Gadgetory

what's up guys Jays two cents here and I've got some work I've got to do on the test rig it's been a while since we've used this and I figured this is a perfect opportunity to opportunity I'll start slurring my words here I've been drinking the coolant I swear I figure this an opportunity here to show you kind of how I do my loop maintenance I've done a video on this before but I'm still asked this all the time so I figured what a perfect opportunity to both teach and get some work done it's going to talk about how I flush my systems now for starters here we need distilled water and to knock over a bottle but we use distilled water here at least to get as much of the impurities out as we can this is not going to be a deep cleaning a deep cleaning would be taking the whole system apart flushing stuff like hot water and vinegar and other system cleaners through it we're not doing that today so as more of those do as I say not as I do things that would be the most thorough way to do it but the most time sensitive way of doing it is we'll just be using distilled water and I'll show you the process for that you need some sort of a catch to catch the fluid and we'll show you what I mean by that again as I do the demonstration but if your system has a drain port in it and you put it at the lowest portion of the loop like I'm always telling you guys then this process will be a whole lot easier and you're also going to need some sort of a jumper for your power supply unit or you can just jump the green and black wire on your 24-pin look at the diagram for it don't just start plugging things in especially if you guys have a power supply that has all black cables yeah so these are like a dollar and some in fact some companies are now including these with the water cooling parts and then last but not least I am using a 3/8 fitting right here as well as a scrap piece of tubing which is going to attach right here so that we can drain stuff out of the system so let's go ahead and get started here the first thing I'm gonna do is remove the plug right here and do yourself a favor make sure that that's closed off before you do that the easiest way to remember if it's closed or open is if it's perpendicular and you have a siren going sirens are important together you're going to have sirens if the valve handle is perpendicular then it's closed if it is parallel then it is open that's the easiest way to remember so we're going to take our fitting right here we're just going to screw that in just like that we're going to take our hose so now we have here is a way to control our fluid flow and the other thing we have to do is remove the top to your reservoir okay so flip off the switch to your power supply if it has it so make sure there's no power going to it yet remove your 24 pin from your motherboard and plug in your jumper quick note though this is only going to work if your pump is plugged into a power supply cable like a 4-pin molex or a SATA power if it's plugged into a header on the motherboard this method isn't going to work you'll have to plug it into an adapter to your power supply so that's important I'm going to start by draining what's in the reservoir here some so take your hose put it in a hole I told you the jokes are going to be real with this one and then just go ahead and drain whatever will come out do that I always think it's me watching the physics involved with this I mean look you have water flowing up over there right it's pretty neat look at the rings cap her off again I guess the cool it doesn't actually look all that bad it still looks pretty close to the color we put it in there I'm not taking the coolant out right now because of color change I'm honestly just taking it out because of maintenance I mean we've been running this coolant in here now for she's probably close to a year now so it was Green before that and then I flushed it put in white pastel again and made it pink I like the pink color but it's time for change so we're going to do now is now that that's capped off we're just going to fill up our reservoir once again with distilled water oops I just poured a little bit there all right now if you've done everything right when you flip on your power supply it will cycle the fluid there we go so as you can see it kind of mixed up again it's a little bit more cloudy but now this is the part where while it's running I will just let some of it come out keep an eye on your bottle too so you don't overfill it also do not let the level go below the bottom of the reservoir you don't want to suck air into the pump this is the part right here right pretty much just repeat this process over and over and over until we get clear fluid okay one thing I want to mention here too is this stuff depending on the fluid that you're using may not be legal to flush down the toilet or the drain it may not even it may be corrosive to those materials you need to pay attention to the proper disposal methods for the fluid that you're using so I'm not giving you any instructions on how to actually dispose of this stuff that's on you a few moments later and you can see it's pretty clear by now the block is clear the reservoir is looking pretty clear it looks a little bit cloudy is because this Rezo is kind of old it needs to be cleaned we'll talk about that in a second but one thing you want to be mindful of - if you want to wipe things like the rim the threads for the caps the others a little bit of dye left in the cap right there there's even some dye that works its way down into the threading right here in the reservoir so now we're basically going to do is we're going to go ahead and shut it down and we're going to drain out as much of the fluid as we possibly can because we now want to disassemble the tubing here to clean all that off you also want to clean off any threading on caps you can see that there's some it kind of sounds like after I've had Mexican food you want to clean the threads of anything that's going to be touching that you can easily access so that's why you want to take it apart and just wipe down as much of it as you can because if you have any of this dye still in there right this old fluid it's going to well it's going to just add itself to whatever you do next kind of like the back up buzzer from that truck is just adding itself to this video this is also the perfect time to to kind of take a look at your water block come over here because if your water block you've got a lot of micro channels and stuff in there and this is not a supremacy Evo block I should be actually changing this block right now - because they sent me another one but if you have gunk and stuff stuck in here you see some color then your I want to take it apart and actually clean that out with a soft bristle brush so I'm going to go ahead and while I've got it empty I'm gonna take this opportunity now to go ahead and install the right block nothing gets me quite as happy as seeing the nice shiny side of a brand new water block so this is what one of the water blocks actually looked like taken apart right it's pretty neat it's not just a piece of metal which is what they used to be in the past we've got all these little micro Jets right there is little micro fins are super Samuel give an idea of how thin they are I can barely fit that piece that's 1/10 of a millimeter in between them right if I go the thicker one which is a quarter of a millimeter or 0.25 you can see it doesn't sit doesn't sit between them so you can see how just how fine those are what we're going to mix my coolant now I'm using the Mayhem's x1 clear concentrate this actually makes 2 liters of fluid which is nice normally fluids will dilute into one liter the concentrates will anyway but this affiliates into 2 liter so we got to put 1.75 liters of fluid and so what we're going to do is we're just going to fill this bottle which is one liter and now we're going to transfer it into here such a fascinating video riveting it's what's Jaipur water in the world now you might be asking yourself Jay how you going to know exactly what's one or three-quarters of a leader when they're not there's no markings on the bottle easy we're going to pour this in and then fill it because this is point too far this is 250 milliliters right here and now we just fill the rest of the way so that smells strong oh oh forgot how much these pre-mixed coolant actually smell we're going to add a little color to this and I'm not going to add it to the bottle I want to leave this bottle clear and we better label it so we hope they pour it into you know anything it smells like a game for Russia we're going to add color to this we had let's decide on a color in a second but we're not going to add it to here because we want to be able to reuse this and not be stuck with it ever color we choose right plus it would take a lot less dye to add color to our loop than it will be to add it to two liters of fluid so this is the good stuff we'll set that aside it can be in charge of labeling this afterward and what we're going to do now is we're just going to go ahead and fill up our reservoir and now we're going to do like we did earlier we're just going to fill it up cool look at that go buh buh this loop I swear is the easiest loop to fill of any loop I've ever done do we want to do like an electric blue that would go good with the purple light right here it's use the electric blue so if we had UV lighting it would show up but steel blue we feel we should do blue steel electric UV blue it's not blue steel steel blue well I am with you it definitely takes more than one drop to make color happen I like the way it all sits on top though whoo that's a cool looking color let's go get teal anyways okay well it's very watered down right now you know it also is an all mixed in there so a lot of here we have a block it's very like crystally I like it the reservoir always is going to look darker though than the tubing because the doop the tubing is going through like the the plastic which kind of lightens it up a little bit plus there's just more fluid in the reservoir so it's up and running it's nice and quiet we're running at 24 C right now on the CPU of course its stock voltage right now 7900 X will be overclocking that and seeing what we can get out of it but once you do guys actually service your loop so it depends on quite a few factors it depends on how hot the loop has gotten as the loop gets hotter various fluids can break down the nanofluids don't like to exceed there's certain max temperatures but it depends also to how old it is I tend to change mine at least once a year some say they can go two years or more I once a year is pretty much how I'll do it sometimes every six months depending but there's just so many factors in there the best you can do is really refer to the users guide for the different coolants that you're using there's so many different types of coolants on the market distilled water 2 is perfectly fine if you're using something a biocide in there to keep growth from happening typically distilled water though would have to be changed out a little more frequently usually about 6 months is when it's ideal to change that out but there those guys I figured make a video while I'm doing it you guys are always asking me about loop maintenance and that's how I do it so with that said guys thanks for watching and as always I'll see you in the next one you