i've seen what leaks and condensation can do IRL. my water cooling setup i'm doing on my system, while beingthe first on my own equipment) is not my first one. i've done three water cooling setups and one WC w/TEC. the first WC setup i did was back in 2000~2001. there were leaks as i told my friend that he needed to let it run for 24 hours for leak testing, which he did. but then i told him once he move the blocks around off from their zip tied locals, that when he mounted them to his equipment, he needed to run the WC using the 12v jumper with the block bolted in place with brown paper towels to see leakage easily. he wanted to just mount the blocks and go since it passed the 24 hour test. but since he had moved the block to mount them, some leaks occured. the cpu leak ran all the way down the left side of the mobo and some on the vid card. it was easy enough to clean up tho, i told him to buy some PCB Cleaner and i sprayed it on and used the brush then wiped it off and let evaporate. problem solved.
this was way back when there was no such thing as WC Kits and the std. was vinyl hose and everything was push on barbs and AC pumps that buzzed all night, lol, and the best liquid to use was the WW + distilled.
then he wanted to try Peltiers TEC cooling unit so i gathered up what i could find from my research, mostly procooling.com stuff. i told him to read it as i already had, but being the typical guy, lol, didn't read the "instructions" and just mounted the TEC under his, now upgraded Maze3 block. i told him it was goingto cause condensation and that he needed to ues dielectric grease to coat the inside of the socket, backside of the mobo where the socket was located, the WC block itself. then place neoprene everywhere he placed the dielectric grease. but he ignore me.
so, i've still got the mobo that he damaged beyond repair, lol. it'll boot into windows but crash right away. you can see the greenish chemical coating all over the resistors around the socket, on the pins of the cpu, and not really much on the backside of the mobo. i tired cleaning that off but it was soo think that it just would come off. i tried another cpu in it and it wouldn't even post, lmao. He really fux0rd that thing up bad. lol. he then took my advice and bought a new mobo and a 2.4 P4 ran maze3, eHiem, BIX (the parts i wanted him to use in the first place, lol). and he ran happy at 2.9ghz+ for a while out of it.
so, i have experience, this water cooling isn't a chellenge for me to do. i just want to find out every single option and what those options might do. I would prefer an integrated WC system, but the EXOS 2 with it's dual 120's instead of the orig EXOS with the 2 80 intake and one 80 exhaust, is much improved for sure.
i bought my CM Stacker case for a specific reason, water cooling. the EXOS won't fit on top of a Stacker case anyways. i bought the Asetek Waterchill Extreme kit. yes it's a friggin kit, but i thought it'd get me up and running the quickest. later i can change the generic like looking VGA and Chipset blocks. i've already had to move them for clearence, lol. i have the "white water" clone block, the Antartica, the vga/chipset blocks, 3/8ID 1/2OD silicon tubing, Daul BIX w/Quad 120s, 285gph (1020L/hm) DC high pressure (average volume) mag lev pump with microprocessor controlled pump with a WinXP siftware control panel to optimise the pump speed and up to 6 fans speed. it's the Waterchill Extreme 03-L-1249 Kit
i have tons of room in my case..... here's some before pix
<<<suspened rad with 4 120's and no vibration>>>
<<<and here's a little undeglow mobo trick i did>>>
So, i'm at that point now, waiting on some elbows for clearence reasons. but i'm trying to figure out the best liquid solution and Fogey is trying to figure out the best tubing.
so, i've been told a couple times already that 90% Distilled and 10% ZRSC is the best. but no one has ever given me info on the MCT-% replacement fluid. i've pretty much heard all kinds of fliuds that people make up, but i don't want to go into experimentation over fluids or tubing.
so i guess i'm going to to with the most recommended the ZRSC and distilled water.
How does Tygon tubing react with this fluid solution that i've settled on?
also, anyone know what type of pump the Koolance is? and how fluid mixtures react to them?
TGM