Posted 20 12 2010 by Koral
Hope you find this useful, please leave comments or questions.
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Posted 16 04 2011 by Russ
water enjoys being full of minerals, so when you use demineralised water, it will try to neutralise itsself by leeching minerasl from the components in your loop[copper/aluminium/brass etc..] tap water is fine as long as you use a corrosion inhibitor in the mix
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Posted 25 04 2011 by richsmif
interesting read, i did a loop with a Laing D5 back in 2006, i find water cooling ace but a real pain to work on. Was nice reading yours to catch up developments since yesteryear as im running my PC in the loft now (VERY HOT!).
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Posted 25 04 2011 by richsmif
i use Fesser one liquid rather than water as it non-conductive too. £9 a bottle for 1L, filled my loop fine.
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Posted 06 07 2011 by Yury
i have just orderd this kit only thing that is not the same in my build is my rad i hope i get temps like ur's this made for a great read!!
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Posted 24 09 2011 by Rex251
Great shared experience, thx.
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Posted 25 10 2011 by Alansupra94
Just letting you know, installing the radiator outside is not a good idea. This will cause temperatures to go below 0 and can cause condensation inside of your computer. Since that condensation is moisture in the air, it will be electrically conductive.
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Posted 25 10 2011 by Koral
Thanks Alan,
Its a more complicated and risky setup but there are things to protect against condensation, like isolating tubing, cpu and motherboard area. I've seen someone do this.
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Posted 09 02 2012 by artichoke
Hi, I just built my first WC loop so your experience is informative. A 480 radiator, wow, you really should put the video card into the loop. It would reduce the noise and also the power consumption, and you could probably cool about six video cards (can you xfire 6 video cards??) with that much radiator!
I don't think the order of components in the loop matters bc the loop cools only a tiny bit each time round, and relies on circulation speed to ensure that the water goes thru the rad enough times to get cooled. Likewise the heat added by pump, cpu and gpus is tiny each time round. So the order makes only a tiny difference to any component being cooled.
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Posted 11 02 2012 by Koral
Great post,
Its no secret that i've considered cooling the video card as well. It would be nice to get rid of the noise and the ugly plastic cover. Thanks!
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