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Ahhh, she'll be fine! Fire it up and enjoy those sexy overclocks! It's not every day you get to try subzero water.
 
No, the person is not stupid and is not an idiot, just screwed up as he said, it happens. (I am sure we all have our own horror stories of things we had done that we wish we had not.) Chances are, he forgot that his computer was in the car and just went to bed. Woke up, remembered, rushed out and found the damage already done.
 
ManofGod said:
No, the person is not stupid and is not an idiot, just screwed up as he said, it happens. (I am sure we all have our own horror stories of things we had done that we wish we had not.) Chances are, he forgot that his computer was in the car and just went to bed. Woke up, remembered, rushed out and found the damage already done.
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At least he didn't leave his kid in the car.:)
 
ManofGod said:
No, the person is not stupid and is not an idiot, just screwed up as he said, it happens. (I am sure we all have our own horror stories of things we had done that we wish we had not.) Chances are, he forgot that his computer was in the car and just went to bed. Woke up, remembered, rushed out and found the damage already done.
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When we got posted in February I took my PC into every hotel I stayed at along the 4 day trip. There was no way I was risking it.
 
djstarfox said:
I thought water cooling setups are supposed to contain anti-freeze/coolant?
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Nah. You can mix any number of things into the loop, but most run very close to plain distilled water, with a splash of algicide or silver coil.

Even if you go with a "professional" mixed solution there may be some surfactants, colorants and algicides in there, it antifreeze is probably very rare.

After all we don't really use our computers outdoors in the snow.
 
auntjemima said:
Ahhh, she'll be fine! Fire it up and enjoy those sexy overclocks! It's not every day you get to try subzero water.
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Lol, but when the liquid freezes it's going to expand. The ice probably busted all the blocks and the reservoir.
 
djstarfox said:
I thought water cooling setups are supposed to contain anti-freeze/coolant?
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Read it, he used distilled, it's gonna expand by a lot lol. And as for coolant, it wouldn't have helped unless he used antifreeze which no one would have used anyways.

Shit happens, shrugs. That is soo unfortunate and the blocks look fubar'd.
 
thesmokingman said:
Read it, he used distilled, it's gonna expand by a lot lol. And as for coolant, it wouldn't have helped unless he used antifreeze which no one would have used anyways.

Shit happens, shrugs. That is soo unfortunate and the blocks look fubar'd.
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Yeah, in the early days when water cooling wasn't a commoditized industry, and every rig was more or less a custom job using VW transmission radiators, it wasn't uncommon for people to use antifreeze, but these days, by my estimation antifreeze in your loop is pretty damned rare.
 
id bet that most of the cooling fuilds you can buy are based off antifreeze/prop. glycol and distilled water. ive never looked at the labels for ingredients, doubt they list them.
 
I used 900ml DW and 100ml mayhems x1 in my PC.
Just a basic build.
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pendragon1 said:
id bet that most of the cooling fuilds you can buy are based off antifreeze/prop. glycol and distilled water. ive never looked at the labels for ingredients, doubt they list them.
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No, you have to specifically choose a glycol antifreeze based coolant. Lets stop acting like sub-freezing is a standard protection for pc watercooling because its not.
 
ManofGod said:
No, the person is not stupid and is not an idiot, just screwed up as he said, it happens. (I am sure we all have our own horror stories of things we had done that we wish we had not.) Chances are, he forgot that his computer was in the car and just went to bed. Woke up, remembered, rushed out and found the damage already done.
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Well, stupid if he knew it was cold and intetionally left it in the car.

If - however - he didn't realize it was going to be sub freezing, or didn't mean to leave it in the car but forgot it there, or something like that, or someone else was helping him move and didn't realize there was water in it, then he just had bad luck.
 
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