Watercooling Coolant/Fluid Roundup

JeffyB

JeffyB

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Skinnee has done a nice round up of different liquids to use in your loop. May help people make the right choice and save some money, although most already know this :p


http://skinneelabs.com/coolants.html?page=1

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So basically anything apart from xp Nanofluid then.

Distilled and pt nuke i will be sticking to if i go back to water again, thanks for the link.
 
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Nothing on a killcoil then?
I will be staying with distilled water & a killcoil just to ensure my loop stays clear of gunk.
 
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Nothing on a killcoil then?
I will be staying with distilled water & a killcoil just to ensure my loop stays clear of gunk.
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I'm surprised that they didn't have distilled water on there only as a control. I guess they have the tap water there.

How come the Fluid XP nanofluid did so bad?
 
Is that FluidXP the stuff that OCUK sells or a different one? pretty shocking results from a specialist fluid either way.
 
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I have always said Distilled/De-ionised was the way to go. Damn sight more cost effective than these so called specialist fluids as well.
 
Distilled and a kill coil are deffinately the way to go. Your better off spending the extra these fluids cost on a better block, rad or fans.
 
Yep only thing i have so far for my watercooling is a few litres of distilled and a killcoil and from the research i did that is all anyone really needs none of this fancy costly fluid stuff each to their own and i am a cheapskate :D.
 
hmm good news for me, but do i really need distilled? it will pick up ions immediately, will deonised and nuke be fine? cheers
 
Happy i got a about 5L's of De-ionised for £5, been running it in my loop for a few months with a kill coil, it's clear as i first got it.
 
Im using premix antifreeze after a 4 months or so I pulled it apart and saw no gunking or signs of life so I'm assuimg there wont be any
 
strange to see nanofluid doing so badly

but of course, this means that the testing i have done which entirely contradicts his findings must be flawed.

oh wait, does it mention anything about nanofluid being thicker than water therfore requiring a slightly higher pump speed to push it round the loop as quick?

but of course, skinneelabs is never wrong :rolleyes:

good to see the argument for distilled water and pt nuke is still going strong.

cloudy tubes ahoy
 
Not a surprise, its always been better to use ionised/distilled water.

The worst one i have used has been the feser liquid, it gunked up so much and stained everything.

Now i use Thermochill clear and coloured tubing.
 
I personally think that nano fluid result must be down to an inconsistancy somewhere, either measuring error or some other human error.
 
I would love to know what feser put into water to make it cool better than water alone? That is unless it is just plain distilled?
 
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