Water Cooling Help!

[Spike199421]

Hi guys, an old friend gave me a pretty lovely alunimum Thermaltake case, with it's original 360 radiator, and all of the stuff needed to cool an Athlon 2 (Yes, its old), however, upon closer inspection, everything is completly clogged with algae and other dirt stuff, as a newbie, how do I go about cleaning this all, completly, I have read about bleach, but it will apparantly turn the rubber hoses yellow. Thank you in advance. 

[samcool55]

I would replace the tubing completely.

It's old, dirty and new tubing isn't exactly expensive

 

Apart from that i would try to clean the rad first, that should give you a sign how the overall status of the loop is.

 

But then again i'm not an expert either

[W-L]

44 minutes ago, Spike199421 said:

Hi guys, an old friend gave me a pretty lovely alunimum Thermaltake case, with it's original 360 radiator, and all of the stuff needed to cool an Athlon 2 (Yes, its old), however, upon closer inspection, everything is completly clogged with algae and other dirt stuff, as a newbie, how do I go about cleaning this all, completly, I have read about bleach, but it will apparantly turn the rubber hoses yellow. Thank you in advance. 

As mentioned you will want to toss all of that tubing and take apart all the blocks for cleaning. For stuff like copper using a saturated solution of salt and vingear work really well. for other things using a diluted vingear solution would be best. 

[Spike199421]

37 minutes ago, W-L said:

As mentioned you will want to toss all of that tubing and take apart all the blocks for cleaning. For stuff like copper using a saturated solution of salt and vingear work really well. for other things using a diluted vingear solution would be best. 

Okay dokay, so it sounds like its not worth dealing with really

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, Spike199421 said:

Okay dokay, so it sounds like its not worth dealing with really

The thing that is probably worth the most value would be the pump even though it looks like a bit of an off brand, the block and possibly the fittings but it does look like a DIY loop like they were done back in the day before they had dedicated watercooling components. If you were interested in DIYing a ghetto type loop it could work.