Fun With Coolant and Motherboards

[Petra]

Okay, well, I've been extremely pressed for time today and am still frantically trying to get a bunch of stuff done before getting out of here... so I haven't had a chance to write up a blog entry or make a thread in our own forums about this or anything. Either way, I'm sure that you guys will find this little video amusing

I decided to have fun with a couple motherboards, some "non-conductive" PC coolant, and some distilled water--enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-yT7cvfo3o

Note: I still have yet to determine whether or not I managed to totally brick either of the boards (something that I'll check out on Monday or Tuesday).

*edit* Poll added--I figured that I should have some fun with this

*edit #2* Just so people don't have to go all the way to page two for the outcome:

As of right now, I can say that the CPU, RAM, and video card are all working fine...

The two motherboards, on the other hand, are both dead. The board that was drenched with distilled gives a second of fan spin or so and then dies while the other board does nothing at all when you hit the power button.

Perhaps I should use a little less coolant next time?

Anyway, let this be a lesson to all of you: don't pour coolants on your motherboard.

[DarthBeavis]

LOL . . .sweet. I must admit I just learned me something . . .I think I might just use DI and then additives for color . . .what do you think of Feser water dyes? Can I mix them with PT Nuke in DI?

[Cptn Vortex]

I like my Feser Black/UV blue dye. Doesnt take much to get it to look Deep Purple, but Black is tough. No gunk or anything either, although it will stain the tubes, like any additive.

[CCC]

LOL . . .sweet. I must admit I just learned me something . . .I think I might just use DI and then additives for color . . .what do you think of Feser water dyes? Can I mix them with PT Nuke in DI?

thats what ive been doing and nothing bad so far.. i took my EK supreme block apart after running distilled water/pt nuke/Feser UV dye and it was perfectly clean.. it was only running a few months but seems fine to me. as stated above the tubing was defiantely stained but no biggie

[DarthBeavis]

Stains . . .skid marks . . .just part of doing business . . .I can live with that . . .going to try it.

[iowamoe300]

That was very cool. And to think I was worried about spilling 1 drop of water on my board when I was filling my res....

[madmaxx]

thank you alex, more of these types of vids are needed

[jarvo1]

Cool video, when I did my loops being new to watercooling I just used Feser one, thinking it was safer but thats made me think a bit.
I did notice the second board didn't die until you poured water actually over and into the RAM slots!

p.s I also saw the "challenging the Feser conductivity test" and I have to say....pink lemonade FTW! lol

[skinnee]

nice...thanks!

Did anyone else laugh their arse off as Alex is just standing over the board dumping water and coolant all over it?

[aspire.comptech]

Poor abit boards...

I hope they survived.

[iowamoe300]

nice...thanks!

Did anyone else laugh their arse off as Alex is just standing over the board dumping water and coolant all over it?

I was on the verge of losing it. I was just waiting and hoping he would just turn the bottle of distilled upside down and hose the thing down!

[lokitexas]

Poor abit boards...

I hope they survived.

Kill them all...fire, water, pure hate rays of plasma death!
(Sorry Abit me mad )

[Anemone]

Thank you Loved that vid, visual proof is pretty plain before our eyes.

[biftek.]

You noticed even after the Dist. Water froze the system once, it came back and finished the the test then crashed...

[lokitexas]

You noticed even after the Dist. Water froze the system once, it came back and finished the the test then crashed...

Yeah...was making me laugh that he couldnt see the screen before the camera did

[Giannis86]

nice vid, quite interesting

[step]

Lets just hope people don't get careless after seeing this :P

[junkun13]

i use triple distilled water

[fungry]

Not a bad video at all. Good job to the people involved at Petra's. Would love to see any upcoming videos .

Just thought if they plan on to, would be nice if they could have a thread to their own which act as a compilation of all their videos .

[Voo Doo]

Nice video. Very interesting. Hope the boards are OK. I could sure use one .

[Arni]

info:
2 weeks ago Feser Black damage my old mobo .... :/

[Th3MadScientist]

Very informative, although I would of liked to have seen Alex spill some coolant on the video cards, for most of us if a leak does occur the first thing it's gonna hit is the video card. I would of also tried it on a board covered in dust and see how long it takes for it to die.

[Sadasius]

Awesome nice to see someone take this initiative to test that. Very informative! Thanks!

[Petra]

Very informative, although I would of liked to have seen Alex spill some coolant on the video cards...

I didn't douse the 6600GT because, well, I kinda need that card to keep working (didn't want to risk it)... the motherboards, on the other hand, were purchased specifically for this video.

[Kilyin]

You're extremely pressed for time, but you're making videos of yourself dumping coolant on motherboards while running 3dmark!

That's why I love this board.