Is my mixture OK ??

[Neco]

I just got my Water Wetter today... wow, Summit Racing ships FAST


anyhow I dropped according to the bottle roughly 2 or 3 ounces of water wetter into my reservoir...


my Res is 1 gallin + what I have in the tubes and radiator/waterblock...


Did I mix enough ? the water is definately pinkish but not too dark, more like a transparent light pink...


I don't know if I have enough in there- as I've heard things like 4 ounces to a gallon or something..

 

[Neco]

I did a load test for 1 hour (toast) and my temps didn't go over 45 C which is nice.. the ambient in this place is something like 30 C or 80F or something like that....

 

[Gravity Man]

The mix is about right, I generally like to have 1 oz. WW to every quart of water. Your temps seem a little high, though what waterblock/pump/radiator are you using?

 

[Neco]

I by no mean shave a performance kit.

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1500+ non-overclocked.

I am using a "generic" copper water block, 12" x 5" 4 pass radiator, (alum) and a Rio180.

I have a radioshack on my shroud, running at 7volts but don't know its exact specs - at 12v it's supposed to be 85 or 89 CFM.


so I think my temps are "ok" as I don't have the best setup. I am thinking of looking into high CFM low noise fans (extremely low noise) to see if a dual fan setup would beenfit my radiator more (and I believe it will)..

I also have NO case fans (nor real room for them without modding which I am not equiped for) and my tempurate is from the in socket probe - so that could be hot air trapped in there as well.


in the meantime, I am happy with it.

 

[Gravity Man]

that sounds about right for that setup, then. I was getting temps like that under similar conditions.

 

[Tweak]

Is what water wetter does is break up surface tention. Because if that is what it does I have had sucess useing plain laundry soap. It breaks up the surface tention and gave me cooler temps.

 

[Neco]

I need more than less surface tension, I have an ALuminum radiator and a copper waterblock, so I needed an anti-corrosive agent as well.


WW works good for me all around.

 

[ol' man]

Water wetter.

Highly concentrated wetting agent for dust control, dewatering, and fire-fighting. Non-ionic surfactant additive to make water "wetter". Dilutes up to 1:4000. Odorless, blue, slightly viscous liquid. (pH-7)

http://www.taylorlabs.com/cgi-bin/webcatmain?Request=ProductDetail&Product=SP-2930

Non-ionic surfactants are dish soap and the like.