the best WC coolant?

mmj_uk said:
I'm no water expert but don't you mean de-ionised? :confused:

Distilled water is pure water with 99.9% of the minerals, bacteria etc removed, de-ionised has had its ions removed so it supposedly takes ions from wherever it can to rebalance itself.

I use distilled water and ptnuke phn.
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Distilled water has been boiled off and condensed, leaving most of the minerals and other rubbish behind. Deionied has been passed through a resin (if memory serves sodium is involved), most of the ions and general rubbish adhere to the resin. Distilled is more expensive.

For our purposes it doesn't matter a great deal, once opened CO2 dissolves into it, and once introduced to a watercooling loop a small amount of copper dissolves into it as well.

The rate at which distilled, or deionised, water will attack copper is negligible.
 
Vinni3 @H|H said:
Distilled water + silver kill coil is the way to go TBH.
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This..

Have tried various fluids and this is the cheapest and best solution.

Saying that im using Mayhems ultra pure H20 fluid not as cheap as Tesco/Asda De ionised but still under £10 for 5 litres..
 
yeah I was going to buy more than 1 meter :)

I have a Coolermaster HAF 922 so pretty big case. I could mount the rad outside the case?

I just noticed I may need a fan controller/s Probably going to need 2 as I have only spotted at most a 5 fan controller so maybe 2x 4fan controllers.

Is the noise going to be bearable with 8 fans is the real question, main reason i'm moving is for less noise
 
U need a better case yours is not the most water-cooling friendly case out there

U can fit a 240 rad in the top just remove big fan

U can fit another 240 rad in the bottom if u cut a blow hole for it

And a 120 slim on the rear exhaust

Use a xspc dual bay res with Laing dcc pump saves space

This will allow u to cool CPU and your graphics cards
 
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ewarwoowar said:
Loop like this : Res > Pump > 120.2 rad > CPU > 120.3 rad > GPU > GPU > RES

Would that do? The 120.2 is a slim one which should do fine for the cpu
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So you've got the .2 expelling the gpu heat and the .3 expelling the cpu heat there you realise? I'd do it the other way around myself...
 
Perhaps you would Disco, but as the reality that the entire loop stabilises at a constant temperature (to within 1/2 a degree or so) has passed you by, perhaps you're not in the best position to give advice on this.

The loop order doesn't matter. Reservoir immediately before pump is convenient, but not required.

You can't size a radiator to match a heat source without saying what temperatures you're hoping for. A 240mm radiator will work with 500W, but it'll be considerably hotter than a 480mm one would be. If you want the gpus to be very cool to help overclocking you need a completely different set up to if you want them to be quiet and don't care if they run as warm as they did under stock cooling.
 
Think i'm going to steer away from this for a while tbh.

It was mainly to make it more quiet but also offering but OC which is pretty much not do-able.

You can either go for WC for better OC which or WC for no noise but lose a little OC ability, correct?

I have completly changed my game plan. I've purchased 2 Akasa Apaches, 1 for my Titan Fenrir and one for my back exchaust fan. I have also purchased a fan controller so I can easily manually control these.

I have spoken to another friend who has helped me a bit.
The Akasa apaches are very quiet and also produce a good airflow so should help keep the rig quiet. With the fan controller I can adjust my 2x220mm fans which still shift a lot of air even when they're running fairly slow. Along with the Twin frozr II models of the 580s it should all be able to cool very well!
 
It's pretty much a case of compromising between noise, temperatures and cost. It's fairly easy to get the balance wrong though. You can have near silence and ambient temperatures, but it'll be expensive and probably quite large.

The reasoning behind many people using two loops is that the cpu loop needs to be cold in order to overclock well, but graphics cards are quite happy up to higher temperatures. If they're seperate, you can have a big radiator on the cpu and a small one on the gpu, leaving you with a cold cpu and a hot gpu. The processor then overclocks well, and the gpu is still a lot quieter than with it's stock cooling.

As a bit of an aside which illustrates the above, I've been meaning to rearrange my computer to use two loops with one fan. Cold air blown through the cpu radiator, leaves the radiator somewhat warmer. This warm air is then blown through the gpu radiator. That'll provide me with a cpu loop at the same temperature it was at anyway, and a rather warmer gpu loop. The benefit being I'll only need one fan.
 
One thing I have also learned from this thread is that I will be contacting mr JonJ678 if I ever need help with Water cooling ;)

You've all been so much help but it seems that I will be able to achieve a nice quiet Pc better and much much cheaper with air at the moment. Maybe i'll save up for a future purcahse of one of those double danger den cases to produce a practically silent pc :D
 
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