Hi everybody,

I will soon join the WC club as I have ordered lots of nice stuff to clawhammer

I have also started a worklog on my build project (Silverstone TJ-07): http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1132713

As of right now, I am still waiting for the WC gears to arrive, but I will surely need advice to setup the WC stuff once it will be there. So anyone is welcome to check my worklog and post their ideas/advices/comments

Woot Woot

I'm excited like a kid before Christmas

What water do you use for your WC and where to buy ?

Is regular water for car battery ok ?

I just want to run "clear water" in my loop so the other coolants doesn't interest me

The distilled water from 7eleven / jusco is labeled as distilled water or something else ? Is it in the auto department ? I'll go grab some tomorrow

What about the Petronas battery water I bought ? Would it be okay ? I just bought for flushing atm

I think battery water is supposed to be either distilled or deionized. But since I'm not too sure, it is probably a safer bet to go directly for distilled water.

Ok. So I have tried to find distilled water in a small DIY shop nearby, Tesco, Houz depot, 7eleven and Giant today without success. Either it is not easy to find or I don't know where to look but I really can't find anywhere

So the person who are using distilled water, can you please tell me where EXACTLY are you getting it ? In which department of which shop in which town ? (preferably PJ, but if it is KL I'll go there) ?

According to clawhammer it is okay to run on battery water, but since I just spent close to 2K on my WC gear, I rather be safe than sorry

Hey your rig is nice !

Where did you get the sleeving for the ATX cable ? I ordered some but after starting sleeving, I am not liking it. The one I have becomes transparent after extending it and you can see the color of the wire though.

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Aug 23 2009, 08:09 PM

Ok ! So if anything happens to my stuff because I use battery water, I'll make you replace everything for free

What I am worry is that some battery water may be a very low quality deionized/distilled water which aren't really safe

Sorry for the noob question but in which department of the hypermart do you find it ? Auto department ? With other drinking waters department ? House cleaning products department ?

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Aug 23 2009, 10:47 PM

Oh, you mean regular Spritzer water. First, I didn't know this is distilled water and second I thought distilled / deionised water is not drinkable (it doesn't mean if you drink a glass you would die, but more like only drinking pure distilled/deionised water for weeks/months would not be good)

I am wondering if they are not actually adding some stuff after distilling it



EDIT: After some search, it seems distilled water is perfectly drinkable. No wonder I couldn't find distilled water, I was trying to find everywhere except at the water / drink department

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Aug 24 2009, 12:24 AM

I am waiting for the motherboard tray to come back from painting. Without it I can't do much at the moment.

I wanted to sleeve my PSU this WE, but I am not happy with the sleeving I ordered. It is too transparent and I can clearly see the color of the wires through. I'm going today to Jln Pasar to try to find something better.

The problem is I want to sleeve in white so it is difficult ... except maybe if I spray paint the wires

No, the thing is to find the right sleeving. The one I got is composed by 1 wire for the braid. The one I want is composed with several wires (not sure if you get waht I mean). with the second type, you can't see through as the braiding is much tighter.

I checked on the Net and it seems I have to look for Techflex PET and I might be able to find it in Jln Pasar.

I found some sleeving, but they had only white color (which is good for me as it is the color I was looking for),

You can check the update on my build there for more detail: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1132713/latest

Oh and look what I found today in my store room:





I completely forgot I had this 3 bottles. I bought them last time the management warned there might be water disruption in my condo. It is written "process-distillation", so I guess it should be okay ? Is it what you was talking about owikh84 ?

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Aug 24 2009, 09:59 PM

Actually, on the side of the bottle, it specifies how much sodium, magnesium, vitamins, fat and what not => everything shows 0. So it seems it is really pure distilled water.

But thanks for letting me know for the pharmacy

I think I read somewhere that the food coloring tends to separate after a while and it also tarnish tubing and blocks. Try to check on xtremesystems forum, I think the question as already been raised

Contact clawhammer, get some WC gears and you're in

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Aug 28 2009, 07:06 PM

I am officially member of the water cooling club for few minutes

Same settings, no air-cond, case closes

AIR Cooling: (Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX)




WATER Cooling:



-15*C ...

Times to crank up the GHz

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Aug 31 2009, 05:44 PM

Nope, just plugged in. I wouldn't dare lapping the WB. I did lap my old E4300 but I haven't for my current Q6600.

It doesn't happen if you choose good and reliable components. All the Thermaltake and other so called WC budget sets are not reliable and you end up most of the time with some hardware killed. Most important component being the pump since if you hooked up your WC correctly (= no leak), that's the only component that can fail.

Swiftech pumps are rated for 50,000 hours MTBF = 5 years lifetime for 24/7 operation ... I guess you get what you pay for

In my case, I'm doing the leak testing with all the required hardware hooked up (mobo, CPU and GPU if you have your GPU in the loop). Obviously, I only powers the pump.

The reason is because although you leak test w/o hardware and have no leak, it may still leak once you put everything together. There is a thread on XS forum where people about people leak's stories, and I think there are at least 2 of them who had leak test w/o hardware but then got a leak once everything was hooked up.

It is because w/o hardware the tubing can "hang" where it wants to as it is free. But once hooked up, there may be just a little bit more stress on the tubing because then you have to make the tube go where YOU want to. In the 2 stories, that little more stress on the tubing actually made the barbs unscrews themselves just a little bit then provoking a little leak.

Moreover, even if water goes on the hardware and it's not powered, it is almost impossible that the hardware gets damaged ... except if you leave it soak in the water for 24 hours
If there is water, you just dry thoroughly with warm hair dryer /and/or pure alcohol and leave it dry for 24 hours.

But then clawhammer as much more experience than I have, so I guess you can also do it w/o hardware if you do it the right way
I am just pointing out for new comers so they can be aware of this possible problem. If you leak test w/o hardware, make sure you force the blocks to be as closed as possible as there final position to make sure the extra stress won't make the barb loose

This post has been edited by r4st4m4n: Sep 24 2009, 02:06 PM

very nice setup. The only thing would be to sleeve the PSU wires