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Application:

Water Cooling Fluid

Provided by:

integrityPC

Available at:

IntegrityPC

MSRP:

$39.99 for UV, $29.99 for Non-UV

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

August 3rd, 2006

 

 

 

FluidXP Extreme Coolant

     For years now, we have been making our own cooling liquid concoctions.  Through trial and error some pretty good mixtures of distilled water, anti-freeze and water wetter have arisen.  I mean we do the best we can, it's not like we're NASA scientist or something.  FluidXP was designed to take all of the guess work out of mixing various fluids and to make a cooling fluid better than what the average Joe can make.  It was even invented by a retired NASA scientist.

     IntegrityPC sent us over a couple of bottles to test out.  The labels sum up the positive aspects of the product quite well.  It's Non-Conductive, Non-Toxic, Non-Corrosive, Bio-degradable and comes in UV colors.

Under a black light the Alien green gives off an eerie glow.

Installing

     I completely drained and flushed the old liquid from the water cooler, then filled the cooler with the bottle of FluidXP.  I was a little excited to see the water glowing in the computer.

     I was a little disappointed with the results.  I think my tubing is blocking the UV.  You can clearly see the bottle glowing, but my computer shows nothing.

Testing

     I'm using the Corsair Nautilus 500 to test the FluidXP Extreme liquid.  I'll be comparing it against a mixture of Corsairs "Cool" and distilled water.  If you didn't know, the mysterious green liquid that makes up Corsairs Cool is just antifreeze (propylene glycol 94-96%, water 3%, proprietary additives 1-3%).  The test system is:

Motherboard Asus P5WD2 Premium
CPU P4 640 LGA775
Video ATI X800XT
Memory 2GB PC2-8000 Platinum Edition XTC
Power Supply AeroCool ZerodBA 620w
Storage 400GB Seagate HDD
Optical Lite-On 16X DVD+/-RW +DL
OS Windows XP SP2

Results

Default speed and default voltage
Cooling Idle Load
Corsair 33 43
FluidXP Extreme 33 43
Overclocked 4GHz, Voltage 1.4V
Corsair 35 46
FluidXP Extreme 35 45

Conclusion

     While we didn't see a huge performance boost, the FluidXP still performs as well or slightly better than the Corsair mixture.  In my opinion, the selling point on this stuff is the safety.  Everything added to FluidXP is approved by the FDA as safe food based ingredients.  You can spill a little of this on the floor and not worry about your cat licking it and dying.

Club Overclocker Rating

Innovation:

10 out of 10

Performance:

9.0 out of 10

Quality:

9.5 out of 10

Stability:

9.0 out of 10

Overclocking:

N/A

Software/Drivers Pack:

N/A

Value:

8.0 out of 10

Overall Rating 9.0

Skill Level

Project Skill Level
(10 being hardest)

1 out of 10