Help! Corsair H50 - white discolouration on pump

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I have had the H50 for about 4 weeks now. Getting reasonable temps on an i975 at stock. Cores are 33 to 40 idle depending on ambient and have never seen them go over 60 when gaming. Today I noticed the side of the pump is slightly discoloured. It's almost a mildew effect. It covers about 1/8 of the surface area. Could this be caused by condensation as the room was pretty cold last night/this morning. Temps seem normal and I have detected no leaks. Pump is not making any unusal noises.
 
Thanks. Nah..I'll leave it..was wondering if this could be a potential issue is all or if anyone had heard of such a think. No idea about what all those comments about low fat and high fat are about.

However the white marks were not there a couple of weeks ago which was got me worried about it.
 
If you have ever had a fishtank then you will know that algy can build up over the tubing. Just keep that algy at bay or it will be growing all over your motherboard lol :)
 
ScottMC7000 said:
If you have ever had a fishtank then you will know that algy can build up over the tubing. Just keep that algy at bay or it will be growing all over your motherboard lol :)
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Yes, and in that case the algae has a light source and is under the water.

In this case the most likely explanation is either something was left on the casing during manufacturing or installation and now it's heated up it's evaporated/dried out/oxidised etc. and changed colour. Or it's leaking. You certainly want to monitor it in either case. A leak can theoretically take out the rest of the system, so listen out for gurgling or other noises that might indicate there is air in the system, and keep an eye on system temperatures.

It is probably nothing though.
 
Thanks mate. Yeah I reckon it's nothing, at least it's not leaking. It did make a gurgle the 1st couple times I powered the system up some weeks ago but nothing since. And it did take me a couple of go's to get it installed with the stock thermal paste so I was expecting the worst. However the pump is operating within specs (around 1400rpm according to corsair), and while the room the pc is in, is warm I think the temps are ok..according to realtemp - 2 cores idle at around 32, the other at 35, and the last at 38. This is at stock 3.33ghz with turbo mode on around 3.5ghz. I only stress the cpu when gaming and mid 50's is all I have seen. System temps dont pass 37 according to Asus AISuite. I am doing a push/pull configuration with the 2 akasa apache pwm fans exhausting at around 1100 rpm most of the time. I could reverse them and use them as intakes as Corsair recommend to see if it makes a difference. Not sure it will though as I have a front 200mm intake and the optional side 200mm intake, so not sure if the air being sucked in and circulated would be much warmer than what I could pull in using the rear fans as intakes as Corsair recommend. Also the only outtake is the top 200mm fan.
 
Heres an idea. Thermal paste residue from when you put the Thermal paste on,seated the cooler head on the cpu and even after cleaning your hands some of the paste residue has gone from your hands to the cooler when youve handled it. The pastes had ample time on a warmish surface and is now showing on the black housing?
 
I used the stock paste preapplied to the base of the heatsink. Although I had to take it on and off a few times as I couldn't get it to sit in place. But you could be right, maybe some got onto the side.

I will be reversing the airflow tommorrow so the h50 intakes instead of outtakes and will examine the pump in more detail. As it happens I bought a spare just in case. So worst case I can attach this.
 
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