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what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and it feels like lately there's been a bit of an influx in my inbox and influx in the inbox I okay fine we'll go with it but there have been a lot of questions lately in my inbox from people doing their very first water cooling loops seeking my advice so today we're going to be doing my very first top 5 video ever on this channel and that's Jays top 5 tips for the water cooling beginner if it's ultra small form-factor with amazing speed and performance that you're after then as rocks desk mini is definitely for you featuring intel's 7th gen cpus 5x5 building block chassis and the latest m2 slot technology powered directly by the cpu allowing for even greater m2 performance the desk mini pax big performance in a small package see the link below for more details now these are not in any particular order I could naturally rank these but I sat here and I thought about this for a little bit and I actually took down some notes on things that I think about when I'm doing a water cooling loop whether you're beginner or an expert they're kind of the same thing so what you're bout to hear is in no particular order but they are kind of where I rank the top 5 things to think about when it comes to creating your water cooling loop fittings are not created equal I know there's a lot of misconception out there where all the fittings are just made in the same Chinese factory they put a different logo on there and they're all the same that's not true believe me you don't want to mess up on this because if you're going to form a leak it's going to happen at your fitting and you get what you pay for now when it comes to compression fittings for soft tubing they are pretty much similar it's just a barb with a collar that locks down as long as you get the correct size tubing in there it's always going to be a good fit it gets a little bit different when you talk about rigid tubing because of the fact that you're dealing with slightly different measurements on there with 13 millimeter or 1/2 inch outer diameter they're not exactly the same so you want to make sure you match up those numbers but trust me when I say they're not created equal every company kind of takes a different approach to the way the o-ring seals around the tube I personally like to use primo chills revolver fittings I've used them in skunk works multiple times I've used them in the redness build both times I also use it in the AMD water-cooled build I just really stand by their fittings they seem to have the tightest seal and they have you can tell how fitting is grabbing onto a rigid tube by how hard it is to pull the tube out of the fitting when it's locked down and those always have the greatest grip as far as I'm concerned now there's some new fittings out on the market too for monsoon that claim to be leak free okay well they use the word virtually because obviously nothing is leak free any fitting can leak the most expensive fitting in the cheapest fitting can develop a leak I mean there are manufacturer tolerances and defects and anything that's ever made in the world so trust me there's no such thing as a leak free fitting but we will be taking a look at that in a future video but remember guys you get what you pay for the four dollar fittings on ebay might seem really incentive asset especially when it comes with the when it comes to the rotary fittings the 90s and the twistable fittings and stuff remember those have seals in there you get what you pay for so buyer beware just please think about that if you're going to spend your money anywhere in your loop don't cheap out on your fittings the next topic here is a highly debated one and that being fans now I don't mean you guys I mean fans like fans you put on your radiator because now you have static pressure optimized fans which are fans that can keep a high pressure across resistance aka a radiator radiator does add a lot of resistance to the airflow of your fan so if you take an airflow fan or one that's optimized for open flow environment and high CFM they tend to have low static pressure numbers it has to do with the type of thin design on the fan so if you take something like that and put it on a radiator you're not going to maintain as much of an air flow across the fins as you would with something that has a static pressure optimized blade design now what you're going to notice here is if you use an airflow fan on a radiator what's going to happen is your systems going to run fine but the Internet's going to blow up if you post a picture of your system and one's going to tell you you're doing it wrong now ideally you would want to use a static pressure fan if you have one but they can sometimes tend to be a bit more expensive now there are some fans out there that are fairly inexpensive like the y8 loon fans are an amazing fan that's kind of in the middle you can use them for air flow and you can use them for static pressure and they do an amazing job at working on radiators in fact for the longest time loon fans were like the budget king of the world when it came to radiators and they came in different speeds so you could get various rpm ranges if you wanted them they range for about five or six bucks a fan that's an amazing price compared to 20 25 or even $30 fans that exists out there so ignore the internet if you don't have a lot of money to spend on a static pressure optimized fan there are options out there that are going to get you by and they're only going to be a couple of degrees at the most difference between temperatures because the size of your radiator kind of matters more than the type of fan that you're using just ignore the Internet literally well except me I'm on the Internet but ignore the comments of people that would just be like you're not using static pressure fans guys I'm not using static pressure fans on skunk works for the 560 rad they don't make a 140 static pressure fan with the removable rings like I like to use Corsair have no idea why you do that don't stress it go with the fans that you can afford like I recommend gate loon an amazing fan for an inexpensive price another topic that creates a lot of confusion amongst beginner water coolers is the idea of conduct non conductivity non conduct non conductive fluids there you go on the surface it sounds like a great idea Wow if I generate a leak nothing's gonna break it's not going to destroy anything if I you know water or the fluid leaks on my graphics card or my motherboard or whatever the problem is that's only true for a little while because as the fluid is moving through the loop it's touching metal and metal has ions and fluid loves ions it's like crack too fluid it wants it water wants ions that's why you've heard of things like deionized water which is pure pure water distilled water stuff like that but as the loop is turning and moving and moving and moving those ions do leach into the fluid which do raise its conductivity level now it's not ever going to be as conductive as something like tap water which has tons of mineral minerals in it and are is extremely conductive water itself inherently is not conductive much it is the metals and ions and other contaminants in the water that are actually conductive so non conductive fluids work for a little while the problem is they become conductive over time which is why it's going to move me into my next tip here is distilled water is still the easiest simplest and pretty much the safest way to go when it comes to beginning water color loops don't go out there and spend 40 50 bucks on high-end fluids like nano fluids and just pastels and stuff like that if you want to get up and running and you want to do it safely and on the cheap get yourself like distilled water at the grocery store or if you live in a country that doesn't have distilled water deionized water I know there's always options somewhere Amazon try that but use but use that add some dyes if you want to change the color and add a few drops of a biocide like Petey nuke or something that's going to kill the algae that could grow the benefit to using premix fluids if you have the budget for it is it has in there growth inhibitors so that you don't grow algae or other sorts of organisms inside your loop and it has anti corrosives in there so that you don't start corroding the different types of metals that are in your loop there's a lot of different metals happening in your loop and actually were going to talk about that next well I'm I'm pretty good at this whole segue thing aren't I the last tip I want to mention to you is avoid mixing metals where possible now it's never going to be possible to have one type of metal even if you go with like wow I've got an all copper radiator I've got an all copper water block the problem is you have different types of fittings in there you have plated fittings nickel-plated fittings brass fittings and you've also got stainless steels and other types of metals in your water pump and you've got the either the soft fluid or the ptg of the rigid acrylic there's different materials going on in your loop now ideally you would want to avoid aluminum where possible and that's another huge debated topic I'm not I'm not an alchemist so I can't tell you about the metallurgy and stuff but I will tell you that aluminum is tends to be the one that corrodes the worst especially you mix aluminum with other metals like copper so we want to avoid mixing metals where possible even if you go with all copper stuff on all copper radiator in an all copper water block there are different grades of copper there's different qualities of copper there's different types of metals mixed in the copper so you're never going to get one type of loop so that's we're using something like premix fluids kind of touched on and the previous tip comes in handy is it has an anti corrosive agent in there with tool cause those metals to not start to eat away at each other metals are there like gangs are always fighting they've got terrific that territory and they just are like get off my turf bro and they start eating each other you've also got nickel plating right if you've got nickel plated blocks so you're touching nickel plating distilled water is the easiest it's 10th it's not really going to have any issues with your medals but for a little extra insurance and if it makes you have a little bit more peace of mind which is kind of the hard part to get for beginner watercoolers is always terrified something is going to break in their system then going with some sort of a prefilled or pre-mixed fluid that has an anti corrosive in there and an anti growth agent is going to help with the mixing of metals in your loop now those are the five that I came up with but obviously there are much more than five tips out there when it comes to water cooling a lot of you guys that follow me are veterans so if you think I missed something or you think there was something that was worth being mentioned in this video bring it up in the comments tell me what it is or better yet take it over to Twitter and tell me what you think should be included in the next series of 5 tips for our next video for 5 tips for beginning water cores is something we'll kind of keep going and maybe we'll make a playlist over time so there it is guys hope you guys enjoyed today's video if your beginner I hope it's helped to answer a couple of questions these are these are tips I came up with because of the common questions I'm asked I think these kind of hit most of those anyway time to go thanks for watching guys and don't forget I'm giving away three graphics cards right now you guys have no idea what I'm talking about then you're gonna want to check this video that just I just slid out right here trust me it's a it's a big one we're giving away 10 60 at 10:17 to 1080 you don't want to miss this in its open world wide time ago good luck and don't forget to enter