Product Information

This reviewer and Overclockers Tech cannot afford to have a ‘favourite’ brand of fluid in order to keep an objective view. However, we are still human, and in all honesty it will take a lot to pull us away from Thermochill’s EC6 range. This writer has been using the latter-mentioned for a couple of years. Having said this, what counts the most is performance and alternatively some may say that it is also about looks. So towards that end this review attempts to cater for both.

Let us start by introducing the pastel range of fluids:

“Mayhems Pastel range of ‘Nano’ coolants have been in development for over two years in co-operation between Ice Dragon Cooling and Mayhems. This new range of coolants surpasses anything in the market place at the moment with its outstanding colours and cooling power.”

We ‘oldies’ at Overclockers Tech’ can remember playing with pastel chalks as a child and scribbling in lovely shaded colours on the pavement. Rather like our fellow guru ‘Lvcoyote’ whom was present at Woodstock whilst listening to ‘colourful’ music; erstwhile watching the pretty lights in the sky-ahem, need we say more?

Yes you got it, rather than loud headache inducing colours, which are produced from a certain substance, this is more like the mellow type that a clapped out hippy would experience during a ‘flash back’

Anyway, the aforementioned fluid comes in a series of colours (we have had to use the product photos from ‘Mayhems’ as we only have one colour pastel to test with) of which are demonstrated below:

Blue Berry and Chocolate Brown

Gigabyte Orange and Grape Red

Ice White and Light Red

 Mint Green and Perfect Pink

 Rasberry Purple and Sunset Yellow

As for the colour scheme of the products, we find them more than acceptable-bar only a few. The mint green, orange and the light blue colour are the very definition on what pastel colours should be like, followed by the grape red and the ice white. However in all honesty we do not like the chocolate coloured one very much as it looks like a case of when your child has quaffed the chocolate milk on the sly and then tried adding water to fill the level back up so nobody would notice. The Raspberry Purple doesn’t look like the latter mentioned colour, and lastly the pink is just a matter of preference really.

Going back towards the ‘Ice white’ there is a sneaking suspicion that this is more white than milk. Shall we find out? Go on then let us have a look!

When they said ‘Ice White’ they weren’t joking.

Next we have the X1 fluid. This one they rate for performance level and in our testing later in the review we will just have to see if it can live up to its name.

This is what Mayhem’s have to say about the X1 Range

“Mayhems X1 is based on a proprietary blend of refined vegetable extracts that are fully biodegradable and have a very low order of oral toxicity. It comes with a Child Safety Cap as well as a spout so you can fill all manner of systems easily.  The X1 has slightly better heat transfer and flow characteristics than propylene glycol for systems operating between + 50°C to – 8°C.”

As with all of the company’s products, with the Ultra Pure H20 being the exception, Biocides are not needed in any form. Overclockers Tech likes the idea of not having to mess around with adding products such as PT-Nuke and so on. However we all know the general dislike ANY true water cooling enthusiast has of ANY pre-mixed fluids, so it will take a lot to convince us otherwise. The latter mentioned is especially true when yours truly has experienced the below issues when with some other fluids. Please note this is a genuine case of a customer of ours that had a serious issue of his processor reaching 90 degrees Celsius (At stock) on full load.

The reason could have been this:

Now being reasonable we all know that occasionally some fluids will have their issues, and the manufacturers address these concerns quickly. However, on the rare occasion that it DOES happen, then it does cause some consternation amongst the former-mentioned enthusiasts.

Lastly just like the pastel range the X1 comes in a myriad of differing colours which include: UV Red and Blue, Clear, Orange, UV Green, Purple and Blood Orange. However for the purposes of review we have chosen X1 clear today.

Let us now get on with the testing.

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