Arctic Freezer - leaking

killer_uk

killer_uk

killer_uk

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Hi, I have an Arctic freezer 7 pro on my conroe. I opened up the case today to find some kind of clear liquid on the motherboard and graphics card. The liquid is splattered in line with the fan which leads me to believe its oil from the fan bearings.

I am going to be emailing artic cooling tonight and see if they can send me a replacement fan. My questions to you are:

A) Has anyone ever had dealings with artic cooling and their RMA process? And is it definetely likely to be the fan? If so I will request a fan only.

B) Would this liquid (oil?) do any damage in the short/long term. The computer is running fine now, which obviously means the liquid is non conductive.

Basically just need someone to tell me everythings going to be fine. :)
 
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it will be the fan oil i think, so your rig will be fine.

The fan will need to be replaced though as if all the oil is gone it will stop working and get noisy
 
Thanks for the reply, much appreciated. I have sent artic cooling an email to see if I can just get a new fan, as I really can't be bothered to take off the whole heatsink and send it back! :)
 
This problem came up a few times a number of months ago. However I have heard anything since so I can assume their RMA response is satisfactory.

SiriusB
 
Well just an update, I wanted to get a new fan only from Arctic cooling so I don't have to take off my heatsink as well in order for OcUK to do the RMA.

I've now sent 4 emails to them and not one has been answered. Terrible customer service from Arctic cooling :mad:
 
killer_uk said:
Hi, I have an Arctic freezer 7 pro on my conroe. I opened up the case today to find some kind of clear liquid on the motherboard and graphics card. The liquid is splattered in line with the fan which leads me to believe its oil from the fan bearings.

I am going to be emailing artic cooling tonight and see if they can send me a replacement fan. My questions to you are:

A) Has anyone ever had dealings with artic cooling and their RMA process? And is it definetely likely to be the fan? If so I will request a fan only.

B) Would this liquid (oil?) do any damage in the short/long term. The computer is running fine now, which obviously means the liquid is non conductive.

Basically just need someone to tell me everythings going to be fine. :)
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Should be fine! :D
 
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