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EXOS questions!

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darkecho

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Im a little new to water cooling and i just got a used exos off of ebay for 100 bucks... it comes with a 478 block too for my 2.4c (already overclocked it to 3.4 but wasnt too stable hehe...) anyways, I am definately going to add some green uv dye to the water and geta blacklight in there (looks like ooze pumping through the computers veins.... its So awesome...) couple questions though, can ya put anything other than distilled h2o into the koolance or is refridgerant and other kinda stuff outa the question? and one more thing, WHAT SIZE TUBING DOES THE EXOS USE!?!?! 1/2 or 3/8? thanks all!!!!!

oh yea and is it really effective to hook up a system in series? like how you have the one tube go from the pump to the cpu then out and to the gpu and out and back? it seems to me like the gpu is then getting "used" water that has been heated up by the cpu... could one remedy this with a "y" splitting connector so that each block gets the same temp water, then just have it y" itself back together before it has to go back into the next component? like so?
********** _,.------------CPU------------------.,_
-----------<.....................GPU.................>----------------

or would there be like too much backpressure going on when they connect again? hope my text example does the trick lol....
 
I believe that the exos uses 1/4'' ID tubing. As for running your system in parallel like you are thinking, I do not believe that is in your best interest with the exos. Its pumps arent very powerful to begin with. I owned one, and ran in series without a problem.
 
Bastard you won my exos. I was waiting on the guy to email me if i came with the clamps for the water block ( wernt in pic). Oh well. Anyway as an exos owner here it goes.

Get a exos pre mixed bag of coolant for 6 bucks. I will glow under uv light, and is green. In thery( thery mind you), an exos system has only 1 type of metal, alum, rest is gold plated stuff that doesnt react galvanitly and wont eat the alum. So if you dont want to do the standard coolant, you may be able to get away with some uv dye and some anti fungal agent that you can buy for humidifiers at sears. Odds are it will cost more up front for the uv dye and the humidifer stuff.

Tubing is 1/4" inner. Koolance has this system down to a science and on paper people think there is no way to get good results with its tinny tubes and pumps. So stick with the coolance plan. Run the system in series. Koolance says there is less the 1 degree if you have it pumping into the gpu or the cpu first. If you look at sites the sites that check the intake and outtake of the heater cores, there isnt really a temp change, maybe a degree. So its not really used water going to one unit or another, the water can still take alot more heat before it stops cooling extra units.
 
i run 3 blocks in series and im still getting great performance. i wouldnt bother with getting the blocks to work in parallel, as said before the pumps are not very powerfull.
 
hey that would be an interesting way to measure how much heat the water takes away... you would think that 1 degree change in the water would mean that it must not be taking much heat away, but thats a constant one degree right, so that means however fast the pump is going, you could just take the difference of the temp before and after the cpu and you would get like heat absorbed per second or minute or somthing i guess series will work then hahah... sorry for stealing your exos :( lol there were many snipers on that page, withing 3 minutes it gained 200 views, now that tells ya somthing, i altered my strategy accordingly and entered my max bid at 6 seconds left :) lol
 
nightanole said:
Get a exos pre mixed bag of coolant for 6 bucks. I will glow under uv light, and is green. In thery( thery mind you), an exos system has only 1 type of metal, alum, rest is gold plated stuff that doesnt react galvanitly and wont eat the alum.
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Gold and aluminum will actually set up a more active galvanic couple than copper and aluminum, judging by the galvanic series. Are you sure the insides of components are gold plated too? I thought it was just the waterblocks' bases.
 
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