PC Water coolant chemistry a good read

Um , I'm not sure if I can post this or not but I found a Article on the properties of coolants for Liquid Cooling Computers . It breaks down and explains everything about the metals you have in a loop , what corrodes other metals , and a lot of things .


It's a long read but very informative . It can be found here: http://www.overclockers.com/pc-water...istry-part-ii/



See what you think of it and from the article , what you would use . Distilled water is a given . Also Silver added has been suggested before as well as not to use dyes . Well give it a read and you'll see what I mean .

[Martin.day]

Yeah everyone on OCN Advises useing distilled water and silver coil over any colured fluid,

But if your wanting colure go for thermochills EC6 best stuff on the market

[Squirrel-666]

ive ran red and blue ec6(not together) and must say didnt get any problems nor did i get any build up when i was using feser one
i am now using mayhems Ultra Pure H20 with a kill coil the way i see it is if you want colour get coloured tubing
if i ever went back to coloured water then it will be mayhems dyes throu and throu.

As for myself , I do not plan on colored water at all . I was looking more at the ph level additives and a Kill coil . I'd like to use the silver coil in the reservoir but am afraid of it bouncing around , making noise and possibly scratching the reservoirs .

[Squirrel-666]

you could put it in the tubing before the res like i have done but i do know some one who has it in his res and doesnt get any problems,scratches noise etc.

[Bry]

I used to run Feser coloured coolant, in the process of moving it all over to distilled water with Silver coils and coloured tubing.

Bry.

[hokiealumnus]

I'll only ever use distilled plus either PT Nuke PHN or a kill coil and all copper, brass or nickel.

That article had great information, but remember it's from 2004. A lot has changed since then and most of those additives aren't necessary. Al will never find its way in my loops, so no need for an anti-corrosion additive either. Take that away and assuming you are going to run above 0°C, you never need to use anything but distilled + biocide.

My $.02.

Well I think I found exactly what I'm going to use . Primochill PC Pure with the Utopia additive and as Squirrel has suggested , put the kill coil in the return line before the reservoirs . Not using any dye , no way no how .

[Squirrel-666]

dont use primochill bud go for Mayehms Ultra Pure H20 its alot better and dont nned biocide etc as the kill coil does it im using it and not had a problem

oh ok....I was looking for the mayhems but can't find it at a retailer here in the U.S. so actually am back to distilled water and just the silver kill coil . As hokiealumnis stated , the other stuff is only nessessary if mixing the metals is in the loop . All copper and brass loops so oxidation shouldn't be a factor and the silver will kill the bacteria .