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Watercooling help.

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So i just got all my watercooling stuff in the other day and finally got it all in place and started the leak test yesterday. My config consists of the swiftech gtz cpu block, swifttech 220 rad, mcp655 pump, danger den acrylic 5.25" drive bay res and feser tygon tubing all 1/2" and PC Ice water. Anyway...i set it all up, started my leak test and i was getting white foam. I knew this would most likely happen because with my setup, it was very hard to get water in the entire system without some amount of air getting trapped. So i let it run w/o the cap on for quite a few hours bleeding all the air out. Its almost completely filled to the top with water atm. Now im to the point where theres barely any bubbles in the res. The trouble im having is if i drop the speed on the pump to 3ish, the water becomes perfectly clear in a matter of minutes but as soon as i bump it up to 5 again, the "foam" comes right back. I tried searching this multiple times and im sorry if its been brought up a lot. I'm at work so no pics atm but if there needed i can upload some in a few hours. Thanks for the help.
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stay on 2 like mine for cpu cooling bump the speed if you going to add more. ie chipset and gpu.
White foam where?
At the top of your res?
Na its going through the entire loop. Its not so much foam anymore its more like what water looks like coming out of the faucet like i guess real miniscule bubbles you could just in very large amounts so it makes it look very hazy.
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Na its going through the entire loop. Its not so much foam anymore its more like what water looks like coming out of the faucet like i guess real miniscule bubbles you could just in very large amounts so it makes it look very hazy.
Like hard water?
Water with pressure?
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try a mixture of distilled water and swiftech coolant and see if that happen.
Sounds to me like you're cavitating the pump. To much RPM. Is the tank the highest part of the setup?
Yes the res is in the top bay of my antec 1200 im going to post some pics in the next few mins
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Well ive been screwing with it all day and its gotten better.. It seems if i just leave it on 2 or 3 it should be fine. Here are some pics

Thats the foam that forms when its on 5



This is how it is now on 3ish...theres still some bubbles i cant get rid of...



Heres just a few of how its coming along





Btw im never going with a bay res again lol....The recessed screw hole is just a pain in the ass imo
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