How often do you change your water and clean out your Rad etc ?
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^Same.
If you've got some decent coolant in there, you should need to ever need to flush out the system (unless it's been sealed for like 5 years). What you should be doing quite often is blasting dust out of fans and rads - that's where all the problems come from
If you've got some decent coolant in there, you should need to ever need to flush out the system (unless it's been sealed for like 5 years). What you should be doing quite often is blasting dust out of fans and rads - that's where all the problems come from
For me, the only reason for actually replacing water and/or cleaning our rads,blocks etc is if the cooling performance has noticabley degraded over whatever period. So just make a note of how your pc temps change over time. Perhaps have a set routine of running orthos or whatever for an hour every three months, making note what the ambient temp is, and plotting the max cpu temp.
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Never done mine at all. Been going for around 4 years now with no probs.
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I clean it every month. It clogs really fast because I use tap water and the dust gets in which forms a gunge.
I also have to keep refilling it everyday because it evaporates and the reservoir leaks a lot.
I also have to keep refilling it everyday because it evaporates and the reservoir leaks a lot.
you must have had to refill it a couple of times, I don't see any components over a year old I don't think so there must be a bit of block changing going on?
(I suspect you were joking)
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Nope. I have the same pump (Aquaextreme 50z), Radiator (Nexxos Extreme lll) Reservoir (250mm XSPC passive) and block's that i originally started out with. Aquaextreme MP-05 Pro Limited Edition on the cpu, MP-1 on the GPU, XSPC Delta on the NB. All i do when i change components is to hang the blocks and tubing over the side of the case. Never seen any point in changing blocks just for the sake of a couple of degrees. The loop has been attached to a 754 rig, then a 939 rig and through four 775 upgrades. Pump and reservoir are in a box seperate to the pc with their own AT Switching psu and the radiator is mounted in another box on the windowsill. The only bit's that are actually in the pc are the blocks. The only maintenance i have done is top the water up every now and then. Even then it's not very much. Most of the current pc components are from this year by the way.
Lol it evapourates you must be running at 100 degrees+?
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Tap water in an open reservoir? You're making so much work for yourself!
I think you'll find the gunge is probably algae. Without any anti-algae in your coolant it will grow and coat everything in your loop. I shudder to think what it is actually like tbh.
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I use a large plastic 30litre container on top of the case as a reservoir. I cooled it with fans blowing air into the water. Its a lot easier than using radiators but if I left it on with the window closed moisture condensed on the ceiling. My jackets went mouldy due to moisture. I don't recommend this cooling method.
I just recently changed the design, I now use a radiator and I've covered the reservoir with clingfilm to keep the dust out.
I just recently changed the design, I now use a radiator and I've covered the reservoir with clingfilm to keep the dust out.
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You could have kept the wind up going if you'd been able to scale the escalation in stupidity with more subtlety. Instead you got too greedy too soon. Btw, that is a waste of clingfilm, simply mount the fans in a pull-pull arrangement either side of the rad. No dust is getting in that way.