Sir Beregond

I was looking at picking up an Aquacomputer High Flow Next or one of their other High Flow products, but seems to be out of stock everywhere. Anyone have any other recommendations? I've never really used one before, but I wouldn't mind being able to keep track of coolant temp and flow rates.

People have gotten used to paying for the privilege of being "test it in prod" beta testers. True with so many things these days sadly.

That's bizarre. I would not be leaving 4 or 5 star reviews if my primary storage slots are just straight up dying or DOA.

Yep. I did manage to snag a Dark Hero, but still on the 5600X for now. Going to look at snagging a 5900X around the time Zen 4 comes out I think. I don't have a want/reason to go 5950X since I primarily will just be gaming, but would like to have some fun with OC too.

This arrived today. A little perplexed how it was bottled a month from last week (2/18/22), but otherwise can't wait. Am wondering if I should have grabbed another bottle. Oh well, will cross that path when I get to it.

Now that's a great part list.

Even on Intel though, I've very rarely touched BCLK unless just trying to squeeze that last little bit out. As for AMD, last AMD system I had was like an Athlon back in the day say 20 years ago. I am going to have to read up on how the Ryzen overclocking works. I'm a bit lost on that front.

Off topic, but just want to say how much I love the rig pic with Tux and the angry eyes.

Yeah, that looks pretty good.

Agreed. Would not have been a good thing long term in my opinion.

Oh that's good. I intend to turn off all RGB lights on the motherboard and my G.Skill RAM kit as well. Looking forward to seeing what you get out of it.

How are you liking the Dark Hero board? That's what I have sitting in a box waiting for me to build it.

Huh. I have one of these yet never thought to do that with it.

I'll be tipping the case toward that corner when I drain it, but I don't see a reason for it not to work well, given my current setup. Retrospectively I should have just installed this on the other port on the left there, oh well. Will see how it goes come drain time. It'll probably go back on the reservoir when I do the rebuild though as I will be mounting and orienting it a little differently, whereas this would not fit on the res as it is now, partly because of the way the 45 degree Monsoon fittings are, blocking one of the inlets from use. I'll be using different fittings for sure.

Not sure. Deionization just removed mineral ions from the water. Distillation will leave anything higher than the boiling point of water behind as an impurity. Assuming both waters have been filtered to account for biological organisms that won't be removed by deionization, then I think it's just better to go with distilled and call it a day. The loop will start picking up metal ions again anyway given copper, brass, nickel, stainless steel (some jetplates) in the loop, so deionized water seems overkill to me if its more expensive than distilled, and distilled is available. I haven't looked recently, so will take a look next time I am out, but I've never encountered a situation where distilled wasn't readily available and abundant.

So I did a little Googling this morning and I think it can safely be confirmed that Corsair XL8 is no longer sourced from Mayhems. If Corsair liquid cooling department is run by the old EK folks, then I have every reason to believe they just pulled a Cryofuel switcheroo given their comments below. Source 1: Corsair forums: Corsair employee confirms new supplier: https://forum.corsair.com/forums/topic/163144-corsair-xl8-fluid-vs-corsair-xl5-fluid/ Source 2: Reddit: Corsair employee shows up saying it is made in Taiwan: https://www.reddit.com/r/watercooling/comments/l0e6c9/corsair_xl8_coolant_who_makes_it/ Source 3: Reddit: Corsair employee confirms XL5 and XL8 to be "vastly different chemical compositions": https://www.reddit.com/r/Corsair/comments/nm19kx/mixing_xl8_and_xl5/ So I would no longer recommend Corsair fluid as another Mayhems rebrand if Mayhems and Mod Water is out of stock.

Yeah Corsair won't get much love from me these days. But I just saw it as a good alternative if everything else was out of stock since it was confirmed formulation of Mayhems X1 by Mick himself. But now that they rebranded it, who knows. I'm not touching it. As for distilled water, I just feel it's easier to get a bottle of quality clear coolant and be done with it knowing it has everything you need in it at the right ratios. I also have my rig in a pretty sunny room and I've noticed the X1 doesn't evaporate away nearly as fast as the distilled did. Not that it matters much for yearly maintenance, but was still something I noticed.

I used a lot of XSPC EX radiators back in the day (still running a couple in current rig). They maybe weren't the best, but I was usually pretty satisfied with them for my usage. They cleaned up pretty well too.

Yeah these were out of stock when I first looked late last year. What did you end up going with? I was probably going to grab some Alphacool rads otherwise, but I kinda hate that blue logo they put on them.

I have a drain port on my GPU right now. I'll let you know how to goes when I drain it.

And harder to keep up with maintenance wise. My first ever loop was distilled and a silver coil. Not a fan, had corrosion issues with my copper block micro fins. Not entirely sure why, but I stopped using silver after that. Second loop was distilled with that liquid utopia that Primochill started including with their tubing. Again a disaster. Third loop was distilled + the Mayhems Biocide and Inhibitor. Now this loop ended up fine (aside from crappy EK plating flaking away, but I don't blame the liquid used for that). Latest loop switched to X1 clear and it's been great.

These guys arrived yesterday. Put in an order for some Mod Water clear today. Shipping costs kinda stink. Oh well.

Possible, but no way to really know. It was going to be my coolant of last resort. I might try to email Mick @ Mayhems and see if he responds. But now that Mod Water Clear is back in stock (I swear to god it was out of stock all week), I am good.

Mod Water was out of stock all week I was looking. Thank God its back. Ordered. Yeah Corsair was not my first choice...

Was at my local Micro Center and noticed Corsair's fluid which was Mayhems X1, but branded as XL5, is now a different bottle shape and called XL8. So now I'm wondering if they have changed OEMs? Seems odd you'd change the model number if the product didn't change. Anyway, been trying to source some clear coolant since everyone is out of stock, but it's making me thing they went the Cryofuel route. Hope not, but who knows? Price also went up to $19.99 for a liter vs the $17.99 the XL5 was last time I was in here.