Water cooling

rodders · 22 Nov 2007 at 22:06

How much maintenance is there to do?

How often to flush, re fill etc...?

Trying to work out if I can be bothered, lol

w3bbo · 22 Nov 2007 at 23:18

If you set it up right it wont need any maintenance.

rodders · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:06

Cool, cheers.

Well once I got a stable air overclock, cause ive only started to learn, I can get some water cooling and push it further. Plus ill have some time to save some pennies.

ledbythereaper · 23 Nov 2007 at 08:52

Depending on what you're watercooling it can end up expensive, I'm going to be spending around £300 on all my watercooling stuff

rodders · 23 Nov 2007 at 19:32

I was thinking CPU and GPU, not worried about the chipset. And tbh I cant remember if it has a fan or just a heat sink.

matt100 · 23 Nov 2007 at 20:51

rodders said:
How much maintenance is there to do?

How often to flush, re fill etc...?

Trying to work out if I can be bothered, lol

I just emptied a year old loop and the water was crystal clear with no additives so basically 0 maintenance (I emptied it to change components not maintain it lol)

Darkman · 24 Nov 2007 at 09:50

Same here.

As long as it's clean water (I just use filtered tap water) and everything is sealed you should be able to minimise any maintenance to when you change something.

The newer fluids sound flash, but I'm not sure if they're necessary.

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Perfect_Chaos · 24 Nov 2007 at 13:40

why spend all that when u can get an external waterkeg (custom made) by Newls on XS? it has all the top stuff and would only cost about 150 squid or so from the U.S.

Thats what id rather get, saves clogging up the inside of your case aswell.

rodders · 24 Nov 2007 at 14:54

You got any links/pics mate?

Sounds good. Im prefering an external unit.

rodders · 24 Nov 2007 at 15:08

Found the site and info on it. Looks cool, there some on the market like that, but his looks more basic, a better thing, thus cheaper and does a great job!