Sir Beregond

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.

Nope. Would have been nice, but not with these models.

Oh, didn't realize the Sony piece. Still would hate for a time to come when everything is under Sony, Microsoft, and EA.

They really are trying to acquire everyone aren't they.

I'd be comfortable taking a look. Good call.

I was thinking the same thing, but thought I'd make sure I wasn't being dumb. Thanks for confirming.

I've got an older Corsair AX850 PSU (the gold one) I was planning to repurpose for my current build coming up. I probably bought it in 2011 and it's been sitting in my parts closet since 2015 when it came out of the old build that this current build replaced. Current build has an AX750 in it. I also have an unopened AX1200 from around that same era from an RMA. Kind of have a surplus of PSU's in my parts closet. Any reason this wouldn't be fine to use? I realize it's now 11 years old, but given it hasn't actually been used for 7 years, seems like it should be fine? Otherwise was going to look at just picking up a Seasonic Focus-GX most likely at the local MC, but if I don't have to, then not gonna. Edit: It's this one:

Those are exactly what I bought today, plus 10% off which basically covered the shipping.

Just ordered a GTS360 and GTX360 from PPCs with their MLK Day 10% off coupon code. They didn't have anything else I was looking for in stock unfortunately.

Samsung SSD's seem to be doing very well.

Yeah my only other slow computer still in the house is a cheap HP laptop from like 2006 or 2007, but its been long dead, missing power cord, and dead HDD with a non-standard SATA connection that doesn't work with regular SATA power/data cables. I want to say it was an AMD Turion and maybe an Nvidia 7150 integrated graphics? Outside of that, don't have anything running that is older than 2014. Do have all the parts still to my X58 system, might also have some LGA1156 stuff too, can't remember if I got rid of that or not. I definitely don't have my E8500 system anymore.