Kill coil with CPU and GPU -360 + 240 rad

Gregster

Gregster

Gregster

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Hey guys.

Just looking for some confirmation as I have done my usual trick of ordering and then reading the instructions.

I have always used coloured coolants with biocide in but decided to go for distilled water with a kill coil and coloured tubing. After reading up on the kill coil, it says to use 1 kill coil for every half litre, but me being me, I read that after placing the order. Should I order another 2 to be safe or is 1 enough (I should use just over a litre)?

Cheers guys.
 
A quick thought. Would popping in a Sterling Silver earing or 2 work? My order has been shipped but Argos is 2 mins from me.
 
Gregster said:
decided to go for distilled water with a kill coil and coloured tubing
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You're going to need to add some kind of corrosion inhibitor to that anyway to avoid galvanic corrosion over time. Easiest solution would be to just sack off the coil and grab some engine coolant concentrate from the nearest petrol station then mix that 10% with the distilled water.
 
Cheers guys. I didn't realise that I needed to add some other stuff (corrosion inhibitor). I will grab some from the pump tomorrow.

Missed you too Petey and big man hug xxx
 
Brass, copper, silver and nickel are dissimilar metals. Their electronegativity values are close (within 0.03 of each other) but not the same which means galvanic corrosion will still occur albeit slowly. Aluminium is only 0.29 away from copper and you all know what happens when those two are mixed with no inhibitors. (and quite quickly at that)
 
Cheers for the info guys. I still had a bottle of Blueberry and a bottle of red, both unopened so I went with both those. I now have a nice pink :)

GPU all water cooled now as well as CPU. I need to change my sigs now, as only 1 Titan :(

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Cleaned the fans but still showing up the dust :( Cables wiped down now as well.
 
Meoricin said:
You'd only need corrosion inhibitors if you were mixing metals, surely? Plain distilled with a silver coil is plenty.
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Please don't spread misinformation, especially when it can lead to such bad consequences.


Kei said:
Brass, copper, silver and nickel are dissimilar metals. Their electronegativity values are close (within 0.03 of each other) but not the same which means galvanic corrosion will still occur albeit slowly. Aluminium is only 0.29 away from copper and you all know what happens when those two are mixed with no inhibitors. (and quite quickly at that)
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Like this guy says, just because your not using aluminium doesn't mean your not mixing metals. Distilled/de-ionised water will not stay that way for long, it will draw atoms from all the metal in the loop and before long the coolant will be carrying particles of every metal in there, from the silver coil to the always forgotten tin solder in the rad (and for ref those two metals are as dissimilar as copper and alu).
 
Tonester0011 said:
What happened to the other Titan! :(
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Sold sadly Tones to a guy I work with :( I wasn't gaming at all and when I did, it would crash (even after a complete reinstall). After seeing the 1.3v possibility, I want it back. I will have to keep an eye on the second hand market, as I have spent most of the money I sold it for :D
 
Cheers guys. GPU looks lonely but plenty for a single 1080p 120hz monitor. Nice to be back but should be back fully in a couple of weeks ;)
 
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