What kind of water to use in Titan?

Question

I just bought my Bitspower Titan water cooling pc case fopr my next build. I have never done water cooling before. What kind of water should I use? I heard that distilled water is best.

Additionally, how do you change the color? Is there something like iCue where you can choose your colors, or do you have to add coloring into the water?

Answer 1

You will want to use distilled water(or a premixed coolant if you're into that), preferably with additives like anti-corrosion and bacterial inhibitors, which arn't 100% necessary, just people in the custom cooling community recommend them heavily. Bitspower recommends not using them because they are unaware of the components and can't guarantee that it will not damage the system. If you do your research of the materials in your system and make sure the additives don't damage those components then you should be fine.

As for coloring your system, there is no color switch button for water, although the RGB lights will shine through it if that's what your wondering. You can change the RGB through whatever RGB software, I personally use AURA from Asus, but if you have everything else in iCue from Corsair then that might work. Or you would just have to use multiple programs for your lighting since companies don't like working together.
If you want to color the coolant itself using dyes made for custom loops should work. Just make sure it is made for systems and for the love of god, DO NOT USE FOOD COLORING! or any food grade dye for that matter. Just make sure its good for loops and do some research on mixing and things like that.