Best coolant to use? And maintenance procedures?

[asim1999]

You may have heard about the charity builds i was planning. I am not holding my breath of having any high or final hopes, but IF companies agree to help I might go watercooling as these machines will be used for sustained folding

Now I ant to decide on coolant. Which coolant will provide the least amount of maintenance and be the least hassle free?

Also how often do you drain your loop? And if so, do you take the whole thing apart and replace blocks or just replace fluid?

[vanished]

and be the least hassle free?

Little typo there I think

[Fgtfv567]

Best coolant to use is distilled water (not drinking or mineral water). It's cheap, ubiquitous, and won't stain anything.

You should drain the loop and replace the water every 6-12 months. Maybe clean out the the loop every 2-ish years.

Draining the loop just replace the fluid. You don't need to replace blocks, rads, or tubing. That's just pointless

 

As how to drain a custom-water cooling loop, I don't know how to do that, someone tell me please

Remember to use a silver kill coil (or some sort of biocide), an anti-corrosive if you have different types of metal in the loop, and maybe a drop of dish soap to help get bubbles out.

[W-L]

You may have heard about the charity builds i was planning. I am not holding my breath of having any high or final hopes, but IF companies agree to help I might go watercooling as these machines will be used for sustained folding

Now I ant to decide on coolant. Which coolant will provide the least amount of maintenance and be the least hassle free?

Also how often do you drain your loop? And if so, do you take the whole thing apart and replace blocks or just replace fluid?

 

Usually clear premixed fluids or distilled water with the apporiate biocide gives the longest life span, fluid changes though should be performed at most in 12 month intervals.

[Philcat101]

You may have heard about the charity builds i was planning. I am not holding my breath of having any high or final hopes, but IF companies agree to help I might go watercooling as these machines will be used for sustained folding

Now I ant to decide on coolant. Which coolant will provide the least amount of maintenance and be the least hassle free?

Also how often do you drain your loop? And if so, do you take the whole thing apart and replace blocks or just replace fluid?

1. Use distilled water

2. Include a drain at the reservoir. Fill again from top of reservoir.

[Josephdalepi]

You may have heard about the charity builds i was planning. I am not holding my breath of having any high or final hopes, but IF companies agree to help I might go watercooling as these machines will be used for sustained folding

Now I ant to decide on coolant. Which coolant will provide the least amount of maintenance and be the least hassle free?

Also how often do you drain your loop? And if so, do you take the whole thing apart and replace blocks or just replace fluid?

these days, suggestion is to use a silver kill coil and pure water

[sandboarder08]

Any colorless coolant is fine.  

No need to drain or flush coolant  for years and years.  

This is all you need. 

Contains scale and biological inhibitors as well

http://mayhems.co.uk/coolants/other/xt-1-coolant/xt-1cc/

[Altecice]

Any Mayhems coolant.

[EdInk]

Any Mayhems coolant.

Loool...you asking for it, aren't you?

[Altecice]

Loool...you asking for it, aren't you?

 

No. I have built many systems for myself and others and have always used Mayhems, never had a single issue.... the only times you get issues is when using incompatible tubing in your loop and the Pastel coolant... AHEM jays2cents.  

 

Im currently using Pastel red and its been perfect.

[EdInk]

No. I have built many systems for myself and others and have always used Mayhems, never had a single issue.... the only times you get issues is when using incompatible tubing in your loop and the Pastel coolant... AHEM jays2cents.  

 

Im currently using Pastel red and its been perfect.

Likewise, I'm using their Pastel white ATM and it's been around 11months, maintaining and reusing fluid twice and still no issues.

 

@OP, premixed liquid I'd say, less hassle dealing with water and biocide and ratios, kill coil...tbh... but as you say it's for charity I can only guess cutting costs will be a igh priority?

[EdInk]

You may have heard about the charity builds i was planning. I am not holding my breath of having any high or final hopes, but IF companies agree to help I might go watercooling as these machines will be used for sustained folding

Now I ant to decide on coolant. Which coolant will provide the least amount of maintenance and be the least hassle free?

Also how often do you drain your loop? And if so, do you take the whole thing apart and replace blocks or just replace fluid?

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[NannerBeans]

No. I have built many systems for myself and others and have always used Mayhems, never had a single issue.... the only times you get issues is when using incompatible tubing in your loop and the Pastel coolant... AHEM jays2cents.  

 

Im currently using Pastel red and its been perfect.

 

No he wasn't using incompatible tubing. He was using Primochill which is completely fine. Some of that stuff does have issues. Some people have them, some people don't. Certain colors seem to be doing worse than others. I'm running the blue pastel right now but once I need to change it, I'm probably done with pastel. Cleaning a loop after using pastel is too annoying. You get all that residue that you have to scrub off. It looks really good but not worth it in the end imo. It's too much work. 

[Altecice]

No he wasn't using incompatible tubing. He was using Primochill which is completely fine. Some of that stuff does have issues. Some people have them, some people don't. Certain colors seem to be doing worse than others. I'm running the blue pastel right now but once I need to change it, I'm probably done with pastel. Cleaning a loop after using pastel is too annoying. You get all that residue that you have to scrub off. It looks really good but not worth it in the end imo. It's too much work. 

 

I believe he said in his video he uses a small section of Tygon tubing in between the bottom rads (as rigid tubing would work). Tygon is on the "no no list" to use with Pastel.

[NannerBeans]

I believe he said in his video he uses a small section of Tygon tubing in between the bottom rads (as rigid tubing would work). Tygon is on the "no no list" to use with Pastel.

No it was primochill in the bottom. Tygon was only after he switched to the primochill fluid. 

[skline00]

Distilled water.