Zalman coolant

Salamndar · 09-22-2009, 08:01 AM

Greetings all,

A friend has a TT water cooling system ( Yuk

) Any way. He has been using it for a while now and wants to clean it, I recommended distilled water but we can't find PT-Nuke any where locally and he doesn't want to wait to order it online.

SO that leaves him with 2 options, either TT own coolant or Zalman coolant.

Has anyone tried the Zalman coolant before?

jim0ne · 09-22-2009, 08:19 AM

Your friend could use only distilled until the PT-Nuke gets delivery or use distilled water + silver. Any silver works (rings,earing, braclet) just make sure it doesnt fall into the loop and get eaten by your pump.

Salamndar · 09-22-2009, 08:29 AM

What about the Zalman as a coolant?

Iknow it is no where as good as water but I'm having a hard time talking to him about it.
Also he likes colored liqued in his loop!

Caoder · 09-22-2009, 09:11 AM

they wshould all be the same pretty much... probably very little noticable difference in temperature..

faster3200 · 09-22-2009, 09:25 AM

If he is running a TT loop he probably is running mixed metals and shouldn't use just distilled + silver. He also needs a corrosion inhibitor. My guess is that both the TT coolant and the Zalman coolant have that since both companies make mixed metal loops.

IIRC Tom's did a review on the coolants way back. Although I can't seem to find it and I am sure their methodology wasn't great.