Water type to use

[Purplehazeffc]

I'll be doing a full scale water loop for my next build. Progressing from AIO type unit.

 

From what I have read that distilled water is the water of choice.

 

But as I work in maintenance in a Hospital & have access to Ultra pure water that has gone

through a plant that filters water to be used for Renal Dialysis.

 

1. Which takes all the particulates out at 0.005 micron.

2. Water softener which takes out calcium , magnesium, and certain other metals.

3. Dual stage carbon filters which removes 99% of the chlorine.

4. Through a UV filter that kills all the bacteria left in the water. 

 

Then you are left with Ultra Pure Water.

 

I was thinking of using this water for my loop.

I would still be using a silver killcoil, even though the UV filter would get rid of the bacteria.

 

Any thought on this would be appreciated & welcomed

 

Cheers

 

Pic of the water plant

[ZetZet]

is it nonconductive after all those things? because deionized and distilled are both pretty much nonconductive.

[Purplehazeffc]

Yeah.

Thats what the Water softener system does. Takes out all of the metals out.
Its properlyabout 50% better in that than Deionized water

[Sandvich]

Well lets say that water is to spill it won't short out the parts but it will soon pickup minerals in the motherboard and be conductive if you are to "water" cool use mineral oil.

[TBNRunity]

Well lets say that water is to spill it won't short out the parts but it will soon pickup minerals in the motherboard and be conductive if you are to "water" cool use mineral oil.

mineral oil is not something to be used in loops... Mineral oil is not nearly as good as distilled water. I believe water transfers heat almost twice as good as mineral oil.

[Sandvich]

Really? I thought all custom water loops used mineral oil.

[ADM-Ntek]

found this in the Water Cooling 101 - A good place for newbies to start thread

 

Thermal Conductivity of Common Cooling Mediums (@~20°C; W/mK)
Higher values are better

Water...............................................0.610
Mineral Oil........................................0.162
Alcohol(Ethyl, Isopropyl, Buytl)...........0.161-0.200
Ethylene Glycol..................................0.258
Air...................................................0.0257


Specific Heat of Common Cooling Mediums (@~20°C;kJ/kg.K)
Higher values are better

Water...............................................4.19
Air...................................................1.00
Mineral Oil........................................1.67
Copper.............................................0.093
Ethylene glycol..................................2.36
Copper.............................................0.093
Ethylene glycol..................................2.36

[Bosco]

Really? I thought all custom water loops used mineral oil.

 

Then they would be oil loops wouldn't they?

[kachel94]

I'll be doing a full scale water loop for my next build. Progressing from AIO type unit.

 

From what I have read that distilled water is the water of choice.

 

But as I work in maintenance in a Hospital & have access to Ultra pure water that has gone

through a plant that filters water to be used for Renal Dialysis.

 

1. Which takes all the particulates out at 0.005 micron.

2. Water softener which takes out calcium , magnesium, and certain other metals.

3. Dual stage carbon filters which removes 99% of the chlorine.

4. Through a UV filter that kills all the bacteria left in the water. 

 

Then you are left with Ultra Pure Water.

 

I was thinking of using this water for my loop.

I would still be using a silver killcoil, even though the UV filter would get rid of the bacteria.

 

Any thought on this would be appreciated & welcomed

 

Cheers

 

Pic of the water plant

 

As long as you flush and wash your water blocks, rads and res i think if you can get a few litres of that stuff it would be amazing. ++ Try to wash the components out with the distilled water if possible.

Of course using the appropriate things in the loop like a kill coil, as even with the UV filter i think bacteria will grow back at a certain rate if it is exposed to the air, same thing happens with the minerals.

 

Well lets say that water is to spill it won't short out the parts but it will soon pickup minerals in the motherboard and be conductive if you are to "water" cool use mineral oil.

No generally in AIO and a lot of water loops are a mixture of glycol and other additives to the water to reduce algae and mineral build up.

Edited January 12, 2015 by kachel94

[Mujteba]

Pure water is highly polar though, so even if it does not contain any metal ions it will pick them up on the way and hence become conductive.

[ErickS89]

If you're using pure water use a silver coil or better yet 99.9% pure silver, of course coolant isn't cheap... 

don't use dye either, stay away from red(stains everything)

[Spev]

Really? I thought all custom water loops used mineral oil.

You made my day, sir.

[n0mahd]

Oh man. That's cool. I work on a trach-dialysis patient floor. Did NOT know that the water used was treated like that. Honestly, it'll be pretty cool to know how well the water holds up but unless there's sunlight or light in your PC it should be hard for algae growth. I game in the dark anyways. Bacteria growth.. I'll worry more about plasticizer or corrosion first.

[Purplehazeffc]

Cheers for the info guys.

I don't need to worry about getting a cpl of litres.

I can get pretty much as much as I like

[spwath]

Cheers for the info guys.

I don't need to worry about getting a cpl of litres.

I can get pretty much as much as I like

[spwath]

Pure water is highly polar though, so even if it does not contain any metal ions it will pick them up on the way and hence become conductive.

I don't think that matters. Any liquid will be come conducive. Water might be more due to hydrogen-bonding, but as long as the water stays in the loop, the conductivity does not matter