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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

I know this isn't the watercooling section, but it is for a Vega, can someone savvy with watercooling loops tell me if this is all good?
(p.s I have a radiator already)


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £233.78 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Illuminist said:
I know this isn't the watercooling section, but it is for a Vega, can someone savvy with watercooling loops tell me if this is all good?
(p.s I have a radiator already)


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £233.78 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Only bit I'd be changing is the aurora fluid as that isn't designed to last long and the sparkly bits just deposit out and clog everything up. Not sure where you think you need the male to male fitting either.

What exact vega card is it being bolted to? I fit an ek block to my powercolor 56 but that was a reference card.

 
Kei said:
Only bit I'd be changing is the aurora fluid as that isn't designed to last long and the sparkly bits just deposit out and clog everything up. Not sure where you think you need the male to male fitting either.

What exact vega card is it being bolted to? I fit an ek block to my powercolor 56 but that was a reference card.

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Agreed the male to male fitting was silly of me.

I've changed the basket to this now, let me know your thoughts.
And yes hopefully the card that turns up on wednesday is just a reference Msi 56.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £255.84 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Illuminist said:
Agreed the male to male fitting was silly of me.

I've changed the basket to this now, let me know your thoughts.
And yes hopefully the card that turns up on wednesday is just a reference Msi 56.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £255.84 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Clear tubing discolours quickly, to avoid this I use coloured tubing.
 
Don't worry about algae. I haven't had any and I have run clear tubing since 2013. No need to use silver coils either as that just adds another dissimilar metal to the loop which will only add to the corrosion risk. Personally, I've used a small concentration of my car antifreeze with distilled water from day one. It does the job I require, by keeping corrosion at bay and preventing algae growth. Approximately 20% antifreeze to 80% water seems to do the job just fine. A car cooling system is a much harsher environment, with more mixed metals, including aluminium and a much larger temperature swing. If the coolant can cope with that environment for 5 years between changes, my pc loop is not going to be an issue. (the car is now 23 years old and still running the original cooling system, so I have some confidence it does the job)

As a quick check back when I first started, I opened up my gpu block after 6 months to check on it and it looked unused. The koolance cpu block was virtually the same when I took that out 4 years later, just a small quantity of plasticizer from the tubing caught in the fins along the jet plate. It came from the xspc uv tubing I used first time around. Most of it came out when I lifted the jet plate out and the rest just washed away under the tap.
 
Just a note, if using old school antifreeze mixes you need to be sure to use quality tubing. A lot of the modern "specialist" tubing is made to a lower standard than the stuff we used to use in PC watercooling back in the day and antifreeze eats it.
 
ubersonic said:
Just a note, if using old school antifreeze mixes you need to be sure to use quality tubing. A lot of the modern "specialist" tubing is made to a lower standard than the stuff we used to use in PC watercooling back in the day and antifreeze eats it.
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Do you have a suggestion as to what tubing would be fit for purpose using this method, and thank you @Kei that's really helpful.
 
Pretty sure mayhem’s tubing is up to the task. I’m using primochill advanced lrt which seems fine. The component that’s nasty in car coolant is ethylene glycol, partly as it’s toxic and partly because it’s an alcohol which can have compatibility issues with some plastics. Most computer cooling fluids use propylene glycol which isn’t toxic but otherwise has similar characteristics. The main tubing that doesn’t like glycol based coolants is PETG hardline.
 
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