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everyone we were at PAX East 2017 I'm joined by thermal Mike from thermaltake we're gonna be talking about some common misconceptions and mistakes with liquid cooling because we're both talking about this there's a lot of things we see people do wrong with liquid cooling you because it's their first time or they haven't learned the right way or whatever so let's start with the common mistakes what are some of the most frequent mistakes you see when you look down like YouTube videos and stuff like that well you know I see a lot of stuff of course you know a lot of people also ask me hey what's the best way to go you know the most important thing I would see is making sure that the tubing is going to fit in the fitting properly because a lot of people might cut a little corner and you know that little corner can be a big problem for you later down the road so making sure that the tube fits into the fitting everything's tight you know but not too tight some people get a little freaked out about over tightening things and especially with a lot of blocks that are now acrylic you know seeing the transparent stuff I mean you can definitely see that become a problem you know people get a little too over anxious about some things right so you know us here at Thermaltake we're trying to educate people you know show them what you can learn from us as far as using our product I mean like our fittings for example they have a 300 ring design so there's two o-rings on the inside with an additional overhang on the owl and it's a compression fitting so it secures it properly so it's really important to look at that when you're looking at you know different fittings different colors there's a lot of options out there so we want to make sure that the Thermaltake option is going to be a good option yeah I guess to give folks some credentials you do liquid cooling all day every day I mean you did this mod and a couple days right yeah it was a couple of days I mean the paint process took a little bit but once we got that and then you know also Asus hook this up with this Maximus 9 board and we got that like last minute because it was kind of a rush you know for CES you know typical stuff but get a couple days put it together do the tube work a lot of fun yeah Mike does a lot of liquid go a knows it stop let's talk about mixing metals that's another really common thing we hear about like mixing aluminum and copper or nickel plated conference whatever give us a rundown on that so I mean you know most of our blocks that we offer are nickel plated for the most part a lot of our newer SKUs are kits a copper coal plate but it's nickel plated to you know prevent the corrosion stuff and everything and a lot of our new line is all nickel plated so it makes it real a rule neutral to be able to be used in a lot of different complex systems right and using different products we do also have other products at our copper based but that does fall on the coolant what type of coolant you use and is that coolant going to support mixed metals you know for example RC 1000 opaque supports a lot of different mixed metals more than what you may see out there so we're just trying to make things even just more options more user-friendly more compatibility okay the main thing that we're looking out for there I guess is corrosion right yeah yeah because I mean you know corrosion or stuff growing in there and all that kind of stuff you want to make sure that you don't put just regular water definitely not something from the tap right but you know our cooling scum premix got all their biocides and stuff in there so that way the coolant should last you a good 12 months we usually recommend a flush at least within 12 months and with with mentioning biocides so most these cool at least want to you so that's those agents are mixed in there is there a case where someone would want to add their own bio side well yeah if you get a coolant that does not have a bio side in it then you're definitely know it's something you have to look into her like a kill coil you know a lot of those different additives stuff that they have to premix it but it you get the formula mixed a little wrong you can have some chemical reactions so to make it a little bit easier we like to have a pre-mixed solution versus everybody having to figure out you know what's the best mix and you know they feel more comfortable with the building what have i walls that was the other thing I'm talking about I built this I do my liquid Cola have seen a ton of bubbles should I be freaked out yeah I mean one of the things I get from a lot of people is they'll send me a picture of their system right and they'll be like hey there's all these bubbles in here is this gonna go is it's a problem is it gonna overheat you know I mean just relax I mean a lot of times is gonna take a little bit to work one thing i usually recommend is put power just to the pump itself let the pump run for a while let the system run and purge all the air out sometimes you might have to tilt the system a little bit get that bubble out but it's always good to do that everything else is off no power to it and then once you get everything comfortable you feel comfortable about it then go ahead and fire it up yeah right we're just running the power through though all the liquid components liquid cooling components first makes a whole lot of sense cuz then you're at really no risk of damaging the even in the event of a league yeah yeah if you have a leak and everything's off it's the safest way to go yeah there's the other thing as with leaks how frequent are they where do things normally leak how do you prevent that type of thing well I would say the most important thing to prevent and where you're going to see the issue probably the most is your fittings because that's the largest quantity of problems that can occur and then with the fitting making sure that when you do especially hard tubing that the hard tube is cut properly and it fits all the way into the fitting don't cut corners there folks because that could be a small little leak that you'll see we're the first day or maybe even later and you're like oh hey what happened you know so keeping sure that you know what's going on and making sure everything's set up right is real important any other misconceptions or mistakes you want to throw in before we sign off here I think you see a lot that grinds your gears well you know I mean a lot of people will take a back on you know our aluminum Zara radiators or aluminum right I mean a lot of people may not know most all AIO radiators out there are aluminum based I mean it's a common thing we're blog people might not think of it that way but we do protect it and we are looking into some other solutions as well so definitely stay tuned for some other options and more stuff from thermal take care as we go into 2017 great calls for more information as always links in the description below 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