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Help me decide my watercooling setup.

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Originally posted by: nealh
Originally posted by: HardWarrior
Conventional wisdom says that Zerex alone may not work as advertised. Made for water-cooling additives have the distinction of being designed for the task at hand.
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Hmm..The hardcore water coolers over at xtremesystems seem to think Zerex is a good choice.....what wisdom says this is not a good idea

BTW many advocate no additive and just the use of distilled water
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The hardcore types also swore by Water-Wetter, until the downsides of using it couldn't be ignored any longer. The fashionable mixture now is something like Zerex with iodine.
The average temp of a water-cooling loop is almost perfect for fungal growth. That's why distilled only isn't advisable. For the record, I don't care what other people use. I will, however, offer my opinion when I choose to.

Main Entry: conventional wisdom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the ideas, opinions, or understanding that are considered to be generally accepted by the public



 
I dont know why you have put that definition there. I think that it is a perfectly fine definition of conventional wisdom, but its still pointless. as I pointed out earlier, conventional wisdom says you DONT start running water in your case.

anyways, while I dont necessarily agree with you HardWarrior, I think its good to have someone playing devils advocate. It can only help the OP.
 
Originally posted by: Kakumba
I dont know why you have put that definition there. I think that it is a perfectly fine definition of conventional wisdom, but its still pointless. as I pointed out earlier, conventional wisdom says you DONT start running water in your case.

anyways, while I dont necessarily agree with you HardWarrior, I think its good to have someone playing devils advocate. It can only help the OP.
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What does any of this have to do with the topic? Also, I don't recall giving any indication that I require\seek your agreement. For that matter I don't remember even addressing you in any way.

 
Merely pointing out that by having someone offering different opinions, it helps the person whom I HOPE you are trying to help to decide. however, if you wish the be an asshole about it, so be it. Im just here to help.

now that we have getten this thread sufficiently off topic: perhaps we could consider bringing it back ON topic. I reckon that the parts the OP has chosen will serve him well, and would like to see the temps onec its all up and running. well, more importantly the deltas.
 
Originally posted by: Kakumba
asshole
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So, now you're going to visit my motives? I was slugging it out here trying to help people with water-cooling questions a lot longer than you've been around. How long have you been water-cooling, BTW? How many additives have YOU tried? You're just here to help huh? By regurgitating sh1t you've heard? Right. And then you toss in a bit of name-calling to show how uncomfortable you are with being disagreed with.

At any rate, I look forward to making you look like the lame-brained, no-nothing you are.


 
I agree water in a computer seems intuitively stupid...

I am building a WCing setup and will use only distilled water and Zerex(5%)
 
Originally posted by: nealh
I agree water in a computer seems intuitively stupid...

I am building a WCing setup and will use only distilled water and Zerex(5%)
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Not at all. Liguid-cooling isn't just a natural way to move thermal energy, mini\mainframe\super computers have been using it for 40-years+. I've had one leak in 6-years\five loops, and it was my fault for being careless with a new style of tubing.

Use what you want, just do so with your eyes open. Have you tried to find out what Zerex is, what its design properties are, do these properties augment the process of PC water-cooling or are they car-centric only, what its indications (downsides) are, etc.?
 
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