Water Coolant

I need help choosing the right and budget friendly coolant for my loop. I have all parts ready to build a loop. I can build with both soft and hard line tubing. My loop is entirely with copper and brass components. The only stone in my path is coolant. As per config estimated volume of water...

So I was doing a leak test on my custom liquid cool setup. I covered the components beforehand, but a fitting was leaking and it was able to get touch the motherboard. It was a small drop on the bottom right corner. Haven't turned it on yet, but will this affect the motherboard?

Hello everyone, I am currently looking into building my first gaming PC on a budget and as far as graphics cards go I was looking at the GeForce GTX 960 and the Radeon R9 280x. They both cost around $200 and offer similar performance with maybe a slight edge to the R9 280x. I plan to buy an i3...