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germanjulian

germanjulian

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first of all I did search for this but no results where found :clap:

I can not get distilled water! so I bought de-ionized water.

whats the difference?

thanks
 
DI water is slightly worse b/c it dissolves a VERY SMALL amount of your sysems' blocks, but any performance difference should not be noticeable. ( I hate the idea of a small amount being dissolved, but in reality it shouldnt have any effect.)
 
how can you not get distilled water?
anyways, like @/2ct!< said, DI water is worse for your system because it needs to pull ions from your blocks to balance, so it will gradually degrade your system
 
What kind of **** wrote a filter that looks for naughty words in the middle to legitimate words?

Deionized water will absorb CO2 from the air producing carbonic acid -- it doesn't stay deionized for long. And what about non-ionized contaminants?
 
AZNBoiOnFIYA said:
how can you not get distilled water?
anyways, like @/2ct!< said, DI water is worse for your system because it needs to pull ions from your blocks to balance, so it will gradually degrade your system
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it's just not available here, because DI is way cheaper to produce so it's not commercially viable to sell distilled for the few people (like us and the live-steam fraternity, who for some reason don't like the solder in their boilers dissolving over time ....)who want it - only way to get it is through a contact with access to a distiller, or buy one yourself...

BTW it'd be illegal to sell distilled for human consumption here (there is a minimum calcium level requirement on bottled water) so that may be what kills the market...
 
ok today is the day I will setup my watercooling rig!!!! wicked...
got it this morning. only problem is that the pump is the version with the dc plug.... american dc plug lol.
thank god I can cut cables and put a UK one on there :)
 
germanjulian said:
ok today is the day I will setup my watercooling rig!!!! wicked...
got it this morning. only problem is that the pump is the version with the dc plug.... american dc plug lol.
thank god I can cut cables and put a UK one on there :)
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DON'T CUT IT!!!! - you'll need it to plug into the US side of a voltage converter if you want to use it ......

where did you get it from?
 
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