Multiple radiators on a custom water cooling loop not working

[ṔU̡И͞ISHE̵D ̧S̀И̡AK͏E]

I noticed that if you try to use multiple radiators on a single custom watercooling loop, the game won't recognize it.

I got a Ryzen 9 3950X and two Aorus 2080 Ti Waterforce in SLI and the temperatures are through the roof at over 80 C for both CPU and GPU, on stock. Even if I use two 360 MM radiators, they don't help.

However, if I use the Rajintek ENYO, that supports two separate loops for CPU and GPUs, the temperature goes back down and the system can be overclocked, and still never reach 80 degrees C.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

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This would happen in real life too. In real life a water loop with two 360mm radiators wouldn't be enough to properly cool a 16 core processor and two overclocked RTX 2080 Ti's. If you connected up a loop like that you'd be looking at temps close to that even in a custom water loop.

Also one thing this game does simulate that's near to real life is if you have a video card and processor in the same custom water loop the heat of one component heats up the other component in the loop because they're both connected. I've seen this with OCCT testing it myself in-game. So of course it makes logical sense that if you separate the components so they're in different loops they would run cooler.

None of this is a bug and this is all working normally.

Remember that a 3950X + two 2080 Ti's is roughly 940 - 1000 watts of heat in real life to dissipate. 720mm (360+360) cumulative radiator space is not going to be enough to handle that.

[mr_muhammad]

in this game, I cant custom water cool at all. it sucks cuz ive seen people do it and it looks sick

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Originally posted by squishyman3000:

in this game, I cant custom water cool at all. it sucks cuz ive seen people do it and it looks sick

You have to unlock custom water parts via the career mode and then you will be able to do it after you reach the right level. Or you can go in free build mode and build custom water computers all day if you like.