so since my last personal rig update I have made exactly zero progress over
here so I promised to show well I don't remember if I promised to do this but I
should have promised to do this at some point cuz I was going to do it so I
wanted to show you guys the procedure for cleaning out older radiators because
as you guys know if you've been watching my personal rig updates my radiators are
not new this is a black ice Pro 2 which is the first radiator I ever bought for
my first water cooled rig and then this is a thermoil PA
120.4 which is a bit of a rare item these days I think there's probably RADS
that perform better but this is a good fit for the tj07 and uh yeah it's a great rad
there's really no compelling reason to replace it there's been some talk about
what fans's line is using I actually use two different kinds of fans in my rig
I'm using GED Wings there they are GED Wings in all
the places where they're visible so those are UV Blue fans and then on the
radiator down in the bottom the pa1 120.4 I'm actually using Silverstone air
penetrator 121s so those were one of the are are
they 121s pretty sure they're 121s whatever
the first directed airflow ones so those are UV Blue as well but you'll never see
them because they're hiding in the bottom the reason I was using these ones
is cuz they were the first um I got them back when they were the only uh directed
airflow fans so I I rave on and on and on about the Noctua ff1 12s those are
similar to these they're newer uh they're a little bit better but they're
directed airf flow so you get like a Vortex of air that moves away from the
fan like this so that it actually doesn't just kind of go all over the
place the reason for that is in the basement of the
tj07 here we go the white balance will be off over here but there's not really
a whole lot I can do about that right now let's go ahead and give you guys some more light in the basement of the
tj07 what you're doing is you're pulling the air in here and then what you
ultimately want it to do is go out the other side not just get sort of sorry
out the other side not just get dispersed around there so that's why I went with those fans and then GED wings
for the rest of it there you go there's the rest of the GED wings I I went with
those because at the time of buying them uh GED wings were one of the only
good-looking good performing fans that came in all the fan sizes that I needed
so Noctua had fans but their 92mm fan was not an a pressure optimized fan it
was an airf flow optimized fan it was with that really really um like highly
angled uh whatever blade design that I
really didn't like and didn't really believe in that
much um all right so what am I doing here vinegar for one thing so a 10%
vinegar and hot water mixture went into
the loop now most people just flush the radiators by putting some some uh some
water and vinegar inside them plugging them up shaking them up and then sort of
doing sort of less more and more diluted until you're doing a couple flushes with
distilled water in order to make sure they're all clean I knew mine were
particularly gunked up you can actually see the water is blue so I left it here
for about an hour actually running so I have a pump going here here's an ax850
running the pump for me know something to watch out for guys is uh if you don't
have quite as much Radiator in your test
configuration uh the pump can actually heat up the water to the point where it
can overheat so make sure that you actually turn one of one or two of the
fans on just to make sure that it doesn't overdo it uh with 6 by 120 mm
radiators though there's enough passive cooling that I didn't really have that issue so what I'm going to do now this
is my 10% is I'm going to do a 5% I mean
approximately 5% I don't know exactly how much water's in there but it doesn't
really matter so I'm going to do a 5% mixture then I'm going to do two or
three rounds of just distilled water to get the RADS as clean as I can so thank
you for checking out this personal rig update where it's basically me yammering
about nothing and then finally in the last couple of minutes telling you what
I'm actually doing and once this is done I'll be ready to put the RADS back in
the system which is one of the reasons why I haven't been able to install anything else cuz I need to Route all
the power to my fans and I need to get those RADS in before I can put all the
front panel uh bay covers see the rigs
over there front panel Bay covers in and stuff like that so don't forget to subscribe cus detective for more
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