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Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 12:09 AM

/g/uize

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Does anywhere sell Distilled water?

i need around 5 liters of Distilled water, NOT deironised. Halfords only sells deironised, I dont know where else would sell it

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Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 12:25 AM

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Although the processes to produce deionised and distilled water are different, the results are (mostly) the same.

The reason behind needing deionised for PC cooling are simply to reduce a build up of scale. Distilled will also work, as would tap water or a bottle of flat coke! The important thing is to reduce the amount of residue created by the rapid heating and cooling - so in that respect, distilled would be better provided it was produced from pure steam.

Of course, deionised would likely cause less short circuit in the event of a leak... but ... wet is wet....

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 12:40 AM

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i know if it leaks it would still probably do some damage, but deironised water would corrode the the waterblocks.

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 01:03 AM

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Don't be taken in by the blurb, water cooling is a very simple thing but bigged up because of the potential damage in the event of a leak. Unless you have a warranty requiring distilled water just use standard deionised. Also, you say deironised which suggests removed iron, not the case - ions refer to electrolytes.

Most PC upgraders will happily sell you coloured water, even UV reactive water, all of which is ion rich. The important thing here is cooling efficiency, you can spend £15/month on "special" water to protect your cooling system, or replace your £100 cooling system every 3 to 4 years, assuming your PC lasts that long.

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 01:19 AM

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I was reading on other forums that the deionised water would get the ions back from the coppper waterblocks corroding them and become conductive again.

And I dont want UV reactive dyes in it, Im going to use blue tubing anyway, I upgraded my PC last year so i will keep it for at least another year. my specs are
Q6600 @ 3.7GHz
Asus P5Q pro
2x ATI HD4850 Crossfire
4GB RAM
2x 500GB Samsung F1 Spinpoints in RAID0
1TB WD Caviar Black
Antec 902

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 01:52 AM

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Nice specs

No, copper is fairly inert. It is true that there is a degree of ion transfer, but you wouldn't notice. It's a marketing ploy exagerated by people who have bought into the idea.

Seriously, cool cpu's is the goal but there are so many people out there offering the perfect solution. What is your current CpU use? on average? Ignore the spikes for now. Also, how much RAM and HDD free space?

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 02:02 AM

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I have 691GB free on my C drive (RAID0 Array) and 417GB free on my other drive, Im using 41% of my RAM running Windows 7 build 7100 and while im playing games i get around 50 - 60% load on all cores of my CPU.

my room is REALY hot, my CPU idles at 45C

and its lapped and I have 2 110CFM fans on the heatsink aswell

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Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 02:49 AM

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Hay guize, I like the reference to perhaps the worst board on the internet. Pic related.

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 05:35 AM

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Gee, am I glad I am a simple rocket scientist

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 06:34 AM

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anyway, a long time ago the chemist used to sell distilled water!

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 08:35 AM

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most chemists do sell but you may have to order it which should take a day or two to come through

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 10:29 AM

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My local car spare guy sells it in litre bottles....But he's in Liverpool!

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Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 10:44 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by delzx7r

My local car spare guy sells it in litre bottles....But he's in Liverpool!

do you know how much? i found some online for .. £4 per liter

http://sortlifeout.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=45_43

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Originally Posted by Peanuts

Hay guize, I like the reference to perhaps the worst board on the internet. Pic related.

/b/ is worse.

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 10:48 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by /g/uize

and its lapped and I have 2 110CFM fans on the heatsink aswell

45? Too cool for school! And that is a very respectable load during gaming.

BTW. what do you think of Win 7? I've been using it since January on my production PC, only popping back to XP on occasion to use Visual Studio. Just wish file search worked!

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 10:56 AM

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I know that they are good tempretures but sometimes it gets to over 60C, my room gets to about 35C during hot days

I like windows 7, it seems just like Vista but with a differant task bar lol. It is starting to look a bit like a mac though

, I used vista ultimate, I only installed it becuase i could not 'find' a x64 copy of vista.
i still dont understand what was wrong with vista and why it wasnt so popular.

Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 11:04 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by /g/uize

do you know how much? i found some online for .. £4 per liter

http://sortlifeout.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=45_43

/b/ is worse.

I think I paid about £1 or £1.50 Can't remember exactly! He's in Derby Lane, Old Swan...Shop is called Motorneeds and his name is Gary... If you were to call him mention that Del with the Evo told you about him and I'm sure he'll sort you out!

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Fri 3rd Jul 2009, 11:13 AM

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Even 60 is good - different CPUs have different heat specs but 60 is pretty cool.

The problem with Vista is it tries too hard! It takes control away from the user and assumes you know nothing and should be protected from yourself. It also put a huge burden on the hardware. Win 7 is what Vista should have been. Trust me, you are far better off with Win7 that Vista64!

The comparison to Mac is spot on - in fact I have Mac OSX running in triple boot with Win7 and XP on my HP laptop - as much as I dislike Macs, I have to admit it is pretty!