WHY any loop would need that many 90's and 45's.

+1 to the above statements, as long as they are free-flowing(BP are pretty good) you should be fine.

[kyle_L]

i dont need any of the fitting except one 45 that's on my south bridge that sits on the vidcards, its not the proper block. what i want to do is instead of having all the tubing come off the block and out away from the mobo i want it all to lay almost flat. here are all the bends i have and the is great flow throught my loop compared to when i had just a cpu block. here is a pic of all the bends