Mousemagician
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2010
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I did a mini-ITX build done in 2013 with the The Swiftech H220. I loved it, but switched to other builds soon after and parked the X220 until December 2019.
In December 2019, I expanded the old Swiftech H220 (CPU blck/pump and 240 mm radiator) with an Alphacool Eisblock GPX-N Plexi GeForce RTX 2080 Ti M01 to cool a Zen2 mini-ITX gaming system.
Little detail: I DID NOT CLEAN the water loop before building the Zen2 mini-ITX system.
Rather, I drained it of the old original coolant and filled the system with a clear alpha-cool pre-mixed liquid:
Three months after, I re-purposed these components to a dual-system build. Below the YouTube video of this last build
By the time of draining the loop, this is what came out:
Whatever that green thing is, it is not good!
...this may serve as a confirmation that...
water-cooling loops MUST be cleaned before re-using them!!!
In December 2019, I expanded the old Swiftech H220 (CPU blck/pump and 240 mm radiator) with an Alphacool Eisblock GPX-N Plexi GeForce RTX 2080 Ti M01 to cool a Zen2 mini-ITX gaming system.
Little detail: I DID NOT CLEAN the water loop before building the Zen2 mini-ITX system.
Rather, I drained it of the old original coolant and filled the system with a clear alpha-cool pre-mixed liquid:
Three months after, I re-purposed these components to a dual-system build. Below the YouTube video of this last build
By the time of draining the loop, this is what came out:
Whatever that green thing is, it is not good!
...this may serve as a confirmation that...
water-cooling loops MUST be cleaned before re-using them!!!