Water cooling, what coolant colour

alichowdry

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Hi guys,
so basically I have the dilemma of picking the colour of my coolant for my very first custom water cooling loop, I have included a picture of my case:
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm195/alichowry1998/...

it is a fractal design core 1000 (I'm on a budget here!) and so basically I painted the inside of the case a bright white to give it a bit of colour and originally I was going to use Mayhems Pastel White coolant to match the paint I did inside the case, but once I painted it and put all my components back into it I feel as though if I go for a white coolant it might be just a bit too much, so I have four choices that I am struggling to choose from, the first is white, the second is black but obviously you might argue black will also look overused since I braided all my cables black, a light baby blue solid coolant also by mayhems pastel and last a darker blue UV coolant

I have included links to other peoples builds with all these colours:

the white one
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jzyLp_PeDp8/maxresdefault.jpg

the black one
http://cdn.overclock.net/a/ad/500x1000px-LL-ad90cefe_IMG_1976.jpeg

the light blue one
http://cdn.overclock.net/6/69/698937dd_icyblueangel-12_zps8febb8aa.jpeg

the darker blue one
http://s895.photobucket.com/user/shan1784/media/WaterCooled_PC/IMG_0131.jpg.html


Hope you can help! Thanks!
 
Distilled water is the best performing coolant. Use anti-microbial drops and it won't grow anything.

Coolants sometimes have a tendency to break down and coagulate which can get stuck in your blocks and other components. This doesn't happen with all, but has happened with some. If you are dead set on color, get dyes, not coolants. Otherwise, there is a reason they make so many different options of colored tubing these days.