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too late on running the cleaning cycle... already filled. I only like to rinse with distilled water cause its impossible to fully drain my loop without taking a bunch of stuff apart. And I'm really not feeling that right now. also looking at the color of the fluid there was a good amount of the mayhems left in there. or I take a page out of food prep and let it get really hot? haha thanks and sorry for being an askhole

I had Ice Dragon nano-fluid in my loop for about 5 years. being a solid white fluid it did stain all the stuff but nothing was clogged up and no build up in the fins or anything. although my EK cpu waterblock cleaned up nice when I took it apart and cleaned it. didn't have to do anything special, just wet paper towels if I remember right. and it did turn gray by the time I drained it. not liking the everything stained white everything I went the opposite and went to what I thought was solid black (link below). its actually a dark clear kinda black but in light really more brown. but maybe thats just me diluting it too much. I just drained it and its even better than the Ice Dragon, nothing stained, no build up or gunk anywhere... and its been in there for 4 years. I ordered more of the stuff and gonna see of a stronger concentration will give me a blacker fluid. https://www.performance-pcs.com/products/mayhems-x1-uv-black-concentrate-250ml both fluids temp under gaming load was in the mid 30's typically, regular usage stabilized right around 30 (fans don't click on till 32). both fluids I've accidently had up to high 50's. happened a lot more on the Ice Dragon cause I had my fans on a manual fan controller. Moved to the Aquaero 5 LT when I switched to the black fluid. It glitched out on me ones and for some reason the fans didn't turn on and thats when it got all hot. On the Ice Dragon fluid it happened a ton of times.. I didn't notice till whatever game I'm playing suddenly starts running super low fps, then oops, blast the fans. Maybe that helped with keeping anything from growing in the loop, haha and I've always had soft tubing. edit: I take it back. after being forced to replace a section of tubing, there's a little fading... but not bad for 4 years

I'm upgrading my graphics card and kinda spaced on buying fluid. Ordered some from Performance PCs last night but it won't be here till wednesday. is it ok to run distilled water only for about a week and then add the concentrate once its here? Link below is what I bought and its what was in there before. I don't really wanna just fill it back up with the same fluid but I'm also not doing a full flush either. just drained it and gonna fill with distilled water but leave space for the concentrate. based on how my loop is laid out I have a full 360x30mm rad worth of the coolant still in there, plus whats left in the nooks and crannies. so it won't be water only. is that good enough to keep me from growing a jungle in my loop in a week? https://www.performance-pcs.com/products/mayhems-x1-uv-black-concentrate-250ml

I know y'all are super invested in this so thought I'd give you an update. I didn't get ripped off, the card both works and is actually a 3080 Ti and ran fine with a dry waterblock... temp was only 33°C too

I’m hoping not to have to install anymore software to accomplish this, but if nothing else works out I’ll try this

Thank you! I’ll try this when I get home

I recently "upgraded" to Win11 for the whole no more support for Win10. I want to set it up so it just boots into desktop without the log in screen like all of my other computers but I don't have the "users must enter username and password to use this computer" checkbox (see screenshots). Is there another way to accomplish this? Is there a way to get that checkbox back? I did install Win11 after the latest "you can't install win11 without an online account" thing and I used a work around I found on youtube. Can't find it in my history anymore, I think youtube removed it. help?

awesome thanks! I'm gonna use a different computer entirely to test it, so no pump running dry issues

I'm planning on buying a used 3080 Ti tomorrow with a waterblock on it. Is it safe to run it without water just long enough to verify its a 3080 Ti and it actually works? Or am I risking damaging it? I really don't wanna take apart my waterloop and to put the new card in there just to find out it doesn't work...

got some bigger tires for the rice bucket civic. splurged for the heat cycling at Tire Rack cause Andy Hollis at Grassroots say these get thread separation if you don't heat cycle them. Got a great deal on them cause Tire Rack is clearing out the RT660's to make space for the RT660+ and the last pic is from my last track day, still on the 215's all around

now you're onto something! haha

the spark plugs really get to me, there's no reason a plug should cost 15 bucks at absolute most... coils I kinda get cause there's actually a difference in quality. but something like spark plugs are only different so they can justify ripping you off

dealerships aren't making any money on selling cars anymore (there were a few years of covid) so they moved to upselling the crap out of service and maintenance items. Its easy sell a bunch of unneeded overpriced services to people who don't understand how cars work. Selling cars is mostly a loss leader to get people into your service department. The thing that really gets under my skin is how expensive spark plugs are all of the sudden. There hasn't been any innovation with spark plugs, still pretty much the same as its been for over 100 years... just different materials. but hey, this one goes into a DI engine so lets make it a slightly different shape and charge 7x the price for it for no reason...

finally installed my Acuity shifter that I bought on Black Friday, coupled with the fresh centering and detent springs in the transmission, shifter is awesome. I know its a tired analogy, and I wouldn't quite say bolt action rifle, but more like a light duty bolt action hand gun. don't judge the Bride door panels and shift boot, it was on the car and I'm not going through the effort to change it... last year Tire Rack was clearing out old stock RE71RS tires and I picked up a set at half cost. Sizes were limited so I got stock size 215's again. Also picked up a set of Konig Ultragrams on black friday... these are 17x8. I also have a pair of 18x9.5 for when I feel my driving has developed enough for a bigger front tire. Prolly gonna be a 255, maybe a 245. Paired with a 225 or 215 rear. and off to the track I went. Not quite my first lap, but first full hot lap I set a new PB by 2.5 seconds. Love these tires! Ton more front grip and rotates better too. Still a good bit of low hanging fruit in my driving, biggest prolly being T1-T2 next session I was on track for a low to mid 1:56 and then I through it all away. Initially I thought I stepped on the brake too hard and it just went into ABS. after watching the vid and reflecting, I think I was too soft on the brakes initially, then panicked realizing I'm not slowing down quick enough and jammed on the brake harder... and thats when abs kicked in. good times... I'm not bitter at all...