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What would you say is the best coolant and tubing to use.

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Regular DI/Distilled water with a coil. Where are you located? In the US i'd say Duralene, UK probably MasterKleer.

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Regular DI/Distilled water with a coil. Where are you located? In the US i'd say Duralene, UK probably MasterKleer.
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Premixed coolants have the least issues, and will stay OK for a long time.

Mayhems concentrates are also good, but you do need to use it with proper distilled water.

As tubing, i really love tygon tubes. the clearness (or how you might call it) is great and it won't kink as mutch as other tubes. although it is quite expensive, tubing is one of the least expensive parts of your WC set. use tubing diameters of 3/8" OD and higher and higher than 1/2" OD.

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Premixed coolants have the least issues, and will stay OK for a long time.

Mayhems concentrates are also good, but you do need to use it with proper distilled water.

As tubing, i really love tygon tubes. the clearness (or how you might call it) is great and it won't kink as mutch as other tubes. although it is quite expensive, tubing is one of the least expensive parts of your WC set. use tubing diameters of 3/8" OD and higher and higher than 1/2" OD.

Mayhems has stated multiple times not to use Tygon, just something to note :)
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I'm having great success with Mayhems Pastel and Feser clear. :) no plasticizer here so far after a couple months

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Tubing seems to be a minefield atm. I'm in the UK too and here's what i've tried:

-primochill + mayhems pastel = epic plasteciser leaching. Tubing went nuclear green (pastel was purple..) and was filled with plastic sediment that clogged up my cpu block.

-masterkleer + mayhems x1 = dullened, clouded and developed a slight yellow tint.

-clearflex60 + mayhems pastel black = the pastel black has not worked well with this tubing tbh, it has a bluish tinge to it through the tubing wall but looks jet black in my bitspower crystal link between gpus.

I'm considering my options now:

ditch the clear tubing and go for black.

or (much more expensive and have to measure angles properly) use the crystal link extension adapters and lots of crystal links.

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Tubing seems to be a minefield atm. I'm in the UK too and here's what i've tried: -primochill + mayhems pastel = epic plasteciser leaching. Tubing went nuclear green (pastel was purple..) and was filled with plastic sediment that clogged up my cpu block

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hmmmmm. I wonder why that combo didn't work. :O

(Highlighted wrong tubing as orginal pic was for something else)

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I am running EK coolant mix and XSPC tubing - so far so good...

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Premixed coolants have the least issues, and will stay OK for a long time.

Mayhems concentrates are also good, but you do need to use it with proper distilled water.

As tubing, i really love tygon tubes. the clearness (or how you might call it) is great and it won't kink as mutch as other tubes. although it is quite expensive, tubing is one of the least expensive parts of your WC set. use tubing diameters of 3/8" OD and higher and higher than 1/2" OD.

Mayhem also sells premixed coolants.

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Premixed coolants have the least issues, and will stay OK for a long time.

Mayhems concentrates are also good, but you do need to use it with proper distilled water.

As tubing, i really love tygon tubes. the clearness (or how you might call it) is great and it won't kink as mutch as other tubes. although it is quite expensive, tubing is one of the least expensive parts of your WC set. use tubing diameters of 3/8" OD and higher and higher than 1/2" OD.

yes i know? i was talking specificly about the mayhems concentrates.

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I am running EK coolant mix and XSPC tubing - so far so good...
EK coolant mix is not mayhems pastel.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff."

 

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I am running EK coolant mix and XSPC tubing - so far so good...
Yes, I know that...

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I am running EK coolant mix and XSPC tubing - so far so good...
What a strange point to make.

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