coloured coolant

[cisto1999]

Does coloured coolant still "damage" the cooling blocks in that sense that a rest of the coloured particles stay on the cooling blocks and in the reservoir?

[Jogostar]

I would go for colored tubing anyway. looks way better.

[kizoku_95]

They could gunk up after some time damaging or reducing the efficiency of the watercooling loop!

[ForsakenLive]

many of the times is the tubbing and not the coolant, that leaves particles around (erosion) and creates that gunk. If you want clear tubbing and colored coolant and having 0 issues with it, go for a high quality coolant dye, like the Mayhems dyes. and high quality rigid tubbing or flexible tubbing like the Primochill advanced. You may also want to change your coolant from time to time (1 per year should be enough).

[Altecice]

I suggest you stick to Mayhems coolant only for coloured. As said above its mostly the tubing that causes the issues. Primochill for example reacts with some coolant and turns the tubes green and starts creating gunk.

[CM Nic]

I suggest you stick to Mayhems coolant only for coloured. As said above its mostly the tubing that causes the issues. Primochill for example reacts with some coolant and turns the tubes green and starts creating gunk.

I've been running Mayhem coolant in a custom setup for almost a year now with no discoloration or odd particles. It's among the higher quality coolants that I've used. I've also run colored tubing and that has had mixed results over similar time periods. The color tends to fade or bleed. It's all a trade-off though. It will take more cleaning to get the colored coolant out of your various water blocks when you're done with that color or want to switch to a different coolant.

[R4STABAN]

Does coloured coolant still "damage" the cooling blocks in that sense that a rest of the coloured particles stay on the cooling blocks and in the reservoir?

 

Dye will stain blocks.

 

Plasticiser from tubing clogs blocks up and gets stained by dye.

 

My favourite tubing to use is primochill advanced LRT clear as I have yet to see much discolouration (beyond dye staining) and have not seen any plasticiser debris in my blocks.

[Altecice]

 

My favourite tubing to use is primochill advanced LRT clear as I have yet to see much discolouration (beyond dye staining) and have not seen any plasticiser debris in my blocks.

 

Interesting. Mayhems suggest you don't use Primochill with there pastel cooling as it turns the tubes green.

[R4STABAN]

Interesting. Mayhems suggest you don't use Primochill with there pastel cooling as it turns the tubes green.

 

They refer to primochil pro LRT tubing, which has an a thin layer of anti-microbial.. stuff on the inside. That's the stuff that reacts badly with pastel.

 

Advanced LRT doesn't have that coating as the inner wall is structurally smoother and doesn't need it.

 

(I had pastel inside pro lrt tubing and good lawd they aren't exaggerating. My purple pastel was still purple but the tubing went nuclear green.)

[cisto1999]

Thanks for the answers!