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Eliminating condensation

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sucky noob

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Aug 14, 2003
hey have any of you heard of any methods of eliminating or at least reducing condensation on a swiftech waterblock? i made a water chiller and the water gets pretty cold (below freezing), but a lot of condensation forms on the block and the plastic tubing. can anyone help?
 
Also If you have extremely cold temps, it would not hurt to insulate the socket and the back of the motherboard. If the motherboard gets wet things will kinda rust and corrode and bad stuff like that.

Ill be back to post some awsome links ;) Also, Di-electric grease is your freind :D
 
http://www.swiftnets.com/socketsealing.htm

http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/socket_condensation/intro.html




And on this one, read all five of the parts to guide that are linked at the bottom.
http://www.phase-change.com/index.php?action=Articles_page&cat=Guides&id=25&page=4

All of those are on socket sealing but for everything else, just normal pipe insulation will do fine for the hoses and you may be able to get spray on stuff for the waterblock.

Also I suggest you just use dielectric grease, in that last link it shows out how to completely remove it. But if it does not actually get that cold you dont have to worry about the socket unless it gets really cold ;)
 
so let me get this strait:

i insulate the tubes with pipe insulation

i use di electric grease to seal the socket

could i just rub the grease on the waterblock as well? would that stop the condensation? there wasnt much info on stopping condensation on the actual waterblock. I'd rather not cover it with neopreme, as it looks cool with SWIFTECH engraved on it...
i suppose if i must, i must.
any suggestions?
 
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