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So I am starting out to water cool my pc, i am purchasing an EK kit to start out. But the coolant I dont really like so i decided to look at some better coolants to look better. The question i have tho is if i should go with a premix coolant and if i have to add distilled water to it because when i looked i did not see anything saying i had to add water. By the way I am going with a solid cloud white coolant

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use vodka ?

 

also here you can see its  a back and forth between people 

 

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10 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

use vodka ?

 

also here you can see its  a back and forth between people 

 

thank you

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Premix is like it says it is premixed so no adding to it. But remember a few months to a year you will need to add more as the water will evaporate even through the plastic tube unless you use hard plastic then not so much. After 3-4months I added a few Oz to my res. Froze the premix lol (it was more like a slush cube) But was just seeing if it would lower temps did for like 5seconds and cube was melted in 10-15seconds.

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2 minutes ago, Livinloud said:

Premix is like it says it is premixed so no adding to it. But remember a few months to a year you will need to add more as the water will evaporate even through the plastic tube unless you use hard plastic then not so much. After 3-4months I added a few Oz to my res. Froze the premix lol (it was more like a slush cube) But was just seeing if it would lower temps did for like 5seconds and cube was melted in 10-15seconds.

Thank you for this info have a nice night.

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3 hours ago, lllJASONlll said:

with premixed do you have to use water as you do to concentrate or can you pour it right into your system, im kinda new to this.

Premix is just concentrate that already has the right amount of distilled water added. Just pour it straight into your res

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If you want to make it pretty i'd use premix, both solutions water will evaporate leaving a higher ratio of coolant-water and gunking stuff up.

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