Loop Maintenance.

Michaeljcox24

New member
It's getting towards the 12 month mark for the length of time I'd had the gpu loop running in my rig. Should I be bleeding the whole thing and a replacing the coolant, or is it ok?

Not had any performance issues / increases in temp since I put it in, and wondering if I really need to do anything.
 
It's getting towards the 12 month mark for the length of time I'd had the gpu loop running in my rig. Should I be bleeding the whole thing and a replacing the coolant, or is it ok?

Not had any performance issues / increases in temp since I put it in, and wondering if I really need to do anything.

I normally strip, clean everything including the blocks and replace the hose and coolant dude. Yearly strip down job
 
lol I had to actually go and check when I redid my loop seems I'm due as well. I normally change out parts before a flush is needed but my last upgrade was in Feb this year. So I'm due. But I normally do it every 6 months if I haven't swapped parts sooner.
 
depends on what it looks like most of the time ur just cleaning out either growth (probably not an issue since you haven't had temp changes) or in some cases staining due to dyes. But its stained and normally doesn't all come off. I normally just give a good flushing and if needed scrub with a soft tooth brush using distilled water and white vinegar with a good rinse with distilled water. Plasticizers might be an issue as well but they will normally rinse right off. Some may get caught in the fins of the blocks so a scrub with the soft tooth brush will aide in their removal as well.
 
My loop has been flushed a number of times, not as part of an intended "service" but rather cos I tinker fairly often. While my loop is stable though, I do periodically check the Ph levels to ensure all is well. To date I've not had a problem and Ph has remained perfect - very impressed with the EK Premix I bought.

A friend of mine, who used a car anti-freeze mix in his loop "nothing will live in that" has had somewhat less luck. When we were pulling apart his loop to fit some new GPU's his coolant looked like someone had triggered a genesis device, there was so much stuff growing it in. The result of our work dislodged much of this life which proceeded to entirely block his CPU block. I did say that such a violent kick-back when turning the the pump off while filling wasn't normal!

Anyway, back on topic, I tend to just give the system a flush with de-ionised water after draining the coolant, before re-filling with my usual pre-mix. My loop is external so I can easily isoloate the blocks within the PC if need be, making draining and filling very easy. I've been running the loop about two years now, though the GPU's have been updated in that time. The external assembly however remains unchanged.

Hope it all goes well for you.

Scoob.
 
Back
Top