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Radiator Performance, blue dye

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j3ttblack

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Hello fellow water coolers.

One thing I have not really seen addressed in various articles and forum threads on water cooling is radiator performance. What factors affect it, aside from pure surface area? Is one company's rad better than another? That sort of thing.

I've got a swiftech setup inside my case (I prefer to keep it self contained), however the rad I got is blue...and my case is black. I've been thinking about getting a new rad in black, and I was wondering if there is something I could do for a performance upgrade over the stock swiftech one.

Additionally, how/where do people find that cool blue dye? Right now I use the HydreX stuff that comes with the swiftech kits, I"d really really like to make the water in my lines blue, that would rock!!
 
Does UV dye only look blue under UV light? I've got 2 blue CCFL lights in my case now, but I don't really want to change them to UV. If this is is still blue, but just not glowing radioactive blue, that would be perfect!

Also, do you add anything else to the water if you use dye? The HydrX stuff says it stops algae, anti corrosion, etc.
 
With the coolant product you have similar protection and it will be blue (looks like windex window cleaner
 
j3ttblack said:
Also, do you add anything else to the water if you use dye? The HydrX stuff says it stops algae, anti corrosion, etc.
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HydrX leaves a residue supposedly as time progresses the solution precipitates whatever was disolved in it.

Don't worry about algae it is a myth. (unless you loop is connected to a friggin pond or open res) The green stuff most peopel see is Copper Corrosion.
 
J-Mag said:
Don't worry about algae it is a myth. (unless you loop is connected to a friggin pond or open res) The green stuff most peopel see is Copper Corrosion.
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Not exactly true. If you're a cheap ass, and fill your loop with straiight tap water, expect to have a biology experiment living in your system.
 
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