Waterclloing help

mob bob

mob bob

mob bob

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Hi

I am planning a watercooling rig and would like your advise on rigid tubing and
flexible tubing

my concern is with the dreaded plastercizer and I have heard the primochill adv lrt stuff is pretty good but in the event of this happening in any tubing manufacturer what can be the damage to the other components aswell as the tubing ?

is it easy fix once it has occurred and spotted early

Rigid fittings

the primo chill ghost fittings seem to be pretty solid unlike the other brands where there are just 2 o rings which from eye sight don't look that sturdy at holding the tube in and are really meant for the crossfire link between 2 gpu (correct ?)

thnx
 
Plasticizer isnt a danger to your loop/components with good tubing like primochill as it only just makes the tubing cloudy. The fix would be just to replace the tubing.

As for acrylic, i have tried bitspower, ek hd and primochills and can say that they are all safe and secure. Dont think that primochill fittings are the only seccure fitting because it has compression in the name, as it cant compress acrylic like normal fittings compress rubber, it instead just compresses an O-ring to the tubing like the other acrylic fittings. My prefered fitting is the EK HD, it is very secure as it uses two much thicker custom O-rings to compress against the acrylic to seal the water in and keep the tubing in place snuggly. Primochill ones were okay but the compression threads kept locking together and sometimes could scratch the acrylic which is a pain when the rest stays crystal clear.
 
If your concerned about plasticizer EK make a tubing called ZMT (zero maintenance tubing) which I believe is made from Norprene, it will outlast your computer and not leech, the downside being it's only made in matte black.

EDIT: It's actually made out of EPDM, it's the Tygon equivalent that's norprene, in either case the only disadvantage is that the EK one will only take up to about 110c :P
 
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it literally just makes your tubing cloudy as stated above. So just replacing tubing at the same time you should be replacing your fluid anyway
 
Ragnahex said:
it literally just makes your tubing cloudy as stated above. So just replacing tubing at the same time you should be replacing your fluid anyway
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Plasticiser can actually gunk up water blocks, most noticeably CPU blocks with jet plate designs, this reduces flow and raises temps.
 
really? wow never noticed it when taking stuff to bits maybe i don't wait long enough. Have noticed it reduces flow rate but not noticed increased temps
 
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