Poll: What is your water mixture?

[J37X]

I have seen many different suggestions for additives to the water. Antifreze, WaterWetter, Windshield Washer, Purple Ice, and many others are often mentioned. It would be nice to have a listing of the most commonly used, and at what ratio the mix is. It would also be informative to note the products used in your cooling system.

thanks, hope this thread goes well :)

[Monaco]

Deionized water if I can get it.

Distilled water if I can't.

Regular pure tap water if I forget to run the distiller.

I've never used any additives, I still say it's a waste of time IMHO.

[TruckChase!]

Distilled Water + a tiny bit of Redline Water Wetter to reduce surface friction. I haven't noticed any performance increase with Water Wetter, but I did have a coper water block worn through after a year of use. Water wetter seemed to clear that prob up, as the same block was used for a year and a half without probs after the addition.

Any other additives will generally decrease performance. Antifreeze or something similar should only be used if you're running the water below 32 deg. f. Some people have said that adding a bit of Jet-Dry lowers temps, but I'm a bit skeptical myself.

[UserName]

You Wore out a water Block?

[TruckChase!]

Yup, BE cooling... right when they started. I ordered 3 and one of them wore through after a year of use. It destroyed my video card before I was able to shut it down. (at the time a brand new voodoo3) I've been running another identical water block with water wetter ever since with no problems.

[UserName]

HOW...
WHAT...

Color me flabergasted.

What wore out? Are you saying the water wore the copper away? Can't be. You got a pic?

[TruckChase!]

Eventually the water wore a hole through the face of the waterblock smaller than a pinhead. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic... digital cameras were way too expensive then. :)

Those waterblocks were VERY thin on the CPU side. It wore through near the edge of the block, right near where the water enters the block.

[DarkArctic]

I use distilled water and water wetter.

I'm also wondering how you wore out a waterblock. Was it one of those that had plexiglass as the top and copper as a base?

-DarkArctic

[DarkArctic]

Originally posted by TruckChase!
Eventually the water wore a hole through the face of the waterblock smaller than a pinhead. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic... digital cameras were way too expensive then. :)

Those waterblocks were VERY thin on the CPU side. It wore through near the edge of the block, right near where the water enters the block.


Ouch, that's tough luck man. I'm glad I have water wetter in my system.

-DarkArctic

[ButcherUK]

I run deionised and water wetter - the water wetter keeps down corrosion and any bacterial growth in the system.

[Gravity Man]

I use distilled water and water wetter. 1 oz. WW to 1 qt. water.

[GoldenTiger]

Plain water without the wetter does wear through blocks. I've seen a lot of people post every so often that it wore through.

[JFettig]

iv been kinda thinkin(dont worry i do that sometimes)
but isnt watterwetter the same as soap? so if i dont want to get water wetter i could just use soap?
or would that really screw stuff up?

[Warlord2]

I use ~90% distill and ~10% waterwetter

you can use a small amount of soap to keep down the bacteria but it wont pervent corrosion like waterwetter does

Anti-freeze has waterwetter in it so if you have no waterwetter just use some anti-freeze

Ive used both with no temp change

[J37X]

I remember reading someone using "jetdry" , which is a soap for dishwashers i think. The idea behind using a soap is to break down surface tension, so the water flows more easily.

[Newbie_Doo]

Distilled water with Redline Water Wetter (3 capfuls in 1/2 gallon of coolant). I have had NO trouble with galvanic corrosion in over a year of cooling. My blocks are copper, the fittings are brass, and the radiator is aluminum. The radiator has no pits or erosion, and neither does anythinig else.

The temperature delta isn't really enough to notice any performance increase with water wetter or without. I use it to inhibit growth and corrosion. So far so good.

N_D

[Wahoogie]

To full up my inline watercooling I poured a US. Gallon into a tub of Distilled water, then added 9 cap fulls of waterwetter, like it says to on the bottle.