[spawningvat]

Ladies and Gentlemen;
I'm in a predictament: I changed the fluid in my cooling loop to a windshield washing fluid w/ rainx because i was looking for a new color and this bright orange liquid caught my eye. My temps worsened about 4* bringing me to 38*c. I was wondering if the rainx additive is a surfactant? Would it be interfereing with the efficieny of my loop? If yes, how would you go about cleaning it? Should i just empty it and refill with generic blue windshield wwashing fluid or should i run a cleaner through it for awhile?

Also, of the 2 90mm fans i have pulling air through my core, i volt modded the remaining 12v one to 7v, so now i have 2 90mm fans both at 7v. Would this have that much of an impact on my cooling? I just finished soldering the wires and its a pain to drag everything downstairs, take apart the molex connectors, heat up the soldering iron, waste more heatshrink tubing, etc.

so whats up? is it my fluid or my fan that is causing the temp increase.

Thanks in advance.

/s/ Sean w/ his 1700xp @ 2004mhz 1.6v
cooled by liquid, through a custom setup of a dtek tc-4, 6x8" heatercore, danner mag 3 sealed and all, connected by 1/2" tubing

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