- Joined
- Oct 16, 2002
- Location
- UW, Seattle
Bear with me on this.
Running water alone in a system leads to a buildup of algae and related mono-cellular crud in your waterblocks. Ew.
Antifreeze kills, and I've found that people can smell an amazingly small amount of antifreeze. It's kind of cool at first (it kinda smells like silly putty) but there are reports on the forums of antifreeze giving people headaches... maybe on account of it being poisonous and all.
My watercooling system isn't hermetically sealed, so for me, ethyl glycol is not for the win, and let's say I don't want to buy water wetter. Why not alcohol?
Water has a thermal conductivity of 0.6 W/m*K. Alcohol is only 0.14, so a water/alcohol mix wouldn't cool as efficiently as a pure water mix.
My question is, does anybody do this? How much alcohol do you use?
Thanks.
Running water alone in a system leads to a buildup of algae and related mono-cellular crud in your waterblocks. Ew.
Antifreeze kills, and I've found that people can smell an amazingly small amount of antifreeze. It's kind of cool at first (it kinda smells like silly putty) but there are reports on the forums of antifreeze giving people headaches... maybe on account of it being poisonous and all.
My watercooling system isn't hermetically sealed, so for me, ethyl glycol is not for the win, and let's say I don't want to buy water wetter. Why not alcohol?
Water has a thermal conductivity of 0.6 W/m*K. Alcohol is only 0.14, so a water/alcohol mix wouldn't cool as efficiently as a pure water mix.
My question is, does anybody do this? How much alcohol do you use?
Thanks.