Coolant problems

[vincegoku]

Need help,

Im using Primochill PC Ice Intensified "Blood Red" coolant, in my loop. Filled it, and about a week later, I look at my res and observed that the coolant had lost its color. It went from Blood Red to almost clear with a tinge of light red. anyone ever get this problem?

Im using Primochll tubes as well, they're the Primochill advanced LRT "Black onyx". Also EK csq gtx 690 acetal+nickel x2, EK supremacy full nickel socket2011, and EK R4F mosfet acetal+nickel. 2x Alphacool Nexxxos UT60 full copper 360x60mm radiators. EK X3 250 res and EK csq D5 top w/ aphacool vpp655 pump.

I did flush my radiators thoroughly with DI water before filling it with the blood red stuff.

anyone with advice, i'd really apreciate it. Im sort of leaning towards the problem being the rads, maybe the dye is sticking to the copper internals of the rads..idk.

 

[Deejeta]

all coloured coolant will lose is colour over time im sorry to say.
dyes in premixed coolants just seem to settle, clog up blocks and make flushing a right pain in the arse.
my advice would be to flush the gunk out. run a different coolant or stick to good old demin water & change you tubing to red.

 

[vincegoku]

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i mean, i've run this coolant before on a different build. One with a phobya g changer v1.2 360x60mm rad, and didn't have this problem for 6 months. At least not this drastic. I really feel like theres a problem somewhere because the dye is virtually gone in just a week.

 

[airdeano]

well if the color is gone, it had to have settled (collected) in somewhere. that's the
new question. and from "blood red" to a red tint color change, that's drastically an
issue. by your description.

a system flush would be in order and if no clumps or patches of dye is found, its
loop disassemble and cleaning-time. prolly mainly contained in the water blocks.
there hasn't been any monster overheating or super-high temperatures at any
one location?

 

[vincegoku]

well, im running a 3970x at 4.8ghz 1.395 vcore (1.2v on vccsa and cpu vtt) high LLC. im getting 71 degrees avg on all cores in occt cpu linpack stress test for 30min. ambient temp is 28, thats a delta temp of 43 degrees. my gpu's are on a medium oc and they idle at 1 degree delta and 13 degrees delta on 100% load. ive always believed my cpu was no getting cooled right, but ive done many config changes such resitting cpu, different tim, changed arrangements in my loop, cleaned cpu block (even though its only 2 weeks old), pushed all my fans to 12v, and i saw no significant dif in my cpu temps. so i searched around the internet n saw that many pple where getting similar temps on water for a 3970x. its just a hot chip. idk, i may be missing something. im going to check all my blocks, flush my loop n run "Sysprep" by Primochill tonight, n see if i get any red dye out of my rads