best coolant?

TheCenturion · 25 Aug 2008 at 22:43

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 · 25 Aug 2008 at 22:59

Flourinert, if you can afford it...

TheCenturion · 25 Aug 2008 at 23:12

BENdage said:
Flourinert, if you can afford it...

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

fulcrumer · 25 Aug 2008 at 23:22

Got to be distilled water

dr. sarf · 25 Aug 2008 at 23:46

Go for Feser - lovely choice of colours too.

matt100 · 25 Aug 2008 at 23:48

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 · 25 Aug 2008 at 23:52

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

Deleted member 70857 · 26 Aug 2008 at 09:40

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 · 26 Aug 2008 at 09:43

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 · 26 Aug 2008 at 17:37

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

JC · 26 Aug 2008 at 18:15

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

Kelt · 26 Aug 2008 at 18:21

dalin80 said:
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 · 26 Aug 2008 at 18:29

KelticDaz said:
Where can you get distilled water from though?

You could just make it rather than buy it.

pastymuncher · 26 Aug 2008 at 18:40

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

TheCenturion · 26 Aug 2008 at 23:13

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

p4radox · 26 Aug 2008 at 23:16

JC said:
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 · 26 Aug 2008 at 23:25

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

matt100 · 27 Aug 2008 at 00:17

anant_shah94 said:
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 · 27 Aug 2008 at 02:54

Mustard.

prosser13 · 27 Aug 2008 at 03:16

matt100 said:
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

best coolant?

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