Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 14 Radiator Cleaning Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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so since my last personal rig update I have made exactly zero progress over
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here so I promised to show well I don't remember if I promised to do this but I
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should have promised to do this at some point cuz I was going to do it so I
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wanted to show you guys the procedure for cleaning out older radiators because
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as you guys know if you've been watching my personal rig updates my radiators are
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not new this is a black ice Pro 2 which is the first radiator I ever bought for
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my first water cooled rig and then this is a thermoil PA
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120.4 which is a bit of a rare item these days I think there's probably RADS
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that perform better but this is a good fit for the tj07 and uh yeah it's a great rad
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there's really no compelling reason to replace it there's been some talk about
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what fans's line is using I actually use two different kinds of fans in my rig
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I'm using GED Wings there they are GED Wings in all
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the places where they're visible so those are UV Blue fans and then on the
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radiator down in the bottom the pa1 120.4 I'm actually using Silverstone air
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penetrator 121s so those were one of the are are
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they 121s pretty sure they're 121s whatever
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the first directed airflow ones so those are UV Blue as well but you'll never see
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them because they're hiding in the bottom the reason I was using these ones
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is cuz they were the first um I got them back when they were the only uh directed
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airflow fans so I I rave on and on and on about the Noctua ff1 12s those are
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similar to these they're newer uh they're a little bit better but they're
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directed airf flow so you get like a Vortex of air that moves away from the
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fan like this so that it actually doesn't just kind of go all over the
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place the reason for that is in the basement of the
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tj07 here we go the white balance will be off over here but there's not really
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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
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tj07 what you're doing is you're pulling the air in here and then what you
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ultimately want it to do is go out the other side not just get sort of sorry
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out the other side not just get dispersed around there so that's why I went with those fans and then GED wings
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for the rest of it there you go there's the rest of the GED wings I I went with
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those because at the time of buying them uh GED wings were one of the only
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good-looking good performing fans that came in all the fan sizes that I needed
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so Noctua had fans but their 92mm fan was not an a pressure optimized fan it
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was an airf flow optimized fan it was with that really really um like highly
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angled uh whatever blade design that I
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really didn't like and didn't really believe in that
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much um all right so what am I doing here vinegar for one thing so a 10%
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vinegar and hot water mixture went into
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the loop now most people just flush the radiators by putting some some uh some
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water and vinegar inside them plugging them up shaking them up and then sort of
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doing sort of less more and more diluted until you're doing a couple flushes with
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distilled water in order to make sure they're all clean I knew mine were
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particularly gunked up you can actually see the water is blue so I left it here
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for about an hour actually running so I have a pump going here here's an ax850
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running the pump for me know something to watch out for guys is uh if you don't
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have quite as much Radiator in your test
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configuration uh the pump can actually heat up the water to the point where it
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can overheat so make sure that you actually turn one of one or two of the
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fans on just to make sure that it doesn't overdo it uh with 6 by 120 mm
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radiators though there's enough passive cooling that I didn't really have that issue so what I'm going to do now this
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is my 10% is I'm going to do a 5% I mean
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approximately 5% I don't know exactly how much water's in there but it doesn't
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really matter so I'm going to do a 5% mixture then I'm going to do two or
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three rounds of just distilled water to get the RADS as clean as I can so thank
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you for checking out this personal rig update where it's basically me yammering
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about nothing and then finally in the last couple of minutes telling you what
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I'm actually doing and once this is done I'll be ready to put the RADS back in
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the system which is one of the reasons why I haven't been able to install anything else cuz I need to Route all
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the power to my fans and I need to get those RADS in before I can put all the
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