Replacing fluid

[GER_T4IGA]

Hi there,

 

I just finished my faster watercooled build and filled it with destilled water.

Before you type an angry comment: This is for thorough cleaning purposes.

I have a bottle of EK Cryofuel Blood Red ready to be used.

All my waterblocks and pump+res are preused.

Everything was disassembled and cleaned except the pump. The arcylic res of the combo was unscrewed and wiped down (https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-xres-140-d5-vario-incl-pump).

Now I am running everything on destilled water for leak testing and further cleaning just to be safe.

 

I notice it was extremely hard to get all the trapped air out of my 2 rads and blocks.

I want to change to the Cryofuel bottle after I have run it a while to test for leaks and the destilled water has soaked up most remaining impurities.

On the bottle of the liquid it says that diluting or mixing is an absolut 'no, no' and therfore I am a bit worried.

On one hand I think that destilled water should be fine as the cryofuel should be about 95+% destilled water. On the other hand EK knows their products best

 

Do you have tips for removing most water out of my radiator later?

I have a drain port at the lowest point of the loop but that will surely not be enough to get everything out.

Would dilusioin really be so terrible? Previous experience with cryofuel?

[Lurick]

If you're talking about a bit of water, say a few mL or something, it won't hurt anything but if you had say, half a loop full of water, then it would probably detract from the effects of the fluid and make it look pretty blah.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure they sell it on a concentrate form as well which you just mix with water anyway so you should if there is some water you can't get out.

[Sack]

Distilled water is the best fluid anyway, the best way to colour your fluid is to use a dye or coloured tubing, unless you're doing some serious hard overclocking buying a special fluid is a waste of money. Water and dye will give you the same results.

[GER_T4IGA]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

If you're talking about a bit of water, say a few mL or something, it won't hurt anything but if you had say, half a loop full of water, then it would probably detract from the effects of the fluid and make it look pretty blah.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure they sell it on a concentrate form as well which you just mix with water anyway so you should if there is some water you can't get out.

I doubt I would notice a low level of dillusion in color saturation with the amount I will be facing. Half a loop is definitely a bit of an exageration.

I haven't yet thought about the lather but it is a brilliant idea. Thanks for the heads up!

[Lurick]

3 minutes ago, Sack said:

Distilled water is the best fluid anyway, the best way to colour your fluid is to use a dye or coloured tubing, unless you're doing some serious hard overclocking buying a special fluid is a waste of money. Water and dye will give you the same results.

Water + Dye if you want algae growth and other issues, sure.

Or you can just go with a nice colored premix that has all the biocides and corrosion inhibitors included.

[Lurick]

2 minutes ago, GER_T4IGA said:

I doubt I would notice a low level of dillusion in color saturation with the amount I will be facing. Half a loop is definitely a bit of an exageration.

I haven't yet thought about the lather but it is a brilliant idea. Thanks for the heads up!

Yah, a bit of water won't hurt and you'll almost never notice anyway unless it's large quantities.

[GER_T4IGA]

1 minute ago, Sack said:

Distilled water is the best fluid anyway, the best way to colour your fluid is to use a dye or coloured tubing, unless you're doing some serious hard overclocking buying a special fluid is a waste of money. Water and dye will give you the same results.

I have seen multiple reports of people using destilled water without a biocide getting horrible gunk and other issues.

Unless you mean the multi purpose concentrates sold by e. g. EKWB I will stick to premixes as that spares me hassle.

 

On the topic of waste of money, I spent about a thousand bucks on a PC i don't need to learn to watercool because I was afraid of breaking my main rig and also downtime during building ... ufff. I am not going to save a couple of bucks on the fluid which can make or break this whole experience. I could have saved that money on radiators much more savely and easily if Ihad wanted to ;-) currently using EK SE 360+240

[GER_T4IGA]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Yah, a bit of water won't hurt and you'll almost never notice anyway unless it's large quantities.

Do you have any tips other than turn the quack out of my rig to slowly lead all the water to the drain port?

[Lurick]

Just now, GER_T4IGA said:

Do you have any tips other than turn the quack out of my rig to slowly lead all the water to the drain port?

Depending on how it's setup and where your fill port is, you could always cut some extra tubing and put it on a barb, connect it to the fill port and give a few puffs of air into the system. Of course that's if you have extra stuff to do that but it can help move some of the water around. Don't go full blast like you're trying to empty your lungs of air or anything, just a few breaths can help.

[Sack]

9 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Water + Dye if you want algae growth and other issues, sure.

Or you can just go with a nice colored premix that has all the biocides and corrosion inhibitors included.

I was making an assumption a biocide agent would be present either way, I was just saying that if you want a premix because of colours (which I get, need that loop to look good) using a dye (a proper one) with distilled water is usually much cheaper, but you always need a biocide.

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, Sack said:

I was making an assumption a biocide agent would be present either way, I was just saying that if you want a premix because of colours (which I get, need that loop to look good) using a dye (a proper one) with distilled water is usually much cheaper, but you always need a biocide.

That makes sense then

[Sack]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

That makes sense then

I mean, just look at "whole room water-cooling" that LTT did, that stuff was nasty afterwards.

[GER_T4IGA]

14 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Depending on how it's setup and where your fill port is, you could always cut some extra tubing and put it on a barb, connect it to the fill port and give a few puffs of air into the system. Of course that's if you have extra stuff to do that but it can help move some of the water around. Don't go full blast like you're trying to empty your lungs of air or anything, just a few breaths can help.

Thanks. Will keep that in mind.

I just checked out your build in your sig. Looks great, I like it.