Maranello
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Well I just read this and thought since the subject comes up alot in this forum that it would be good reading for all 
»www.overclockers.com/articles766/ |
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Maranello
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Heres another one for anyone interested in watercooling....
"Good overview of watercooling choices and information sources - The Rudy"
»www.overclockers.com/articles769/ |
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I'll sticky is for awhile. Then add it to the FAQ's
But please post only watercooling related parts/articles. There were some past posts that had a lot of good watercooling related parts/articles maybe some of you can dig them up and post them in this thread for future reference.
Thanks 
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NutCase4
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Ok, Here are some Guides on Watercooling:
»wc101.com/guides.php |
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Maranello
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Flushing your water system
Cooling technologies explained. (also about air and super cooling)
Silicone vs Vinyl hose
Coolants and chemicals
Suggestions for maximizing flow rate
Tips and tricks
How-TO... building a reservoir
Radiator air flow rates
Evaprotive cooling (a smaller bong)
Pump review/tests
Watercooling and electrochemistry
Heater core parts list... what car core to order!!! This is a must have/read for anyone. I suggest printing this one
How-To Heatercore/shroud
Chemical comparo
DIY external watercooling (why buy exos)
watercooling physics |
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Bobaroo
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this can be a good thread. |
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RyanB18
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I hope to get into watercooling soon, thanks for the good links. Any caveats?
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rklein
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Cool thread! I just recently installed a Danger Den kit so I'm pretty hungry for watercooling info right now.
Anyway, I found a nit to pick in this article by The Rudy. He writes regarding lapping the water block:
Sand the block only ONE direction by placing the water block on the sandpaper, brush, then lift it off the paper. I used to do plenty of flat-lapping for a paycheck when I worked at Great Lakes-Eglinton (»www.greatlakeseglinton.com/) in Bridgeport, MI back in the 90s. The way I learned (and it works great for me) is to use a figure-eight motion when sanding/lapping, not a straight line in one direction. The Rudy's method will get you a nice shiny surface, but I doubt it'll get you a *flat* surface. That probably won't matter when you're just making contact across a very small area (e.g. the core of a Palamino Athlon XP) but could be important when you want contact across a large surface area (like a GPU).
That's all for now.
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rklein
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Okay, another thing. A lot of the articles say to use distilled water because it's not electrically conductive. That's true...until any contaminants (e.g. dust, Water Wetter, glycol...) get into the water; then it becomes just as electrically conductive as tap water. De-ionized water is even purer than distilled water (I had a tough time finding hard facts about this, but apparently distilled water has gasses diluted in it that de-ionized water doesn't...not to mention the *ions* in distilled water ) but is actually *more corrosive* than distilled water in some situations. De-ionized water also has to be stored in special containers so it won't absorb gasses. It *will* absorb those gasses once it's in your water cooling rig, so, in practice, it makes no difference whether you use de-ionized or distilled water. The point is that either one has very little junk in it to clog your water block or radiator like the minerals in tap water would.
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noe1
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The gases you refer to are mostly nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, helium, etc. In other words, air. Hard to keep that out of water, be it distilled, de-ionized, whatever. You can get CO2 + H2 = H2CO3 but the equilibrium is far to the left so not very corrosive.
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