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    Exos Water Cooling Anybody?

    All,
    I don't see much mention of watercooling on hexus but I thought I'd ask if anybody here is using any of the Koolance Exos watercoolers to cool their C2D processors?
    I've acquired one which is due to arrive next week, just wondering about tubing/cpu block etc to use with it. Fairly sure I'll just cool the CPU with it, the reserator I have just can't hack an overclocked E6600.

    cheers

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    Re: Exos Water Cooling Anybody?

    Be aware that the Exos' radiator is made of aluminium so you will need to use the right cooling liquid unless you use a aluminium cooling blocks (quite unlikely). For a cooling block Swiftech Apogee GTX is a good choice, 3/8" tubing should be fine.

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    Re: Exos Water Cooling Anybody?

    Interesting, I've had a look at the swiftech block, it's part aluminium part copper

    Swiftech Apogee GTX Extreme Performance CPU Waterblock Rev.2 |Specialtech.co.uk -

    I presume I'd still need some specialist liquid with this block, such as this?

    Tec-Protect-UV blue 1 Litre - Ready for use (17314) |Specialtech.co.uk -


    Thanks for the tip off on the aluminium, hopefully I'll be able to run it corrosion free now

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    Re: Exos Water Cooling Anybody?

    I was actually thinking of not Extreme block which has an Acetal top so stops the whole corrosion issue for the block but with an Alu Rad it would still be a problem obviously. The EXOS should come with some fluid if its new which would probably be your best bet, just don't use what most people would suggest which is distilled water and a bit of Iodine to stop algae growing.

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