Custom Loop Fulid

[Th3Brofessiona1]

i am soon going to be doing a full custom loop, but i have no idea on what fluid to get so any help would be great and i would like the fulid to be blue or somw die i can use with the fulid to make it blue.

[Semper]

My recommendation: Buy blue tubing, and use distilled water. Your pump will thank you for it.

[Zinqs]

^ Agreed. Just get distill water and blue tubing, I recommend primoflex. You can also get a silver coil. Put it in your pump. It just makes the water cleaner.

[Th3Brofessiona1]

My recommendation: Buy blue tubing, and use distilled water. Your pump will thank you for it.

 

 

^ Agreed. Just get distill water and blue tubing, I recommend primoflex. You can also get a silver coil. Put it in your pump. It just makes the water cleaner.

i getting colored fluid that bad?

[Th3Brofessiona1]

this is the fluid i was thinking of getting

 

http://www.performance-pcs.com/primochill-pure-performance-coolant-32-oz-steel-blue.html

[Zinqs]

The downfall with colored tubing is that it can gunk up your loop and isn't as "pure" as distill water.

[Semper]

i getting colored fluid that bad?

Fluid dyes tend to gunk up after a while, causing your pump to work harder, and less efficiently, leading to a premature death, and higher temperatures which can cause other components to fail (obviously, if there's no cooling, there's not enough heat dissipation, and voila, you have a *insert part(s) connected to loop here* overheating).

That gunk also builds up inside the water blocks and on the inner wall of the tubing, so if/when you change the fluid/change to a different color, it nearly infinitely ends up being discolored, no matter how well you wash it.

 

Dyes also stain the inside of reservoir's, so like the tubing, it is permanently discolored.

[Th3Brofessiona1]

Fluid dyes tend to gunk up after a while, causing your pump to work harder, and less efficiently, leading to a premature death, and higher temperatures which can cause other components to fail (obviously, if there's no cooling, there's not enough heat dissipation, and voila, you have a *insert part(s) connected to loop here* overheating).

That gunk also builds up inside the water blocks and on the inner wall of the tubing, so if/when you change the fluid/change to a different color, it nearly infinitely ends up being discolored, no matter how well you wash it.

 

Dyes also stain the inside of reservoir's, so like the tubing, it is permanently discolored.

i wont want to change the color, so if i did get colored fluid how often should i drain the system and change it, or does it just gunk it up forever

[Semper]

i wont want to change the color, so if i did get colored fluid how often should i drain the system and change it, or does it just gunk it up forever

It's going to build up over time, no matter how often you change the fluid.

 

I don't know of an effective way to remove the gunk.

[Antykain]

Distilled water FTW for custom loops.. 

 

I am using Alphacool Ultra Pure water in my loop, with IandH Dead-Water biocide (to keep algae at bay).  Very low maintenance.  I usually clean all the blocks and rads at least once every 6 months or so, and each time I do, there is no "gunk" buildup anywhere to be found.  I have heard, and seen, some horror stories from people using additives to the w/c loop.  No thanks IMO.  While some of the colored coolants that are used in loops can look amazing , and many of them do, I just prefer to stick with good ol' distilled/pure water.  Much less fuss, easy maintenance.  

[Maxwit44]

this is the fluid i was thinking of getting

http://www.performance-pcs.com/primochill-pure-performance-coolant-32-oz-steel-blue.html

That coolant will be fine to use. I've run colored coolant for a couple of years now, and I have NEVER had any issue when using coolant like you've listed.

[LeChef]

Let me fix that for ya.

The downfall with colored coolant is that it can gunk up your loop and isn't as "pure" as distilled water.