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My name is SoMad and I have been a waterhead since 2007.

It can seem a bit intimidating at first, but once you get your feet wet ( Wink | ;) ), it's really just simple plumbing, not rocket science.

I started out with a Zalman Reserator XT[^] and I am still using it on my main system. I don't think they make that model any longer and it would be hard to recommend it since it had some shortcomings out of the box.
Over the years I have updated the internal pump to a more powerful model as well as replaced all the tubing and quick-release connectors in favor of better quality with larger diameter.

With the upgrades I have made to the cooling system, I run a single loop that cools the CPU, motherboard (chipset North Bridge + Voltage Regulator), graphics card (GPU + RAM) as well as my two 500GB WD (ABYS) drives. As you can tell, my computer is getting pretty old - the parts just wont die Big Grin | :-D .

The main thing I would recommend is to stay away from the fancy, colorful additives. For the last couple of years I have simply been using distilled water with a silver coil dropped into the reservoir and it just works.

I haven't looked at this stuff for quite some time, but here are a few (oldish) resources:
Overclock.net[^]
Martin's Liquid Lab/[^]
Skinnee Labs[^]

Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

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