A Noob's Experience with Water Cooling

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I recently took the plunge into water cooling (pun not intended) using the Alphacool/Cooler Master Eisberg as a starting point for a custom loop that I can expand into and beef up when cash allows (getting married in May).
I wanted it to be cheap but still look the business and perform better than my old air cooler (bequiet Dark Rock Pro), and I kinda got what I aimed for.

I also produced a video over the course of attempting water cooling for the first time.
I'm not the best on the mic, but I'm quite proud of the editing I've accomplished, as well as telling the tale of both;
-A noob's experience of water cooling
and
-The Eisberg is actually not the POS that people think it is.

I'm aware it's not the absolute lick, twin loop, 5 rads, bitspower showroom that I see on here, but I wanted it to look... clean.

Hope you like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLWt-X00q04
 
Always wondered how those things were filled. Doing it outside the case made much more sense.

Was the busted one not covered by warranty?

Looks good and nice vid.
 
Nah man, was my fault - No warranty if the closed loop kit is altered.
It's like taking the stock cooler off your GPU from new, you **** it up, you're out of pocket.

The spare assembly was less than half the price of the kit, so I wasn't totally destroyed by it :)

Cheers
 
I'd watch out as my eisberg started leaking onto my ram 3 days ago from one of the corners but i managed to catch it in time (was getting blue screens then the motherboard wouldnt go past checking the ram) but after drying it all out and fitting a air cooler everything works thank god.

It was over 1 year old and when i did a google search it seems to be a common problem which is scary.

I hope yours is a revised version and it doesn't leak.
 
Huntyz said:
I'd watch out as my eisberg started leaking onto my ram 3 days ago from one of the corners but i managed to catch it in time (was getting blue screens then the motherboard wouldnt go past checking the ram) but after drying it all out and fitting a air cooler everything works thank god.

It was over 1 year old and when i did a google search it seems to be a common problem which is scary.

I hope yours is a revised version and it doesn't leak.
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Oh right?
Man thats pretty unlucky.
It always looks like a common problem on the internet - people only report the bad stuff.

But I would imagine that a WC giant like alphacool would have revised it.
Was yours under the Cooler Master brand then? You said it was over a year old?
 
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