what coolant?

[haofeng]

I'm building my first wc loop soon and i've been looking at coolant. Feser 1 seems to be quite popuplar, but primochill ice looks good too. Does anyone have any experience with these or have any advice/suggestions as what coolant is best.

thanks

Haofeng

 

[k4p84]

Feser, you dont need to add anything else, its good to go. Non conductive, the works.

It comes in many colours and is available UV reactant as well

ED

 

[haofeng]

cheers for the quick reply. is one bottle generally enough for 1 loop?

 

[k4p84]

That depends on what you have in there .

Get a couple as you have to change out your fluids every 6 months.

ED

 

[haofeng]

just cpu, pump and pa120.2

 

[!TIMMY!]

Depends how much hose and how big ur res is. 1 bottle of feser was fine for me (see link in sig).

 

[haofeng]

"sig"?

 

[k4p84]

Mobo: DFI LP X48 LT T2R | Bios 03/20 | XSPC Delta Chipset

CPU: Intel Q6600 G0 @ 3.3ghz (367 x 9) | XSPC Xtreme

Ram: OCZ PC2-9200 4GB Flex II @ 1175mhz 5-5-5-15 2T

GC: Asus 8800GT 512mb Glacier Edition @ 720/1800/2100

SC: X-Fi Xtreme Gamer

HD's: WD 150GB Raptor & 4 x 250GB WD SE16 (Raid 0) & Seagate 7200.11 1TB

Optical Drives: 2 x NEC DVD Writers

PSU: SilverPower 600w

Case: Coolermaster Centurion 530

Cooling: Custom Water Cooling

OS: Windows XP Professional SP3

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Thats his Sig, ie what's in his system.

One bottle should be fine but having one for topping up couldn't harm matters

ED

 

[haofeng]

thanks man, i was just being thick...:banghead:

 

[k4p84]

We all have our moments

 

[Marcus]

If you've got a Dual Bay Res then your prolly looking at 2 bottles, if you've only got a single bay res or similar, you can probably get away with a single bottle.

I'm currently running 2 Blocks, 2 Rads and a DDC Res Top and with a full litre of coolant in the res is about 1/3 full, enough to run the loop but I topped it up with a bit extra.

 

[Bruce Banner]

I use just plain distilled water, works the same

 

[haofeng]

where can you get hold of that stuff?

 

[cornyfeet]

i find it really hard to find in shops, looked everywhere. i ended up buying some of this:

feser one pure water - from aqua pc

don't even know if its distilled or some other stuff added in. gonna install my w/c kit when i get it.

 

[Bungral]

Distilled?? Get it in a Chemist.

 

[jonnylaris]

Does distilled water not get real cloudy very quickly?

 

[Bungral]

Does distilled water not get real cloudy very quickly?

Dunno... Don't use it

 

[w3bbo]

No it dosn't, it will only cloud if the parts in your loop are not clean. Bottles of distilled are on shelves for months at a time and not once have a bought a cloudy one lol.

Di-ionised water is pretty much the same and much easier to get hold of. Battery top-up water, again is along the same lines. All use different purification methods but the end results is 'pure' water (or as pure as it can be).

I use di-ionised or distilled with a 1 or 2 of drops of iodine. Remember that the more 'crap' (dyes, coolant etc) you add to water the less cooling properties it will have and the bigger chance of tubes, blocks and reservoirs becoming stained.