Watercooling Liquid

[WJA96]

Algae WILL develop in black tubing if a clear res is used.

Not if you start off with a clean system and use medical grade water. There is no source of nutrition beyond light, and even algae can't spontaneously generate nutrients. And there shouldn't be any contaminant algae in there anyway.

Distilled/Dionised water amount to pretty much the same thing - pure water with different purification methods used. Both are commonly used in watercooling due to their conductive (lack of) properties.

Distilled water is very, very different to deionized. It's very easy to make deionised water, that's why you can get it for a few pence in Tesco's. Even though all the ions are removed, non-charged solutes, biomatter and micro-organisms are left behind. Distilled requires huge amounts of energy to boil it and leave all the solutes and biological matter behind.

The trouble with premixed dyes is that all dyes start off life as powder and will, eventually, return to that state clogging up your rads and pin fin/impingement blocks without regular maintenance.

Agreed.

 

[MooMoo444]

So coloured fluids are best avoided? (pre-coloured that is, not self dyed)

 

[WJA96]

So coloured fluids are best avoided? (pre-coloured that is, not self dyed)

Well, I don't use coloured liquids because I once sent a dead motherboard back and it was refused an RMA because they found splashes of UV liquid on the board. That wasn't what killed it, even the retailer agreed that it was dead for other reasons, but ASUS refused to RMA it because it had been splashed with Feser 1.

 

[WJA96]

so just to be clear.. utterly, utterly pointless?

Well, you can always argue that going the last little bit is utterly pointless, but if I have a CPU that maxes out at 65C and I drop it to 64C then that's a 1.5% improvement. If the CPU was at 50C and I drop it to 49C then that's a 2% improvement. At what stage is a 1-2% improvement pointless?

I don't know, but seeing as it doesn't cost anything extra over the fancy blue/green/red stuff, I don't see why I shouldn't have that improvement.

 

[MooMoo444]

Well, I don't use coloured liquids because I once sent a dead motherboard back and it was refused an RMA because they found splashes of UV liquid on the board. That wasn't what killed it, even the retailer agreed that it was dead for other reasons, but ASUS refused to RMA it because it had been splashed with Feser 1.

Well I'll hopefully be watercooling my new ASUS 790i in the very near future, so if they dont accept RMA's because of that.. I'll definitely just stick to water