should i clean my rads before use?

[Evostatic343]

if so, what should i use and should i clean cpu block aswell?

[helping]

Yes. Always 

 

Mixture of 9 parts boiling water 1 part vinegar and let it sit for a few minutes. You can use tap water for this.

 

Rinse with tap and final rinse with distilled or coolant of choice to finish. 

 

Disassemble the block and clean with a soft tooth brush with soap, vinegar, or ketchup, follow the same procedure as above. If the block is new, a simple rinse will do. 

[nsyedhasan]

You have to rinse your loop anyways. If there is dust on the fins use a can of compressed air to clean it out.

[Tmh85]

I heard your supposed to run hot water through them to get all of the possible residue out

[legopc]

i would definetly recomend it... 

[Andrew0472]

singularity computers may have a video about it. I have watched builds of his where he talks about cleaning out the loop

[phoenixto]

i put a compression fitting (barb same thing) on the rad and a piece of tubing, than i have an adapter for the kitchen tap hook it up and let water blast full force u can also easily go from hot and cold

[Foxxer]

Yes. Always 

 

Mixture of 9 parts boiling water 1 part vinegar and let it sit for a few minutes. You can use tap water for this.

 

Rinse with tap and final rinse with distilled or coolant of choice to finish. 

 

Disassemble the block and clean with a soft tooth brush with soap, vinegar, or ketchup, follow the same procedure as above. If the block is new, a simple rinse will do. 

 

+1 ! New rads do have metal shavings and debris left over inside.

[VSG]

i put a compression fitting (barb same thing) on the rad and a piece of tubing, than i have an adapter for the kitchen tap hook it up and let water blast full force u can also easily go from hot and cold

 

This is a VERY bad idea, please don't do this. The components in your loop are not meant to withstand such high water pressure/flow rates.

[Foxxer]

This is a VERY bad idea, please don't do this. The components in your loop are not meant to withstand such high water pressure/flow rates.

Rads nowadays can withstand 25psi IIRC... I don't think tap water can burst the pipes? Unless otherwise using a industrial pump.

[Prophet of Entropy]

in my country house hold water pressure is up to about 100psi, but it varies. normally 20-50psi

 

but yes clean your rad,  I filled my sink  with hot soapy water and circulated it through my rads until it cooled off, like 2 hours, I used a syphon pump to prime my circ pump.  didn't care about filings so much since I planed and do use a inline filter before my pump.