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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:
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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
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Default speed
and default voltage |
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Cooling |
Idle |
Load |
| Corsair |
33 |
43 |
| FluidXP
Extreme |
33 |
43 |
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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.

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Club
Overclocker Rating |
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Innovation: |
10
out of 10 |
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Performance: |
9.0 out of 10 |
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Quality: |
9.5
out of 10 |
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Stability: |
9.0 out of 10 |
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Overclocking: |
N/A |
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Software/Drivers Pack: |
N/A |
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Value: |
8.0 out of 10 |
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Overall Rating
9.0 |
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Skill Level |
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Project Skill Level
(10 being hardest) |
1
out of 10 |
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