5 Myths about Watercooling that are WRONG!

Watercooling tends to have a lot of misinformation surrounding it... so let's debunk some of those myths today!

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[ZeusTheIrritable]

Interesting anecdote; Both my PS3 and my 360 spent about 30 hours at the bottom of a pool (don't ask), and me and a coworker were able to get them running again by disassembling them, dunking everything in alcohol and letting everything dry before reassembly. That was 11 years ago and both still work.

[thecaneater]

The biggest myth about watercooling: You got this, bro, it's not that expensive. It's easy, bro.

[ReivecS]

As a middle aged man with a kid and career, I moved away from water cooling and just invest in higher end air cooling options entirely because if something goes wrong I simply don't have the time to deal with water cooling anymore and I don't want my primary rig down for weeks because I can't find the time to properly fix something. For the same reason I also like larger cases so there is plenty of room to work inside the case.

[vish]

Watching Jay videos is literally like getting advice from a dad. It has such a warm tone to it with some excellent advice.

[LaubeQ]

"Putting water into your computer" sounds exactly like putting a "fire inside your house" but of course, nuance is important and the fire is in a chimney and the water is in tubes.

[Nate_]

Mistakes I've made watercooling over the years:
1. Forgetting to put a drain in my loop.
2. Putting a drain in my loop with a T junction that had a super crappy ball valve attached to it that would free spin 360 degrees on the handle part of the valve instead of just going 0 degrees for on and 90 for off. This was fine for years because I was always smart enough to put a cap in the open end of the ball valve before firing the pc up, until the one time I wasn't. The ball valve was at around 89 degrees instead of 90 and it resulted in something like putting your finger on a garden hose, sprayed coolant straight into my expensive PSU, which then shorted out and died.
3. Thinking I would be fine just diluting my loop of premix coolant with distilled water over and over to the point where it was probably 1/3 premix, 2/3 distilled water. Turns out the chemicals in premix are super important and they stop algae growth among other things. Clogged the loop with gross algae schmoo that made me replace 2 rads and my pump.
4. Used Corsair soft tubing. This stuff is garbage that will kink up super easily and impede flow in your loop. I hate recommending EK products now but their soft tubing is the best I have ever used.

I will never put distilled water in my loop again unless it is to be mixed at the appropriate ratio with a concentrate. Buy enough coolant to sustain your loop until fluid change time, it's worth it.

[CPurdiePlays]

I really appreciate channels like yours that try to give the viewer the confidence that they can do a task they thought was hard and beyond their skill level. I can't tell you how many videos I've watched to figure out how to fix my car, household appliance, or anything else. I've built computers for 24 years and have never touched water cooling until a few weeks ago when I installed an AIO in my system. Upgraded my AMD CPU and the air cooler just couldn't keep up. It was cheaper to get a 360mm AIO than a good air cooler. So thank you for being one of those channels that tries to boost confidence in people.

[MechaboyDos]

As a recovering Chemical Engineering major that did lots of heat exchanger design problems in school, I'd very much like to see inlet and outlet temperature probes on all the components in your water loop and in as many different configurations as possible. Especially interested in getting supply and return temps on as many different models of radiator as possible under differing load conditions.

[lexgso]

"Hell Yea" Let's see that loop order thing...

[zeroyum]

Dude, I have been watching you for many years and am glad that you are getting back to your roots. All this fanboy non-sense and manufacturer drama is not interesting to me at all. I love when you build custom water-cooled systems. All my computers are water cooled. I keep reusing and upgrading my water-cooling components. Some of the computers have had up to 5 or six different motherboards over the years. Please get back to your roots. THX IE: Custom built NZXT H440 case from 2015 with 6mm tempered acrylic door, gutted front drive area and made panels for PS basement, floor and side to mount pump/reservoir.

[lordmissingno]

I did a custom loop for the first time a few months ago, and hearing that a leak isn't necessarily instant system death is highly comforting. I feel like I knew that in the back of my head, but it's still nice to *hear* it. Also just glad for this channel prepping me for years before I tried a loop myself, turned out pretty great and I didn't forget to buy a single thing!

[russkubes]

20:42 Jay's humor when calling himself out for the way he said something is always funny. It was a long day, but this particular line about "or your fingers, well *and* your fingers" had me laughing out loud for a bit.

[FrederickBrier]

Based on a Jayz2cents video, I sucessully built my first custom loop with bending hard clear acrylic including CPU, GPU, VRMs, memory and 2 360 radiators. 2 years later it is still going strong. Thank Jayz!

[GTP]

Yes! Do a whole series on water cooling, please. We need updated information.

[XschultzieX]

I had no knowledge or experience in watercooling computers. This channel gave me the itch to customize my own PC loop, and I love it. When this thing is finally ready for an upgrade, I'll for sure water cool my next build as well. It is a great way to make a build completely your own.

[Funlu]

Just got a new case and added a new rad to my loop. No need to upgrade any parts, but I'm glad I got in and added new fluid and cleaned the blocks.. these barrow and barrowch fittings have held up just fine. Reusing parts is awesome

[adithefox]

I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE a video on that loop order deep dive on the Scientific aspects of how the order affects the temps of the fluids! Sounds like an amazing video!!!

[Teklien]

I’ve been doing custom loops in my personal rig for the last seven years and it started with your videos. I watched your videos over and over and over and finally decided to take the leap and do soft to me. I still do soft tubing, but like you, I’ve switched to the black tubing because of the plasticizer issue.

[UnknownProductions]

I will always use black EPDM rubber tube. I’ve been reusing the same sets of tube and just trimming for new builds since 2018. Same fittings just cleaned them. Saved me SO much money over the years when doing water cooling.

[Isaard]

Mixed metals and soft tubing loop with dual pumps, 360 and 120 mm rads, the fluid is an automotive antifreeze, de-ionized water and hy-per cool mix, I blast it every few months with an aquarium UV light to sterilize the fluid and kill any growth. It's been running almost 5 years - no corrosion, no growth or buildup, no fluid changes just keep it topped up. Your channel really got me started into PC liquid cooling, thanks Jay!