Loop corrosion help / advice

ChrisLandin

ChrisLandin

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Hiya guys,

Ive had my loop built now for near enough a year and today ive just gone to fit some new led rad fans to brighten up the inside of my sace ( you know to pimp it out a bit ) and to my horror my cpu loop tubing has like a coppery colour liquid running through it!! Not good!!

So ive done a bit of checking and both my rads are copper, im passing the water through an asus fusion block on my 790i and i was wondering if this might be aluminium?? Any ideas? I also have a kill coil in the loop would that cause any problems? The fluid i used was distilled water so im pretty sure thats not the issue and I flushed out my rads on install.

Anyone got any pointers?

At the moment my cpu temps are still fine but im concerned that this gunk is gonna start bunging up my cpu block and the inside of my dual loop xspc res just looks plain daft. One side is crystal clear the other is this murky orange liquid.

HELP!!!
 
Its that mobo block i had same problem. Just got a new board instead. If you take it off the loop it gets to hot when clocking.

Great board just a shame about the block. I was going to cut mine out and get a new block but to much messing.
 
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Not 100% to be honest but the gunk started forming on the clear tubing where the block was and when i swapped boards i never had the problem again.
 
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From the photo I've found it looks like it's die cast aluminium that's then been copper plated. :(
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Thanks for that.

Whats my options then? Looking at the top of the block there seems to be 2 very small screws. I wonder if it could be removed and a new block attached?
 
I think mine started doing it after a year and i left it a few months the loop looked a mess.

Get a asus p5q pro and some ddr2 for 60quid and sell that board. Will only lose 20quid at the most.

That's what i did. But was a few year ago now.

Had some nice patriot vipers 2000mhz on my board paid a fortune for the ram as well as ddr3 had only just come out then.
 
Going to be a major pain to replace it I think as you'll likely need to remove the whole lot meaning you'll need a mosfet block/s, NB block and a SB block or if you can find one, a complete MB waterblock from someone like EK.

Doubt you'll get a direct replacement of the Fusion block itself allowing you to keep everything else, but I might be wrong.
 
You can take the block off but its connected to all the heat pipes you can't split it without cutting the pipes.That was my plan at first. then i thought its not going to be worth as much when i sell as they were still worth a good bit back then . If you want to keep it cut it up and get a mcw 20 or what ever its called.
 
Hmmm, seems like a lot of a chew on here, I wonder what would happen if I just moved it out of the loop totally.

Is there a app to let me monitor my nb temp?

Ive just done a quick google of full mobo blocks and the bitspower one looks amazing but the price is out of this world. Im not spending that sort of cash on older tech
 
When i took my mobo block out of the loop the NB was hot as hell so i had to down clock. Honestly i know that its a good board and so easy to clock on but its so much messing been there done that mate and the end result will be you are going to get a new board.

If you sold your ram chip and mobo you could get a sandy bridge for a few quid more. Them boards are still worth a bit and the cpu is the best 775 chip so its still worth a bit. Ram is ten a penny now
 
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Isn't there a fluid available for mixed metals loops?

I was sure I saw something but I'm at work now so can't look right now.
 
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