Gadgetory

so since my last personal rig update I have made exactly zero progress over here so I promise to show well I don't remember if I promise to do this but I should have promised you this at some point because I was going to do it so I wanted to show you guys the procedure for cleaning out older radiators because as you guys know if you've been watching my personal rig updates my radiators are not new this is a black ice pro 2 which is the first radiator I ever bought for my first water-cooled rig and then this is a thermo chill PA one 20.4 which is a bit of a rare item these days I think there's probably rads that perform better but this is a good fit for the G jo7 and yeah the great rad there's really no compelling reason to replace it there's been some talk about what fans is line is using I actually use two different kinds of fans in my rig I'm using gelid wings they are Gaillard wings and all the places where they're visible so those are UV blue fans and then on the radiator down in the bottom the PA one 20.4 I'm actually using Silverstone air penetrator 121 s so those were one of the are are they 121 s pretty sure they're 121 s whatever the first directed airflow one so those are UV blue as well but you'll never see them because they're hiding in the bottom the reason I was using these ones is because they were the first I got them back when they were the only directed airflow fan so i rave on and on and on about the Noctua n FF 12s those are similar to these they're newer they're a little bit better but they're directed airflow so you get like a vortex of air that moves away from the fan like this so that it actually doesn't just kind of go all over the place the reason for that is in the basement of the TJ o7 here we go the white balance will be off over here but there's not really a lot I can do about that right now let's go ahead and give you guys some more light in the basement of the TJ of seven what you're doing is you're pulling the air in here and then what you ultimately want it to do is go out the other side not just get sort of sort out the other side not just get dispersed around there so that's why I went with those fans and then gelid wings for the rest of it they go there's the rest of the Gilad wings I went with those because at the time of buying them gelid wings were one of the only good-looking good performing fans that came in all the fan sizes that I needed so Noctua had fans but their 92 millimeter fan was not a pressure optimized fan it was an airflow optimized fan it was with that really really uh like highly angled I never blade design that I really didn't like and didn't really believe in that much alright so what am I doing here vinegar for one thing so a 10% vinegar and hot water mixture went into the loop now most people just flush the radiators by putting some some some water and vinegar inside them plugging them up shaking them up and then sort of doing sort of less more and more diluted until you're doing a couple flushes with distilled water in order to make sure they're all clean I knew mine were particularly gunked-up you can actually see the water is blue so I left it here for about an hour actually running so I have a pump going here here's an ax 850 running the pump for me not something to watch out for guys if you don't have quite as much radiator in your test configuration the pump can actually heat up the water to the point where it can overheat so make sure that you actually turn one of the one or two of the fans on just to make sure that it doesn't overdo it with six dot by one twenty millimeter radiators though there's enough passive cooling that I don't really have that issue so what I'm going to do now this is my 10% is I'm going to do a 5% I mean approximately 5% I don't know exactly how much water's in there but it doesn't really matter so I'm going to do a 5% mixture then I'm going to do two or three rounds of just distilled water to get the rads as clean as I can so thank you for checking out this personal rig update where it's basically me yammering about nothing and then finally in the last couple of minutes telling you what I'm actually doing and once this is done I'll be ready to put the rads back in the system which is one of the reasons why I haven't been able to install anything else because I need to route all the power to my fans and I need to get those Reds in before I can put all the front panel Bay covers seeing the rigs over there front panel Bay covers and stuff like that so don't forget to subscribe - tech tip from unboxings reviews and other computer videos