best coolant?

[TheCenturion]

What is the best combination of things to use as coolants. something that picks up the most heat from the waterblock, is it feser, or distilled or dionized water or something else, also which coolant doesn't damage your components if spillage occurs?
Thanks

 

[BENdage]

Flourinert, if you can afford it...

 

[TheCenturion]

Flourinert, if you can afford it...

lol, what about stuff for the masses?? mainstream coolant

 

[fulcrumer]

Got to be distilled water

 

[dr. sarf]

Go for Feser - lovely choice of colours too.

 

[matt100]

coolant makes next to no difference to performance. I'd go with feser/distilled and PT Nuke etc to stop algae.

Seriously though, almost anything will be fine, try milk.

 

[Acid_death69]

lol milk! whats that like temp wise? bet it would stink after being in there.

 

[Deleted member 70857]

HAHA! would be so funny if someone tried it. I use Swiftechs own Hydrx coolant. but i think it corroded my Apogee drive as it developed a leak after a month and the res was empty!

no wounder my cpu was 70C after 1 minute

 

[MooMoo444]

Milk would probably eat through your pipes after a while because of the lactic acid etc - the smell would be pretty bad too coupled with the chunky bits clogging the pump

 

[dalin80]

A friend has been using 75% distilled water with 25% car antifreeze, has worked fine for a few years now.

 

[JC]

Not very good at my biology but I'm sure you're milk loop would turn into cheese/yoghurt/butter after a while!

 

[Kelt]

A friend has been using 75% distilled water with 25% car antifreeze, has worked fine for a few years now.

Where can you get distilled water from though?

 

[BENdage]

Where can you get distilled water from though?

You could just make it rather than buy it.

 

[pastymuncher]

Distilled or deionised water (£3-4 for 5Ltr from Halfords) with some Zerex. Cheap and very effective.

 

[TheCenturion]

If i use feser, is there anything else I need to use? like anti algae or something?

 

[p4radox]

Not very good at my biology but I'm sure you're milk loop would turn into cheese/yoghurt/butter after a while!

A minor inconvenience...

Seriously, try milk.

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

UHT milk might be alright. Just run Intel burn tester every couple of days to be sure.

 

[matt100]

If i use feser, is there anything else I need to use? like anti algae or something?

I would suggest nesquik or maybe some double cream.

 

[OliP]

Mustard.

 

[prosser13]

coolant makes next to no difference to performance. I'd go with feser/distilled and PT Nuke etc to stop algae.

FluidXP can increase temperatures by more than 5C over Primochill and Feser if I remember the testing properly