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what's going on everyone James $0.02 here and you know last week I did a five pc myths explained video and you guys really liked it and I asked you what do you guys want me to do and kind of follow up with that series and overwhelmingly you guys said please do a water cooling version well I've actually done that back in 2014 but here we are three years later does no problem doing it again right we can recycle content around here remember reduce reuse recycle so I would do things around here we reuse my can I just read up load it with today's date cooler masters master key Pro series of keyboards offer sixteen point seven million color RGB genuine interior switches a variety of sizes as well as surface mounted controls allowing full customization without the need for stand-alone software learn more by following the link down below ok so there's going to be in no particular order but these are five water cooling myths that I hear all the time that I just want to try and debunk the first one being a larger reservoir gives you lower temperatures now that's bupkus say bupkus why are you looking at me like that when I say bupkus that kiss means it's not good it's wrong larger reservoirs do not increase your cooling capacity whatsoever all it does is take a little bit longer for your system to reach its max temperatures but the reservoir and the amount of fluid in your system have absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the minimum and maximum temperatures that you're going to achieve what a larger reservoir really does is it makes it a lot easier to fill your system and to bleed out the air having a large reservoir to feed the pump allowing it to kind of prime the system more easily without having to constantly refill it makes it just a whole lot easier and simpler for the Builder but it doesn't do anything for temperatures now here's one I think we've all heard a million times and my inbox always has these crazy suggestions about adding a ton of radiators to a system to see what will happen and that is adding more radiators to your loop will lower your temperatures now that's not necessarily true because once you exceed the amount of thermal capacity that you need for the components in your system and they might have heat being produced then everything beyond that is just lost you can't possibly go lower the room temperature either when you're dealing with water cooling is remember you have an air to water exchanger so the air temperature going through your radiator possibly cool the fluid below what that air temperature is which is going to be your ambient temperatures now that doesn't necessarily mean adding more radiators couldn't be beneficial though you heck you can have extra radiators and slow your fans down to increase your thermal capacity because remember not only is the radiator responsible for removing the heat from the fluid the fans and the air is responsible for removing the heat from the radiator so you could add more radiator surface area and have slower fans for a much more silent system but you are never going to get more cool than you are in the environment that the system is in that's also another thing here going to talk about real quick kind of a bonus add-on to this myth is adding water cooling means you're not going to heat up your space or your room or your office as much and to that I would say you're probably going to heat it up more because you're more efficiently removing that heat from the component to the atmosphere so having water-cooled systems is also not mean doesn't mean you're going to have a cooler room having water-cooled systems it's probably going to heat your room up even more so here's one I don't hear that often anymore but it's still worth mentioning because I heard it a lot in the beginning when water cooling was really starting to take off as a genre amongst PC and busiest and that being non-conductive fluids are safe if they leak that's only a half-truth because they do become conductive over time the longer they spend touching metals and moving through the system the more ions they grab and collect and because it wants to be charged it's just like a nature of fluid to want to be charged with ions and they can become conductive over time now how long it takes for that to happen and the level of conductivity it will gain over time is going to has way too many factors for me able to answer that for you today but the point here is I want to tell you that non conductive fluids are only safe in the beginning of their lifespan but the longer they run in your system the more dangerous they can become in the event of a leak remember while water cooling is an inherent risk when you're dealing with fluids leaks are never good even with a non conductive fluid now a lot of people for this very reason will run pure deionized or distilled water they seem to think it's the most safe and as long as you have some sort of an anti corrosive anti growth inhibitor in there then distilled water is still one of the cheapest and safest fluids to use in your water cooling loops now this next one's going to be a little bit controversial that being done we'll gunk up your system well that's only a partial truth once again because there are so many factors here the type of fluid you're using the concentrate of the fluid you leave using with premix was it a concentrate did you mix it yourself did you use distilled water to use tap water what kind of died to use and how much did you use so there's so many different factors in that now if you go with some sort of a pre-mixed coolant or die you're probably not going to have a problem because a manufacturer mixed it to the proper parts per million but if you start mixing things yourself and coming up with custom colors you could create some sort of pH imbalance in your system that could promote growth which would ultimately cause all sorts of problems in your system so it really comes down to you to be well I don't know you really do your due diligence on what's safe and what's not typically in my experience darker colors like reds oranges yellows and yellow is based off a red dye by the way guys that's going to typically give you a little bit more of a problem than your lighter colors like light green light blue and white I've never had a problem with any of those colors so honestly here if you're a beginner I would recommend just getting pre-mixed non concentrated fluid pour it in and call it a day now this next myth is one that we hear all the time it is going to be argued forever until the end of time and that's never going to change and that being that loop order matters I'm here to tell you that it doesn't matter the only thing that has any benefit whatsoever is putting your reservoir in front of the pump and higher than the pump which makes priming your system easier but once the system is primed in all the air is out of it you could flip your case upside down as long as the air stays out of the loop and it would still pump no problem whatsoever how do you think a i/os work you can flip those around in any orientation and they still work that's the only thing that matters and it has to do with making it easier on you to get your system primed a lot of people tend to think if you have your GPU before your cpu in terms of loop order that you're going to heat your CPU up under load and it's just going to get hot what that doesn't matter and I will be doing a video showing you different loop orders and documenting the temperatures and showing you that it makes negligible difference it's not going to heat up parts as it moves over them what's going to happen is your system is going to equalize at a certain temperature based on the amount of Watts that can be dissipated on your radiator service area but don't go too big on your radiators remember what we said in the other myth there is a diminishing return there but once you've exceeded the amount of cooling capacity you need to keep the components in your system cool that's where the temperature is going to equalize that regardless of the order of components now there are things that can make some minut differences two temperatures and that being something like parallel loop versus a series loop and that's a whole different topic for a different day but once again your radiator is what determines your temperatures not the order of your loop anyway guys you guys requested this video and I went ahead and did it I really am having fun doing these myth videos and and the really important ones like I just talked about loop order they're going to get follow-up videos where we actually show it in action on the differences and the tangible differences and how it really boils down in real-world scenarios so that's that thanks for watching guys and remember if you have myths that you want me to talk about and really good ones to actually either do mythbuster type scenarios on then guys make sure you tell me down in the comments or head on over to Twitter at juice 2 cents and let me know that's why this video is even made today because it was a highly popular requested one on the last 5 pc myths that we talked about thanks for watching guys as always I appreciate your views they mean a lot around here and of course we will see you in the next one you done back there