Liquid cooling?

[losermeetsworld]

I have a new liquid cooling system, and I installed it, works fine, and I put car coolant in it, and it idles at around 80 degrees F. Is that good? Better question... what liquid should I use for the most effective cooling?

 

[FictiousWill]

80F is very good. 80C is not so good.

 

[gweedodogg69]

Yea that' very good. Under load I pull around 86F which is 30C. I use the Koolance coolant that came with my Exos 2 and it works excellent. I'm reaching my 1 year mark in May and I'll have to change it sometime around then. I wonder if car coolant will work better. Is it straight coolant or a 50/50 mix?

 

[losermeetsworld]

50/50.

 

[rosseh]

Yea that' very good. Under load I pull around 86F which is 30C. I use the Koolance coolant that came with my Exos 2 and it works excellent. I'm reaching my 1 year mark in May and I'll have to change it sometime around then. I wonder if car coolant will work better. Is it straight coolant or a 50/50 mix?

I've seen mixed reviews about the Exos 2. How do you find it?

 

[gweedodogg69]

I purchased mine here http://xoxide.com/koolance-exos-2-black.html, but mine works great. If the reviews say anything about noise then yea it's semi loud. Not like tornado loud, but it sounds like 2 large fans spinning very fast when at max speed. But it's fairly quiet. I set it to full speed (10) when I'm gaming/using, and speed 5 when I go to sleep. I barely hear the fans from it, I only hear the 2 case fans I have in my PC and the water occasionally makin noise, but it's kinda soothing.

 

[gweedodogg69]

edit: sorry, didn't mean to double post.

 

[15357]

I purchased mine here http://xoxide.com/koolance-exos-2-black.html, but mine works great. If the reviews say anything about noise then yea it's semi loud. Not like tornado loud, but it sounds like 2 large fans spinning very fast when at max speed. But it's fairly quiet. I set it to full speed (10) when I'm gaming/using, and speed 5 when I go to sleep. I barely hear the fans from it, I only hear the 2 case fans I have in my PC and the water occasionally makin noise, but it's kinda soothing.

Why do you have the computer on when you're sleeping?

 

[gweedodogg69]

The question is...why don't you have your computer on why you sleep? jk.

I have it on cause I'm either downloading off newsgroups or just to leave my AIM message up and see if anyone says anything, I dunno. I turn it off when I leave for my classes, but turn it on when I get home. That and I've read reviews on PCs being like a lightbulb. The more you turn them on/off the shorter the life span.