Haha. I've got pastels too.

Anyway, EC6 sample:

owh, not bad actually

My rig is sort of done, been playing games on it for quite sometime. So today I decided to touch it up since I left it at 95% completion state?

So when I was making custom led cables for all my leds I decided to drain the loop as it turned to purple colour. This time I bought a ph meter to test the coolant on why it is keep changing colour. Sorry for crappy images, will take better pictures with my nexus 5 when I free



Look at the coolant, what the shit is this! I seriously dont know why it keep changing from red to purple


So the ph meter is a bit off, had to calibrate it


Calibrating the ph meter..


This is the value of distilled water, its a little off. Need to do a 2nd calibration...


So I tested the coolant that is in my loop, dafuq is this shit. Why is the ph value so high? I was expecting it to be acidic since I read a post mayhem said that if the coolant is acidic & we didnt bleed the loop properly then copper oxidation can occur in the radiator & thus changing the coolant colour. I am no chemist, can someone give me an explanation or perhaps a theory on why this is happening?




Done filling her up again. This time I added little red dye compare to what I did before, I hope if it turn darker it wont affect that much. Well at least I hope so...


This is the reading when I added dye into distilled water.


When I add 1 drop of biocide into 1 cup of water, the ph drops a lot. I know I am supposed to use 1 drop per liter, I am just testing what is the possible cause of my problem. Distilled water alone & with dye has almost no difference so only possible cause now is mayhems biocide.



My measurement is right, 1 drop of biocide in 1 liter of water. Thats what is in my loop atm, nothing more nothing less. No silver coil etc either. Its been 1 day, colour is still good & I tried my best to bleed it (it was a tough job since I have 2 RX radiators). The coolant ph value that is in my loop atm is around 6.3. I thought mayhems said his dye would stabilize the ph value but that isnt the case I see. This would probably be my last try, if it still changes colour then I give up. The next time I do maintenance I will get a premix coolant instead.

Another issue I have is my sata cables is too short lol, ordered some extension. Need to wait for it to arrive to touch up & send my rig to apes for some photo session

This post has been edited by infernoaswen: Dec 31 2013, 02:30 AM

stick a piece of black paper on the pcb area to "fake" the appearance of chip?

I am still deciding to mod the SSD or not, what I can do is rotate the ssd board upside down to show the chip I guess but this will require some cutting to the ssd casing. Still not sure to go for that route or not

Please ignore all my messed up post. I tried to reorganize this thread by shuffling images around pages but end up messing up lol. So if some of the post doesn't make any sense to you then thats why.

This post has been edited by infernoaswen: Feb 6 2014, 01:51 AM

Decided to do some cleaning for my rig & finally manage to mount the SSD in the proper place. Rig was pretty much done for quite some time, just recently did some tiny touch up for the ssd. pristine I might need to borrow your holesaw again to make another hole for a fillport

wahh as usual~! Amazing job from aswen! Btw mind I asking u for ur SP120 on the front, u removed the washer behind it and just leave it like that for easy cleaning?

What washer? You mean the coil there? I just pop the fan blades & clean the radiator. Once done, just pop it back in...

yaya~ usually we remove the blade need to pop out behind first to take out the small washer and o-ring right. Means those u never put back o ? Good idea ehhh xD

Oh no, corsair fans are using magnets. Just pull the blades with a bit of force & it will come out automatically.

what?? serious??!! Wait Imma take my SP120 try! Haha

Yeah, some of the fans might require more force to remove. Just make sure you hold the back for those that are harder to remove.

okay~~ it is held together quite tight dun dare to push it some more scared it break

I am selling this rig

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3208391&hl=