water cooling question

thebull

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ok so i am finally nearing the end of buying the parts for my computer build, and i have a water cooling kit, and i was reading about the coolant online and they talk about losing their UV reactive-ness after 4 ish months. does this hold true for most/all UV coolants? just curious...that's not the important question

another question is the sludge. is there something i can add to prevent this? or reduce the time in which it happens? distilled water? or i read something about car anti freeze with the coolant to keep micro-organisms from growing. but how much do you put in?

this is the coolant i have with the kit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835106060

looks like it has not so good ratings, and i kinda rather have blue so i think i'm gonna get some of this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fluid-XP-High-Performa...Q2em118Q2el1247

i've heard good things about that type...but what about sludge? or is that pretty much going to happen with any cooling kit?
 
I have owned water cooling components for about 3 years with great success. I use feaser one fluid, but used fluid xp during my last loop and was throughly impressed. Another advantage in using fluid xp or feaser one is that they are non conductive. I never experience any sludge ever in my rigs. Hope this helps
 
that does help actually. every other review was talkin about sludge and build up and this and that. but they didnt have fluid xp on newegg, so i only saw in one review that he bought the good stuff. ima look into feaser too. thanks for the reply :)
 
lol theres no such thing as sludge in water cooling. you wont get a build up of gunky stuff like that. the best fluid to use to distilled water because it conducts the least amount of electricity in case of a leak and has a good heat capacity. however, you should and a few drops of additive that kills algae to prevent any algae buildup that results from light. but try to minimize adding extra stuff to the distilled water because it will increase conductivity. if you really want your water to have color, then go ahead and and a few drops of UV color but it will just take away a tiny bit of the effectiveness of the water cooling
 
lol no sludge? i dno wtf i was readin then. ima get that xp+ UV blue, and add distilled water. it has blue UV dye in it, that wont affect it will it? in the same ratio as royalmarines i guess
 
I guess I just like it simple, but I used just plain old distilled water. It's non-conductive, very cheap, and easily refillable.
 
plain distilled water will be fine? i was thinkin you had to add somethin to it. hell yeah i have a gallon of distilled water sittin here. i can use that then. thanks :)
 
plain distilled water will be fine? i was thinkin you had to add somethin to it. hell yeah i have a gallon of distilled water sittin here. i can use that then. thanks :)
Nope, although I would recommend flushing out the entire system before hand just to make sure theres not an excessive amount of bacteria and dirt, you don't want algae to form, or dirt to contaminate the distilled water.
 
Plain distilled water should be fine. But its good to mix about 15-20% anit-freeze and a few drops of povidone iodine to keep it clean and corrosive free.
 
kind of a late response, but thanks guys :) i'll post the build when i start it, which should be here in a couple weeks. just need my OS, new HD, lightscribe burner, and case. and a 16 gig flash drive to switch some things over to the new PC
 
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