coolant questions

Adnan769 · 20 May 2006 at 21:20

I've been to a friends house and he showed me his 2 week old water cooled system. He uses a swiftech kit with dual fan radiator to cool his CPU and GPU. He told me that he used cars water coolant for the system. Now I'm not sure if this is ok or not but will this affect the cooling components as I heard that the additives supplied with kits provide sufficent lubrication for the pump.

the thing is, if this was possible then why would most people bother with mixing all sort of stuff :confused:

any info really appriciated.

Adnan769 · 20 May 2006 at 21:48

daven1986 said:
as that provides less cooling ability than pure distilled water. people mix stuff to get the best protection for their watercooling system with the best cooling ability.

basically if you want the best cooling ability just use distilled water.

daven

Thanks for the quick reply, I know that distilled water is the best and thats why I said most people wouldn't bother but the thing is that I wasn't sure that the components wouldn't get dameged due to the lack of the lubricating additives.

Adnan769 · 20 May 2006 at 22:10

Ok thanks guys... much appriciated

Adnan769 · 21 May 2006 at 14:31

daven1986 said:
you are ok if you only use copper waterblocks with distilled water. if you mix copper and aluminium blocks then you will need an additive to stop corrosion however mixing the two is generally thought of as a waste of time as it causes a lot of hassle and shortens the life of your blocks.
you don't need a lubricant for certain pumps e.g. the laing dcc as it lubricates itself with the water. im not even sure you ever need a lubricant for any pumps. i'd go with plain old distilled water.

daven

well its not just the blocks as some people have aluminum radiators so will it be ok if some car coolant is added to the distilled water, if it provided corrosion and algae protection that is.

Adnan769 · 21 May 2006 at 17:17

Thanks for the info everybody.

Adnan769 · 23 May 2006 at 02:31

Well in my opinion, if you play safe then you wont be very sorry if anything went wrong, but if you kept pushing it and you busted your system then just blame your own curiosity and fiddling habbits

. Personaly, I went for Gigabyte water cooling kit for my current rig as I wanted to try water cooling yet I was worried about messing it all up as it is potentially more devestating than normal air cooling in the event of things getting seriously wrong. For my next rig though, I plan to have a proper watercooled setup for the CPU and GPUs as I got to know things significantly better than I was 9 months ago.

More importantly, thanks for the replies guys.

Adnan769 · 25 May 2006 at 22:05

WoW, I see that this thread is still alive

I did some research on zerex and found a lot of people saying that its better than water wetter in terms of thermal and anti-corrosion properties when used with distilled water.

Got to say, keep it up guys as its feels good to have better knowledge and understanding

Many thanks to all.

Adnan769 · 26 May 2006 at 04:51

ichabod crane said:
water wetter smells like the devils love juice!

If it is to be rated on a scale from 1 to 10 where a skunk scores 10, what would it score????