alternative to XSPC D5 Dual Bay Reservoir V2?

xXxsephirothxXx · 24 Aug 2013 at 15:05

hi,
My XSPC D5 Dual Bay Reservoir V2 sprung a leak couple days ago after only a couple months use... So i was thinking of not getting a second one and was wondering what you guys suggest?

It doesnt have to be a bay res, a tube res will be fine but but sure what else i would need if i went for tube res using a D5 pump.

cheers

khemist · 24 Aug 2013 at 16:30

What do you think of these?.

xXxsephirothxXx · 24 Aug 2013 at 20:28

I got to say they do look very nice indeed. Build quality seems a lot better than the xspc reservoirs. The glue that held the backplate to the rest of the reservoir failed and warped the plastic, leaking coolant over my hard drives.

xXxsephirothxXx · 24 Aug 2013 at 23:38

Well ty for showing me the res, I have ordered a green monsoon premium res. Lets hope it lasts a bit longer this time round

Tonester0011 · 24 Aug 2013 at 23:42

What kind of coolant temperature were you getting? Bay/pump reservoirs are decent but have an increased fail-rate the higher the coolant temp compared to tube reservoirs.

Kobi · 25 Aug 2013 at 08:20

hmm strange, my dual bay has sprung a very slow leak too after a few months use.

xXxsephirothxXx · 25 Aug 2013 at 09:41

im not sure what coolant temps i was getting but pretty sure it wasn't that hot. my 2 gpus stayed under 55c and my cpu in the low 60's.

kobi i will load up a pic if the failed res in a bit

xXxsephirothxXx · 25 Aug 2013 at 09:54

as you can see, the glue failed at the top there leaking coolant

Tonester0011 · 25 Aug 2013 at 10:34

Might want to resize that picture - http://imageshack.us/

I've got the same pump/res combo, mines a lot older though

The glue really starts to fail when its put under a lot of heat for a prolonged period, i'm not saying that's what's happened as your temps wouldn't mean a very high coolant temp but it certainly looks that way from the picture

xXxsephirothxXx · 25 Aug 2013 at 11:47

Tonester0011 said:
The glue really starts to fail when its put under a lot of heat for a prolonged period

hmm strange that it happened, well just ordered extra 240mm rad just it case it was to do with my coolant temps to be on the safe side.

Krowzer · 25 Aug 2013 at 12:25

xXxsephirothxXx said:
hmm strange that it happened, well just ordered extra 240mm rad just it case it was to do with my coolant temps to be on the safe side.

It's a known fault with them, mine is currently bending but not leaking so it is getting replaced with the Moonsoon D5 Bay Res.

Shadow-King · 28 Aug 2013 at 20:54

xXxsephirothxXx said:
Well ty for showing me the res, I have ordered a green monsoon premium res. Lets hope it lasts a bit longer this time round

Where did you order from? PM me please if you cant openly say on here.

ibpalle · 30 Aug 2013 at 01:06

Must say that Monsoon reservoir looks sweet. Typical american overengineering bling but I am tempted to replace my xspc with that one.

Bill_W · 15 Oct 2013 at 18:29

xXxsephirothxXx said:
as you can see, the glue failed at the top there leaking coolant

Sorry, but you are mistaken. That is not a V2 reservoir. It's a V1.

The bow in the top at the back is right where the screw in the V2 would have been located.

The good news for you is XSPC will replace that for you if you contact them within their warranty period.

http://www.xs-pc.com/d5-dual-bay-reservoir-safety-notice/

Avenged7Fold · 16 Oct 2013 at 01:09

That monsoon reservoir looks really nice but i bet they will be very expensive

If it were by bitspower, id expect to sell my whole PC to be able to afford a D5 and the reservoir with a colour kit.

scotsdragon · 16 Oct 2013 at 19:56

Other sites including monsoons own sell those res's for 97-98 pounds plus about 10 p&p so they are not cheap

Bart_Hunt · 18 Oct 2013 at 05:18

OCuk have some nice tube res'es from XSPC, Photons. They look solid, include white led and can mount a D5 on the bottom, which is very nice. They come in 2 sizes as well, 170 and 270mm.
I am getting 2 170s for my build soon.

Emjay86 · 18 Oct 2013 at 07:09

scotsdragon said:
Other sites including monsoons own sell those res's for 97-98 pounds plus about 10 p&p so they are not cheap

Since when do people go for cheap when watercooling is concerned? Oximoron?!

scotsdragon · 18 Oct 2013 at 11:34

Emjay86 said:
Since when do people go for cheap when watercooling is concerned? Oximoron?!

I know what you mean just putting the price out there

Bart_Hunt · 18 Oct 2013 at 11:42

Emjay, you dont want to know how much I'll have to pay for watercooling my project, lol.
Cheap is the last thing you could call that.