Basically, I bought the 240 EK kit LTX and it was great to setup really easy, temperatures initially seemed fine (I had forgot what they were at stock) I put my clock settings to what they were when I had my H100 and suddenly I'm seeing really odd temperatures. Jumping from 32 to 49 in a split second... I kept examining my loop but it was dull light. I waited till the next day and what I noticed was that my liquid was only flowing through around 10/20% of the actual EK SUPREME LTX block.
I fitted the Intel stock cooler that comes with the 3570K and I shockingly saw better idle temperatures and load temps... both OC and stock. So referring to the image below... I thought odd the water should be flowing through the middle as well but being yellow it was odd to see with your bare eyes.
What my block looked like before I removed it from the loop
After removing it I quickly browsed the laminated manual and saw a step to step guide to taking the block apart, I followed it without even noticing there was a warranty sticker, I just looked at the pretty pictures in the manual. Cleaned it under hot running water (the copper block) and dried it and made sure there was no debris, as I was cleaning it I found the sticker and sighed... carried on anyway and put it back together, as I have the amazing ability to thread hex bolts I ultimately stripped one but as I have done this numerous times I ended turning the bolt head into a flat head using a saw (madness).
it looked exactly how it looked from the first image.
So took it apart again and did everything again, thoroughly cleaned it and this time I only put the CPU block/res/pump into the loop and ran that to see if the pressure would do anything and this is what I got...
Exactly the same, I didn't contact EK until after I took it apart the first time at that point the guy said it looks like there is some fluid bypassing the seal as you can see the rest of the block is yellow... this was the case when I first put the kit together, so that suggests the seal was **** from the get go.
I just don't understand why the fluid refuses to flow through the middle of this block though? I've been running it for an hour or so just with the pump/res/block connected to my PSU on my floor and I haven't see any progress. So as far as I can tell the block was **** from the beginning and me dismantling it hasn't improved it in anyway.
Is there something that I am missing, have I done something wrong? Both seals look to be pressed against the perspex sufficiently to "seal" and the block definitely doesn't leak at all. I got so frustrated I was on the phone to OCUK sales department about to order a brand new block and to chuck this one since EK won't want to deal with it (Due to warranty voiding) but due to the fact the sales rep said it wouldn't make it by tomorrow I decided to give myself time to find another solution... so I came so close to ordering the HF Supreme Full Nickel one.
Or should I avoid EK and possibly try another brand? I don't want to sound harsh but if this is a sign the block was poorly constructed in the first place I don't really want to risk buying another block and finding out I have to RMA because its poorly constructed again.
If you think I should go for another block/brand can you please suggest something that will be compatible with the rest of the EK 240 LTX kit, thanks in advanced.
(The rest of the kit seems really high quality, really impressed with it just disappointed with this CPU block failing to perform what so ever.)
EDIT:
Oddly, the more I look at the block the less it looks like the liquid is leaking through to the flat part of the copper, it looks more like the reflection from the flash and the highly reflective copper than it actually being trapped there. The copper looks immaculate with my eyes, so it doesn't even look like it is bypassing the copper fins, it just decides it doesn't want to go through the middle.
I fitted the Intel stock cooler that comes with the 3570K and I shockingly saw better idle temperatures and load temps... both OC and stock. So referring to the image below... I thought odd the water should be flowing through the middle as well but being yellow it was odd to see with your bare eyes.
What my block looked like before I removed it from the loop
After removing it I quickly browsed the laminated manual and saw a step to step guide to taking the block apart, I followed it without even noticing there was a warranty sticker, I just looked at the pretty pictures in the manual. Cleaned it under hot running water (the copper block) and dried it and made sure there was no debris, as I was cleaning it I found the sticker and sighed... carried on anyway and put it back together, as I have the amazing ability to thread hex bolts I ultimately stripped one but as I have done this numerous times I ended turning the bolt head into a flat head using a saw (madness).
it looked exactly how it looked from the first image.
So took it apart again and did everything again, thoroughly cleaned it and this time I only put the CPU block/res/pump into the loop and ran that to see if the pressure would do anything and this is what I got...
Exactly the same, I didn't contact EK until after I took it apart the first time at that point the guy said it looks like there is some fluid bypassing the seal as you can see the rest of the block is yellow... this was the case when I first put the kit together, so that suggests the seal was **** from the get go.
I just don't understand why the fluid refuses to flow through the middle of this block though? I've been running it for an hour or so just with the pump/res/block connected to my PSU on my floor and I haven't see any progress. So as far as I can tell the block was **** from the beginning and me dismantling it hasn't improved it in anyway.
Is there something that I am missing, have I done something wrong? Both seals look to be pressed against the perspex sufficiently to "seal" and the block definitely doesn't leak at all. I got so frustrated I was on the phone to OCUK sales department about to order a brand new block and to chuck this one since EK won't want to deal with it (Due to warranty voiding) but due to the fact the sales rep said it wouldn't make it by tomorrow I decided to give myself time to find another solution... so I came so close to ordering the HF Supreme Full Nickel one.
Or should I avoid EK and possibly try another brand? I don't want to sound harsh but if this is a sign the block was poorly constructed in the first place I don't really want to risk buying another block and finding out I have to RMA because its poorly constructed again.
If you think I should go for another block/brand can you please suggest something that will be compatible with the rest of the EK 240 LTX kit, thanks in advanced.
(The rest of the kit seems really high quality, really impressed with it just disappointed with this CPU block failing to perform what so ever.)
EDIT:
Oddly, the more I look at the block the less it looks like the liquid is leaking through to the flat part of the copper, it looks more like the reflection from the flash and the highly reflective copper than it actually being trapped there. The copper looks immaculate with my eyes, so it doesn't even look like it is bypassing the copper fins, it just decides it doesn't want to go through the middle.
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