HELP! Major Water Cooling LEAK!

Clean your affected board with Isopropyl Alcohol Spray IPA 170 Code RE79L you can get it from popular high street electronics store and dry it for a couple days but i suggest for a week to be on the safe side.
 
Exactly why I don’t water cool.

As for the oil links ……………

Water cooling is brilliant on paper but when dealing with parts which don’t like liquid! Its not so great epically with expensive parts.

Firstly in most places in the world the ambient air temperature is fine for air cooling!

There is a few exceptions ofc but if the ambient air temp is hot enough for to cause damage under load firstly it will be uncomfortable secondly your caps on your non Wc parts would blow long before your loaded parts.

The other argument is higher OCs can be achieved but the £200 you will spend on a decent loop you can put into better parts instead.

The main argument is noise but trust me even the best pump is just as noisy or noisier as high quality fans.

Just remember you get what you pay for so ofc a £200 Wc system is going to better than your standard cooler. Spend half it on some decent heat sinks & fans & the difference will be tiny.

Insert WC fanboi smack here ……..
 
PwnDirect said:
Exactly why I don’t water cool....Insert WC fanboi smack here
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Totally agree. While watercooling looks awesome in magazines and builds done by people on these forums, in real life, with my own real money, its never going to happen. PC's give enough problems without shoving a load of plumbing in with the components.

If it does all break, you'll simply cry...hard and quite frankly I have other things to worry about as opposed to constantly fretting over and tweaking a W/C setup. Noise is irrelevant, as you can make an aircooled system just as quiet and its just as rewarding. Plus, the heatsinks/fans/case can always be re-used or sold in exactly the same way as w/c components. Watercooling does give you amazing overclocks and it is really interesting to see what people can do with it but...meh, I'm just boring, so I'll never go through with it, unless I win the lottery :)
 
PwnDirect said:
Exactly why I don’t water cool.

As for the oil links ……………

Water cooling is brilliant on paper but when dealing with parts which don’t like liquid! Its not so great epically with expensive parts.

Firstly in most places in the world the ambient air temperature is fine for air cooling!

There is a few exceptions ofc but if the ambient air temp is hot enough for to cause damage under load firstly it will be uncomfortable secondly your caps on your non Wc parts would blow long before your loaded parts.

The other argument is higher OCs can be achieved but the £200 you will spend on a decent loop you can put into better parts instead.

The main argument is noise but trust me even the best pump is just as noisy or noisier as high quality fans.

Just remember you get what you pay for so ofc a £200 Wc system is going to better than your standard cooler. Spend half it on some decent heat sinks & fans & the difference will be tiny.

Insert WC fanboi smack here ……..
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Kinda agree with most of your points but a silent rig is worth the expense of water cooling imo. Nowt better than having a high end graphics card completely silent and 45c under load playing Crysis. ;)
 
dmmacvicar said:
Let me know how you get on.. The same happened with my S2E and it went all over the place. If i had read up on the fusion block before installation i would never have used the crap fittings that Asus send out with the board. Luckily my pc was off so i managed to dry my components out. Everything bar my GTX280 survived :( I phoned OCUK once it happened but they didnt seem interested and basically said once i decided to use the Fusion block that i was taking things into my own hands. Pretty poor of them really considering i had given them £2000 a few days before hand :mad:

I think a warning should be sent out with these boards to let people know of dangers you are dealing with when using the Fusion block fittings. Especially when OCUK dont want to know about it when you have dead equipment because of it! Over £400 i have lost because of this. With a dead GTX280 & redundant EK waterblock. One thing is for sure i will not be purchasing my next GTX off OCUK
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What make is the gfx card? just send it back to the manufacturer for replacement. Assuming its got no visable water damage then i dont see the problem.

And let me get this straight... you used the water block that came with the board and it leaked, and ocuk didnt want to know? id be onto trading standards mate about that. They cant sell products that are unfit for purpose and refuse to refund.
 
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And you told them about the leak because :confused: :confused:
Simply remove any incriminating evidence and send back for replacement, it's practically impossible for them to prove how the component has failed, unless of course someone tells them :rolleyes:!!
 
Fibre_Optic said:
And you told them about the leak because :confused: :confused:
Simply remove any incriminating evidence and send back for replacement, it's practically impossible for them to prove how the component has failed, unless of course someone tells them :rolleyes:!!
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I basically phoned them for advice the second it happened. I only thing that has died is my BFG GTX280. It had dried it out for a couple of days and when i went to use it again it was not performing correct. Stuttery and low fps! 3 days later it completely died on me when doing a 3dMark test. Problem is i had added my own waterblock which in itself is killing the warranty :mad: Just annoys me that ive lost all this money for something that is not my fault and no one is willing to take responsibility for it. This is my first dealings with OCUK and i dare say probably my last. Very disappointed in them TBH
 
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tl;dr its not normally the block itself that leaks, its often where the connectors pinch the tubing and it means it seeps out onto the block (either the circle indent around the silver bit or just onto the block). This looks like it is the block but it isn't. If you were using something like Feser one you shouldn't have any dead hardware from the leaks, have seen this evidences by someone using a loop that leaked for at least 72 hours onto his card (while stress testing etc) and lef ta nice lot of dried residue but it was still working while it was leaking onto it.
Out of all I ahve read it is hardly ever the block, and you can RMA the board if it is idd cracked. use cable ties, or custom fittings for the board (the barbs/tubes/hose clips all suck)
 
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Ch3m1c4L said:
tl;dr its not normally the block itself that leaks, its often where the connectors pinch the tubing and it means it seeps out onto the block (either the circle indent around the silver bit or just onto the block). This looks like it is the block but it isn't. If you were using something like Feser one you shouldn't have any dead hardware from the leaks, have seen this evidences by someone using a loop that leaked for at least 72 hours onto his card (while stress testing etc) and lef ta nice lot of dried residue but it was still working while it was leaking onto it.
Out of all I ahve read it is hardly ever the block, and you can RMA the board if it is idd cracked. use cable ties, or custom fittings for the board (the barbs/tubes/hose clips all suck)
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Yeah its defo the fittings in my case anyway. The block itself is a fairly simple design which cant go wrong (Unless you add the asus fittings to it)
 
dmmacvicar said:
Just annoys me that ive lost all this money for something that is not my fault and no one is willing to take responsibility for it. This is my first dealings with OCUK and i dare say probably my last. Very disappointed in them TBH
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My EK waterblocks says in there warranty that they do not cover other components for damage
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What does your waterblock warranty say ???
 
chaparral said:
My EK waterblocks says in there warranty that they do not cover other components for damage
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What does your waterblock warranty say ???
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The EK waterblock was for my GTX280 which did not leak. The problem came from the stock Fusion block leaking onto my GTX280 which caused it to eventually fail. The warranty on my GTX280 is void due to me putting the waterblock onto the GTX.

If you read the whole topic you would realise this!!!!
 
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TechMeh said:
Hey All,

Couple a days ago i installed my water cooling kit, so tonight i added the NB to the loop, problem it leaked like mad, all over the motherboard, nearly inside the 9800GX2s.

Motherboard is the striker 2 extreme, problem is tho it was the actual block that was leaking, now im very unsure what to do, im kinda new to water cooling, and im scared like mad, im currently drying out the compaunuts,

im so depressed rightnow £1700 i spent

if the mobo is busted or the cards, can i RMA them? since the fusion block was leaking and not my tubing and clamps

any suggestions or ideas would be appricated

Thanks
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It has been a few years since I was into overclocking, but your components should be fine as long at the PSU wasn't plugged in. They can't short out if there is no electrical current flowing, so don't worry too much. Just make sure you dry them properly, I found using a compressed air cannister and a hair dryer worked well when I had leaks.

If the stock waterblock on the motherboard is leaking, then it is faulty end of story and it is your right to get a replacement/refund from the retailer.

Personally, I eventually found watercooling a waste of time for overclocking, it was a hassle to setup correctly and even decent quality Swiftech kit never gave me any significant overclocking gains over air cooling on any of the CPU's I tried it on. I gave up on WC in the end, and bought a Vapochill LS phase change system instead. Phase change has it's own set of problems, but at least when it worked, I got stunning overclocks out of my CPU's.
 
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