Kayin
05-22-2010, 12:47 PM
Let me preface this with a bit of backhistory.
I grew up wanting to be a scientist. I tore EVERYTHING I could apart. I rebuilt a carburetor at the age of 5. Iron Man (or more properly Tony Stark) and Forge were two of my heroes. By the time I was 10, I was creating implements of war for our neighborhood battles that were completely lethal. Those were summarily taken away after puncturing a tire.
As I grew, I built more and more interesting devices. I built a Beowulf cluster in college. And used it to take over campus internet. My bike was a re-engineered masterpiece of function. So was my (French) horn. I fixed the tonal problems on a 300 dollar starter Yamaha trumpet. A few years back I devised a self-regulating watercooling loop. it ran off not a BigNG or anything, but the motherboard itself.
So I've been playing with chemistry and physics for a long time (took Physics 1 and 2 in high school, got hooked) and I've been trying to answer some major questions in the WC field. We have no "perfect coolant." Distilled is nonconductive, high thermal transfer but stuff grows in it. Antifreeze is safe on that front but has lower thermal conductivity.
I saw some stuff a year or so ago they were referring to as "nanofluid." Interested, I turned to Google. Turns out it was an alumina microparticle suspension. They put metal in water to raise its thermal conductivity. Without clogging blocks, pumps or what have you.
So why is this all important?
I assembled a silver particle nanofluid for PC watercooling using stuff I bought from Wal-Mart and a few chemicals. And it's completely bio-safe. You could drink the entire bottle and you might feel queasy, but it wouldn't harm you. Might make you have some lower GI upset, as some of the ingredients are used for that purpose specifically (among other uses.)
A bonus? Keep it out of the sun, and it's white coolant. Yeah, I broke that one too.
Where is this proof you say? Well I owe a pic or two, right?
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/kayin/Personal/Argentum/DSC02961.JPG
What's with the dark? Well, the white turns into the black in the presence of light. So, white coolant isn't completely solved yet. However, it's the black that's the real stunner. The black pigmentation is silver, bound in a surfactant in suspension. It's both bacteriostatic and biocidal. The only thing it's not is nonconductive.
I haven't put this in a loop for extended periods (preliminary tests show it just fine in one, btw) but that's going to not be a problem-there's two bottles of this stuff going to our own Editor-In-Chief for review.
If that wasn't enough, I've also created a PC watercooling fluid that you could detonation weld aluminum to copper and leave it in it, and it wouldn't corrode. It's also capable of being fluid in temps down to -84F. This stuff, however, isn't as safe as the nanofluid-so if you're interested in it, it'll kill you or your animals stone dead if you drink it. You are warned. The stuff is so hardcore it comes in aluminum bottles!!! This stuff, by the way, will be going to Trace to test when he tries to beat Bit-Tech at their own game in overclocking...
Argentum Solar (the nanofluid) and Argentum Subzero (the heavy-duty coolant) will be available for sale after Monday of next week, though if you want to wait till after the reviews, I certainly wouldn't mind. Solar comes in white, that decomposes to black in light. Once it's black, it's ready to go. Subzero will come in -10, -4-, -60 and -84 strengths. Get what you need, the chemicals that give it the chiller protection also can limit thermal transfer. At -84, that's no issue, but in a regular loop, it's a problem.
I'm headed back into my lab. I have other toys to create.
I grew up wanting to be a scientist. I tore EVERYTHING I could apart. I rebuilt a carburetor at the age of 5. Iron Man (or more properly Tony Stark) and Forge were two of my heroes. By the time I was 10, I was creating implements of war for our neighborhood battles that were completely lethal. Those were summarily taken away after puncturing a tire.
As I grew, I built more and more interesting devices. I built a Beowulf cluster in college. And used it to take over campus internet. My bike was a re-engineered masterpiece of function. So was my (French) horn. I fixed the tonal problems on a 300 dollar starter Yamaha trumpet. A few years back I devised a self-regulating watercooling loop. it ran off not a BigNG or anything, but the motherboard itself.
So I've been playing with chemistry and physics for a long time (took Physics 1 and 2 in high school, got hooked) and I've been trying to answer some major questions in the WC field. We have no "perfect coolant." Distilled is nonconductive, high thermal transfer but stuff grows in it. Antifreeze is safe on that front but has lower thermal conductivity.
I saw some stuff a year or so ago they were referring to as "nanofluid." Interested, I turned to Google. Turns out it was an alumina microparticle suspension. They put metal in water to raise its thermal conductivity. Without clogging blocks, pumps or what have you.
So why is this all important?
I assembled a silver particle nanofluid for PC watercooling using stuff I bought from Wal-Mart and a few chemicals. And it's completely bio-safe. You could drink the entire bottle and you might feel queasy, but it wouldn't harm you. Might make you have some lower GI upset, as some of the ingredients are used for that purpose specifically (among other uses.)
A bonus? Keep it out of the sun, and it's white coolant. Yeah, I broke that one too.
Where is this proof you say? Well I owe a pic or two, right?
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/kayin/Personal/Argentum/DSC02961.JPG
What's with the dark? Well, the white turns into the black in the presence of light. So, white coolant isn't completely solved yet. However, it's the black that's the real stunner. The black pigmentation is silver, bound in a surfactant in suspension. It's both bacteriostatic and biocidal. The only thing it's not is nonconductive.
I haven't put this in a loop for extended periods (preliminary tests show it just fine in one, btw) but that's going to not be a problem-there's two bottles of this stuff going to our own Editor-In-Chief for review.
If that wasn't enough, I've also created a PC watercooling fluid that you could detonation weld aluminum to copper and leave it in it, and it wouldn't corrode. It's also capable of being fluid in temps down to -84F. This stuff, however, isn't as safe as the nanofluid-so if you're interested in it, it'll kill you or your animals stone dead if you drink it. You are warned. The stuff is so hardcore it comes in aluminum bottles!!! This stuff, by the way, will be going to Trace to test when he tries to beat Bit-Tech at their own game in overclocking...
Argentum Solar (the nanofluid) and Argentum Subzero (the heavy-duty coolant) will be available for sale after Monday of next week, though if you want to wait till after the reviews, I certainly wouldn't mind. Solar comes in white, that decomposes to black in light. Once it's black, it's ready to go. Subzero will come in -10, -4-, -60 and -84 strengths. Get what you need, the chemicals that give it the chiller protection also can limit thermal transfer. At -84, that's no issue, but in a regular loop, it's a problem.
I'm headed back into my lab. I have other toys to create.