Hmm, I guess I need to tell you a dark secret.

Conumdrum · Jul 17, 2013

Alrighty folks. The big build in my sig is no more. I'm using my media rig now. Plenty fast, quiet as a mouse and less power.

I tore down my 920, GTX 470s under water over the last few weeks. I used distilled, 2 killcoils, and Petras PHN nuke.

EDIT, pics are too large, have to resize... Grrr

My old beast:

Here are a few pics of the parts.

Water clarity, drained from res:

My EK Supremacy Nickel block before cleaning, still wet.

After cleaning:

Fitting and res low pic showing clarity

GPU block uncleaned, don't have a good one of cleaned. See the loss of plating on one teeny spot?

Lastly, my res cleaned. I just tore it down, washed with dish soap, wiped and dried and put it together..

And a Radiator I might be selling. Check out the fannage spacing, what is it?

Now the secret. I built this rig on 6/11. It's been TWO years and I NEVER changed the water, I just added for standard evaporation.

My tubing is still clear, I posted a pic of that. I don't know what to say, I'm a liar. Also experienced and know when I can get away with it. The proof of trouble free liquids, sterile installation, and just pure luck.

Discuss, haha Jack, have fun with this, I been teasing you!

GTXJackBauer · Jul 17, 2013

Conumdrum said:
Alrighty folks. The big build in my sig is no more. I'm using my media rig now. Plenty fast, quiet as a mouse and less power.

I tore down my 920, GTX 470s under water over the last few weeks. I used distilled, 2 killcoils, and Petras PHN nuke.

Here are a few pics of the parts.

My EK Supremacy Nickel block before cleaning, still wet.

EDIT, pics are too large, have to resize... Grrr

So you made a announcement of taking apart of your loop? Interesting... :facepalm:

J/K

The anticipating is killing me.

myndlessdayz · Jul 18, 2013

Culbrelai · Jul 18, 2013

Those the thickest rads I have ever seen Q_Q all for two 470s and and a 965?

Petra · Jul 18, 2013

Woo! Another successful long term usage of distilled water, Nuke -PHN, and KillCoils

I may not be involved with any of that stuff anymore, but it still makes me happy to see it working so well for people. Thanks for sharing, Dave

Conumdrum · Jul 18, 2013

Culbrelai said:
Those the thickest rads I have ever seen Q_Q all for two 470s and and a 965?

Yep, the rads are what I had. So I used them I guess. Was very quiet!

EarthDog · Jul 18, 2013

Thanks for sharing the secret. I did the same thing and just recently broke down my rig after 1.5 years. The block needed a bit of cleaning like yours, otherwise, all was well!

Ajay57 · Jul 18, 2013

My i ask Con whats going to happen to the Bench?? Are you going to keep it for a new project! AJ. :shrug:

Very nice in deed, but 2 years of dust maybe!!

JeremyCT · Jul 18, 2013

Very nice! :thup:

What kind of tubing was that? Looks like it held its clarity really well.

willardcw4 · Jul 19, 2013

Pretty amazing after TWO years!!!!! Nice work!

Conumdrum · Jul 19, 2013

JeremyCT said:
Very nice!

What kind of tubing was that? Looks like it held its clarity really well.

Original Primochill LRT? In fact, one or two pieces was carried over from the build before that. :thup:

GTXJackBauer · Jul 20, 2013

"I haven't had any problems with distilled + PTnuke in mine, and have gone nearly two years straight without a flush now.
In fact, my hardware needs upgrading more so than my coolant. lol!" - Martinsliquidlab

Looks really good for 2+ years I have to say. :thup:

So it still stands as the king of the hill is Distilled + Kill coil and for those that beg to differ, there's the added proof once again.

Couldn't really find the spot of the loss of plating on the GPU waterblock. Are those EK?

Really surprised that tubing held up that well. You either used magic (showed a new piece of tubing :rofl:

) or the problematic LRT's were maybe from a really bad batch.

Anyhow, great pics. :salute:

Boulard83 · Jul 20, 2013

Thanks for sharing !

Distilled WIN again ! ! !

Conumdrum · Jul 20, 2013

Koolance on 470's. Yea, it was before the bad tubing batches. 27 months old now since I bought the tubing? Used it 25 months.

Zodicus · Jul 20, 2013

Very nice. That's a true expert outcome right there folks. I wanna be just like Dave when I grow up

Psyber84 · Nov 18, 2017

How did you clean the loop Dave?

Nebulous · Nov 18, 2017

Psyber84 said:
How did you clean the loop Dave?

Holy thread resurrections Batman!

Conumdrum · Nov 18, 2017

Yep!!!!!

GTXJackBauer · Nov 18, 2017

............... :thup:

Hmm, I guess I need to tell you a dark secret.

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