First loop since q6600 days, advice welcome.

Webster

Webster

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Hey,

So I'm most of the way through building:

Ek mana g2 distro
Ek fittings
Ek velocity
Ek vector
2x Ek 360 rads
Hardline tubing

The hacksaw I bought was not optimal so I went and bought a dremel.

Everything is installed, I have a potential issue with the gpu block, I used screws too long (ignored the screw length guide that came with it) and snapped one of the mounting nuts on the gpu waterblock. Seems flush but won't know till filled and tested. Possibly need to replace..

All of the hardline tubes are cut, but 1/6 is too short by half a cm, so have ordered another set due in the 11th.

Has been a learning curve with the hardline tubing, cutting / filing / pushing into the fitting enough.

Any tips or advice welcome, it's definitely a long process.

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Webzta said:
Hey,

So I'm most of the way through building:

Ek mana g2 distro
Ek fittings
Ek velocity
Ek vector
2x Ek 360 rads
Hardline tubing

The hacksaw I bought was not optimal so I went and bought a dremel.

Everything is installed, I have a potential issue with the gpu block, I used screws too long (ignored the screw length guide that came with it) and snapped one of the mounting nuts on the gpu waterblock. Seems flush but won't know till filled and tested. Possibly need to replace..

All of the hardline tubes are cut, but 1/6 is too short by half a cm, so have ordered another set due in the 11th.

Has been a learning curve with the hardline tubing, cutting / filing / pushing into the fitting enough.

Any tips or advice welcome, it's definitely a long process.

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I'd run water through that that GPU block, off the GPU, for a really good amount of time. It does depend where the snapped part is, but without properly distributed, even pressure on the big rubber gasket/washer it could leak slowly from multiple places.

I wouldn't trust it anyhow.
 
My post was pretty disjointed, apologies.

I'm not worried it will leak, the part that snapped was one of the retention nuts/holes for the block onto the gpu core itself, so if anything it will be more the contact - it's either going to be enough or the temps will be ****.

I'll try finish off the tubing runs when the tubing arrives monday/tues and then leak test with the loop tester.

Worse case I will have to drain then buy a replacement gpu block & some more fluid.
 
Aaaah fair enough. In that case I hope pressure over the cores is good, I'd have been worried about tightening unevenly over the cores and crushing something myself. I'm clumsy!
 
Finished, but gpu only displays for about a minute then no display. if I run on integrated I can see the card in driver manager, but if I plug a display into it, it then shows with an error, if no display plugged in shows Ok.

Maybe an odd question but obviously I unplugged all the cables into gpu removing the stock cooler, do I need to replace those with anything or leave empty?

Weirdly I can't get the temps listed in windows for the gpu, think it's overheating then shutting off?

Pics to follow..
 
**Update, everything seems fine apart from GPU, which wasn't unexpected.

The new issue is the block was EOL, so I'm trying to find a replacement.... but it's not looking good at the moment.
 
Webzta said:
**Update, everything seems fine apart from GPU, which wasn't unexpected.

The new issue is the block was EOL, so I'm trying to find a replacement.... but it's not looking good at the moment.
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Put a wanted post in MM
Surprising what some of us hoarders
May have Laying around :cry:
 
Found an active backplate one I think is compatible, hopefully it's right.

I don't want to spend 1k on a 4080 + another few hundred on a block just before Xmas :D
 
Webzta said:
Found an active backplate one I think is compatible, hopefully it's right.

I don't want to spend 1k on a 4080 + another few hundred on a block just before Xmas :D
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Will depend on what you have
But would recommend taking a good look
At the motherboard
And check if an active backplate will hit anything
Recently installed 3080ti with active backplate
It hit the oled screen where top m2 drive is
Other boards probably a heatsink there
And it hit a heatsink further over
I literally hacksawed a bit of heatsink off
To make the ABP fit
Didn't even take the pc apart
Hacksawed it in situ :cry:
 
Webzta said:
Hopefully have enough space will check when arrives tomorrow

Just draining loop to check gpu now.
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Hopefully yours will go in easier
And not need to resort to the extremes I used
The other thing to check
Some Older / first version active backplate you had to go in/out
On certain ports
The newer ones aren't quite as fussy
I tried all 6 possible combinations
About 3 of them worked fine I think
But definitely worth checking the user manual
Just in case it says you have to do in/out
On specific ports
 
So I re-did the pads closest to gpu core with 1mm and put it all back together, re-filled loop, and i'm now posting using the GPU.

About to run heaven now.
 
GPU seems OK, temps are good, but the hotspot is very high. I have left the backplate off (Non active) - would this be the cause for that?
 
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