Cleaning/Preparing water blocks

[Brj]

Am building my first water cooling project, and i read a lot of guides, also on this forum, a good stick by rubix_1011.

Just an idea Hope for the site Admins to create a "Water Cooling" Category, so we can post our questions under it, am posting under "Overclocking" right now since my last question on water cooling was moved to "Overclocking" .

My question: for the new GPU and CPU blocks do i need to disassemble, clean and then re assemble the blocks since i do not know how to do it, or just push water/rinse through them?

 

[4Ryan6]

And it seems that Koolance, IMAGEblck, Alphacool, Aquacomputer, Black Ice, Coolgate and just about every other manufacturer on FrozenCPU sell aluminum radiators. Not all models to be sure, some are copper/brass mixtures. I seem to recall that even brass/copper has some mixed metal interaction as well. Not sure how drastic that is known to be but to me it would seem worth consideration. I know brass and copper react in residential plumbing to some degree. Any reason why manufacturers would run glycol mixtures in closed loops but not use it in a custom loop?

"Quoted from Koolance website regarding liquid coolants:"

Liquid Coolants

Koolance's product warranty does not cover the use of 3rd-party coolants, coolant additives, or corrosion. Koolance LIQ-702 or LIQ-705 coolants are strongly recommended to help avoid issues with mixed metals or biological growth. Additionally, do not use aluminum with bare (unplated) copper or bare (unplated) brass in the same system. Do not use silver with nickel in the same system.

Koolance is pretty serious about their warranty coverage wanting the user to use their coolants and obviously there is some things they've learned the hard way, thus the need for their "Do Not" points in the quote.

Any reason why manufacturers would run glycol mixtures in closed loops but not use it in a custom loop?

Of course there is!

There is no acrylic in the loop!

As long as they control what the AIO CPU closed loop consists of, they can use what works best for them, which usually is the cheapest route they can take to the end product!

 

[Darkbreeze]

Ah, I see. Point taken and acknowledged. Now, if anybody has any ice packs, my backside could use some cooling itself. Or maybe a Peltier plate to reduce the burn of the ass whipping I got here. Heh.

 

[4Ryan6]

Ah, I see. Point taken and acknowledged. Now, if anybody has any ice packs, my backside could use some cooling itself. Or maybe a Peltier plate to reduce the burn of the ass whipping I got here. Heh.

Now that you are a moderator you have to be accountable on a higher level so you need to make sure everything you post is 100% accurate to maintain a high integrity, or else you loose the respect of the community.

I may have come down hard on you, but that's because I know you care about what you share here, and getting it right puts you above any scrutiny.

Sometimes it is better to study up before supplying input to make sure you are accurate, we can all know some things but none of us know everything, and if I mess up, I expect the same from you, to me! Ry