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Doing my first watercooling project and just wondering what coolant is the best to use. I will have an all copper loop so I shouldn't need special coolant for a mixed loop.
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It's actually best in most cases, and cheaper, to make your own. I just learned this myself as I am also just starting on water cooling.

Get 100% distilled water, an anti-algae treatment, and a UV Dye of your choice. This way you get an almost infinite supply and temps will be as good or better than the premixed stuff.

Put some water in, put just a drop of the anti-algae chemical in there, then keep adding the UV Due until you get the desired tint you want.

Hope this helps
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It's actually best in most cases, and cheaper, to make your own. I just learned this myself as I am also just starting on water cooling.

Get 100% distilled water, an anti-algae treatment, and a UV Dye of your choice. This way you get an almost infinite supply and temps will be as good or better than the premixed stuff.

Put some water in, put just a drop of the anti-algae chemical in there, then keep adding the UV Due until you get the desired tint you want.

Hope this helps


I'm assuming that the UV dye isn't required. I don't really need colored water
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I'm assuming that the UV dye isn't required. I don't really need colored water

Not one bit, everyone does it for looks. Functionally it does nothing.

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Not one bit, everyone does it for looks. Functionally it does nothing.

Welcome to OCN.NET!

Yea that's what I figured. It's not that I'm not going to do stuff for looks. I plan on using leds on the res and pump and two cold cathodes in the case. That'll come after the system is up and running though.
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Does distilled water cool better than Feser One fluid or other fluids? If I go distilled water is is still non conductive after it hits the rad, pump blocks etc?
Distilled is the best as far as performance. I believe that feser 1 was neck and neck with distilled, but it is also much more expensive. You could most liely get away with 100% distilled and nothing else as copper will act as a mild biocide on its own. I recommend either getting some iandh killcoils (silver coils that kill algae etc.) or some PT nuke to be on the safe side. Either solution will last you a long time.

I use a little pentosin as a UV additive. This helps spot leaks etc. You may also want to add a drop of dish soap to act as a surfactant. This reduces surface tension which make the bubble smaller and can help bleed the loop faster. (I also think this has helped temps a bit, but not much and I am not 100% on that)

100% distilled is non-conductive, but keep in mind, any coolant you use will eventually become conductive as it picks up solvents and ions from the materials in the loop. The best thing to do is leak test thoroughly and prevent the leak in the first place.
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Distilled may be just slightly better for temps, but after my loop was together for 4 months and I had a hose crack and feser one went directly into my psu while it was on with no problem except for the mild coronary I had, I will never switch to water....
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Distilled may be just slightly better for temps, but after my loop was together for 4 months and I had a hose crack and feser one went directly into my psu while it was on with no problem except for the mild coronary I had, I will never switch to water....
I had a slow leak on my chipset block and didnt notice it for a week. My computer was acting weird and I thought it was my OC. I then noticed I had a puddle of feser one fluid under my chipset, cleaned it up and my motherboard still works after all that.
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Distilled may be just slightly better for temps, but after my loop was together for 4 months and I had a hose crack and feser one went directly into my psu while it was on with no problem except for the mild coronary I had, I will never switch to water....
Uh, hello? Feser is distilled based. So you still would have had zero problems had pure distilled been the coolant. It's just marketing hype that it's "non-conductive".
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