Quote from: soy on December 29, 2014, 05:23:59 PM

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Quote from: IonHammer on December 29, 2014, 10:14:09 AM

Oh I didn't have any specific cooling liquid so I am using distilled water at the moment?

You will have problems due to the mix of copper and aluminium in the loop. I have no idea over what timescale it will become a problem, but it would be advisable to add an additive or swap out to dedicated coolant which won't have the same problem.

So the provided cooling radiator is copper? That's a surprise.

Because water carries 50% more heat than ethylene glycol, the basic ingredient in most antifreeze coolant, I want to use distilled water (~.68 cents/gallon in Walmart) and perhaps rig up a PVC water filter with the guts from a quality water filter advertising removal of metal ions.

Go with the coolant. What ever you save initially you will pay more in the long run if you don't have coolant or additives if you truly have to go with water.

Well, the corrosion shown at a water block port was likely caused by the use of hard tap water. Distilled water alone would have slowed that way down. Distilled water with an ion filter it likely won't happen. We're talking about a 50% increase in heat carrying capability over ethylene glycol. When you use the phrase "in the long run" you must be addressing those getting free electric. e.g. padding their office expenses as for the rest of us profitability might not last long beyond recovering cost. Look at the Jalapeno.

The heat capacity of water over EG doesn't impact performance that considerably as the bottleneck for heat removal is the dissipation of heat from the radiator (not to the radiator, or block to water). It is measurable, but its not important to us.