Question about HydrX additive

Cheekykid

Cheekykid

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I got today the swiftech kid and am a bit confused as to how to prepare the liquid. It says in the instructions:Simply empty the concentrated coolant into a 1liter plastic bottle, and complete filling with distilled water. Your coolant is now ready. It goes on to say how much % i should use as a additive. My question is How do i know if what am planning to use its 5% or 10%? With the eye i can't tell much
 
Well I was thinking more along the lines of a measuring jug you would find in the kitchen... I would guess a lot of home stores and supermarkets will have them.

SiriusB
 
If you're using 1 litre bottles of water, pour out some into a clean cup or glass, add in the addative then top the bottle back up from the cup or glass.

The full bottle of Hydrx added should give 10%, half the bottle 5% etc.
 
I figured it would be easier if i get a syringe to get 10% out of the bottle.

DaveMac said:
The full bottle of Hydrx added should give 10%, half the bottle 5% etc.
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Do i need to add half the bottle for 5%? :eek: i thought its 5% of the bottle into a 1liter of distilled water.
 
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My little bottle of it from my apex kit says:

"2 fl. Oz. - Mix with 1 l. distilled water"

I just poured it into a 1 litre water bottle, made it up to the top with distilled water, and chucked it into the loop.
 
Ok thanks. I'll pour all of it in a 1L bottle. Do i need thermal interface pads for the apogee and gpu block or silicon will suffice?

It's my first watercooling and am nervous so to not screw it up:eek:
 
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DaveMac said:
Thought the kit comes with some Arctic Ceramique? that will be better than any pad.
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It does come with a white tube. I also bought a arctic silver 5 which is very expensive for its quantity. How much do i put on the cpu though?
 
Cheekykid said:
Thx Dave,

Shall i use the one that came with the kit or the arctic 5 one?
Could you also answer tha question i pose here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612202&page=2
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Not much difference between them performance wise, a degree or two tops. Ceramique is safer to use on graphics cards etc. with exposed chip pins as the silver paste is capacitive and could short it.

On the other query you can re-use the liquid as long as there are no contaminants in it, but for the couple of quid cost of changing it's probably not worth the hastle.
It is worth changing the water after approx 6 months use anyway as the addatives loose their effectiveness over time.
 
DaveMac said:
On the other query you can re-use the liquid as long as there are no contaminants in it, but for the couple of quid cost of changing it's probably not worth the hastle.
It is worth changing the water after approx 6 months use anyway as the addatives loose their effectiveness over time.
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I wanna try running the kit before placing in the case as am uncertain as to how to place the reservoir and radiator considering that they shouldnt be next to the pump. Would it be ok if i place the kit right next to my old pc and water cool it? as that case ain't big enough to accomodate it. This would be a testing and kinda getting me into the game of water cooling.
 
Cheekykid said:
I wanna try running the kit before placing in the case as am uncertain as to how to place the reservoir and radiator considering that they shouldnt be next to the pump. Would it be ok if i place the kit right next to my old pc and water cool it? as that case ain't big enough to accomodate it. This would be a testing and kinda getting me into the game of water cooling.
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You could safely run it for a few days just on distilled or de-ionised water without any addative.
Then just buy more water to save replacing the Hydrx.

What case are you fitting it to?
 
Hi Cheekykid,

Your at the stage I am at. Was trying to leak test my kit last night until the pump started leaking, realised I had missed putting the O-ring in it DOH!! Your also using the same case as me :D and yes its a good choice. I am also a first time watercooling noob lol. Now I havn't chosen a kit gone custom but I still assume you have to cut up all the tubing? So the best thing to do and what I am doing is to fit the CPU and GPU (if you have a GPU that is) and then get all the tubing and positioning of the reservoir sorted etc. Then just take the blocks of and put a towel on the center divider of ** case and put the blocks on that. Remove everything from your case apart from the watercooling stuff and then hotwire a PSU. Then just fill ** loop and test for 24hrs that way nothing is going to get damaged if there is a leak. Then when you know the loop is leak free just install everything into the case that way you don't have to empty the loop either just screw the blocks to ** mobo and graphics card.

If that made no sense let me know will take some pictures of how I did it.
 
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