steglegs

now purchasing watercooling bits, what do i use coolant or de-ionized water,
thanks

PetrolHead

De-Ionized water + Anti freeze and your good to go

You can also use WatterWetter or Zerex as a substitute for the Anti Freeze

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steglegs

is this any good, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Zalman-ZM-G100...QQcmdZViewItem

Transonic

Just use distilled water and add 5% coolant with anti corrosion properties, that's it.

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bigvaL

Like transonic said, get a jug of distilled water from the grocery store, fill up your entire loop and then add 2 capfuls of the zerex. It's also a good way to make sure the way is making it around the loop, dump the zerex into the right side of the resevoir (or whichever side is sucking the water) and then watch the other side to make sure the zerex blasts out the other side.

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SomeRandomGuy

Anti freeze is a no-no. Anti-freeze cannot absorb heat or bleed it away. They only put it in cars to avoid letting the water FREEZE, or boil. So unless your exposing your cooling system to extreme sub-zero temperatures, don't put in antifreeze, it'll cause your CPU temperatures to rise, even though your water temp might fall. It just traps the heat, the opposite of what watercooling is all about. Anti-corrosion agents are helpful though, for obvious reasons.

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tylor360

I would use zalmann's new Coolant....I am getting great temps with it ...And it's blue!

kilokalex

You might wanna look at this. One day when the new orleans core arrives Im gonna give it a go.

http://www.royalpurple.com/prodsa/prpice.html

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CrimsonMango

heh... you people make this too complicated


get a gallon of distilled water, and then add 5%-10% of any antifreeze (zerex is no different from any other antifreeze besides the color!!! understand!!!)


any any additive designed for cars, such as water wetter and purple ice, etc. do not help at all in WC systems - the water in our WC loops does not reach 200+ ºF, so at the temperatures that our systems operate at, you will see absolute NO cooling benifit with X additive whatsoever, most times it will make temps worse, because water by itself has proven to be the best heat conductor when used for PC water cooling applications

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fstfrddy

I use Distilled Water and Zerex @5%