When do replace liquid in water cooling desktop PC

[cheeksforweeks]

How often should I be replacing liquid in my PC? What is the best liquid to put in when refiling? Can someone please send me a link as to how to change the liquid as wellf?

I can send my PC specs, just need some help please! My first time doing this.

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, cheeksforweeks said:

How often should I be replacing liquid in my PC? What is the best liquid to put in when refiling? Can someone please send me a link as to how to change the liquid as wellf?

I can send my PC specs, just need some help please! My first time doing this.

Just to confirm, you have a custom water cooled computer? if you have an AIO, you do not need to change the fluid ever. 

If you do have a custom water cooled computer (my guess is you bought it from Origin or Maingear if you did), you should replace it every 6 to 8 months with either distilled water and some additives. Whoever you bought the computer from should give you instructions on how to fill and drain the system.

[xdeathshot20]

13 minutes ago, cheeksforweeks said:

How often should I be replacing liquid in my PC? What is the best liquid to put in when refiling? Can someone please send me a link as to how to change the liquid as wellf?

I can send my PC specs, just need some help please! My first time doing this.

i do mine personally every 6 months.  I drain it, run distilled water thru it to get rid of anything and then put in fresh coolant.  I do a deep clean every year and a half to 2 years.

[cheeksforweeks]

It is an iBuypower machine. Asus tuf gaming s motherboard, i7 8700k, Invidia 1660 gpu, 16gb of A-DATA ram. I sent an email awhile back and still waiting on a response. That is why I made the post.  

[LogicalDrm]

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[bowrilla]

On 12/26/2020 at 12:33 PM, cheeksforweeks said:

It is an iBuypower machine. Asus tuf gaming s motherboard, i7 8700k, Invidia 1660 gpu, 16gb of A-DATA ram. I sent an email awhile back and still waiting on a response. That is why I made the post.  

That does not answer the initial question whether it is a custom open loop or a closed loop AiO. If you don't know: make a picture of it.

 

The common service interval of custom open loop water cooling is 6-12 month (also depends on the fluid already in use, opaque and/or coloured fluids need more service than clear fluids).  Clear premix is always the safest bet, clear concentrate or anti algea + anti corrosion additives together with distilled water (real distilled water, not demineralized water) is also very safe, as soon as you add colours you will over time risk discolourization of your tubing and opaque fluids WILL over time start to gunk up your blocks requiring to open up your blocks in order to properly clean them (opaque fluids have basically particles in there that make them opaque).

 

Closed loop AiOs are usually not intended to be refilled and most of them don't even have a port to fill the up. However, they will loose some fluid over time to the air (through the tubing) and at some point they will loose effectiveness to the point of needing a full replacement (or the technical skills to refill them - the fluids in use are usually not disclosed)