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So I ordered all the parts of my loop and i'm wondering about how much coolant I need. I have a 360mm rad and a 240mm rad as well as a dual bay res, Swiftech apogee xl, and 2 295x2 blocks. How much should I get?

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ok distilled water or something else?

Up to you really. If you're going with clear tubing, you might want to go with a coloured coolant as clear coolant can become discoloured over time. 

 

Have a look through Mayhems' coolants and find one you like. 

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ok distilled water or something else?

Use distilled water
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Coloured coolant can be a bitch when cleaning your loop. Used distilled water with a kilz coil and coloured tubing imo

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Up to you really. If you're going with clear tubing, you might want to go with a coloured coolant as clear coolant can become discoloured over time. 

 

Have a look through Mayhems' coolants and find one you like. 

I got a pastel colour additive form mayhem

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I got a pastel colour additive form mayhem

If you have a colour additive, you can either go with distilled water or a clear coolant. Personally, I would go with a clear coolant as they (I think) have chemicals to prevent algae and other build up, as well as not needing a silver kill coil (not needed really, but advised with water) 

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If you have a colour additive, you can either go with distilled water or a clear coolant. Personally, I would go with a clear coolant as they (I think) have chemicals to prevent algae and other build up, as well as not needing a silver kill coil (not needed really, but advised with water) 

The tubing I got (Primoflex) comes with an anti microbial

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I use mayhems pastel with clear primochill tubing and have yet to have any problems

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So I ordered all the parts of my loop and i'm wondering about how much coolant I need. I have a 360mm rad and a 240mm rad as well as a dual bay res, Swiftech apogee xl, and 2 295x2 blocks. How much should I get?

 

As others have said distilled water and a kill coil is general best practice but nothing wrong with coolant with dye in it just can lead to more maintenance in some applications. Also a positive is that dye can show very small slow leaks easier as it will stain the paper towel even if it dries. Also a 1 litre should be enough. I have a similar setup to you and 1 litre of EKWB's coolant was enough after bleeding and topping up.  

 

EDIT: actually you may need more depending on the capacity of your dual bay res. I am only using a tube res which may be smaller. 

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So I ordered all the parts of my loop and i'm wondering about how much coolant I need. I have a 360mm rad and a 240mm rad as well as a dual bay res, Swiftech apogee xl, and 2 295x2 blocks. How much should I get?

I would go with distilled water

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To be honest, it doesn't really matter what coolant you get as long as you get good quality tubing as you did. There have been colored coolants left in systems for 5 years that have been fine and it is usually the plasticizers from tubing that causes issues from what I understand. I used just under 2L for my system. Specs in sig. I spilt a little but if you're buying $3000 of GPU's how much is an extra liter really going to matter?

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just get coloured tubing it doesn't have to cloudy effect that mayhem fluids do though but i am lazy so i like my computer to be easy to clean and cleaning out radiators with a shitty fluid in them thats blocking the flow of water isnt worth it i would rather play my games then spend my time cleaning out my custom loop

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