General Resvoiror Q

Harrybololxd · 23 Nov 2011 at 18:55

Hey

After reading up about watercooling for so many months i've come a number of incidents where the Acrylic cracks in the res.

I was wondering how's the build quality/acrylic of the XSPC bay res's? prone to cracks?

I'm slightly forced to buy into a bay res to mount a D5 in it due to small amount of room and found that the XSPC is more in my price range and I won't be having a second loop so no need for the Koolance.

Thanks.

s7cn · 23 Nov 2011 at 19:03

I have a XSPC pump/res combo and it's perfectly intact. It's only prone to cracks if it is overtightened. Buy in peace!

Edit: Had for about a year.

koooowweeee · 23 Nov 2011 at 19:11

There is only a few cases were its happened.

You would be unlucky for at to happen to you.

Its the same with anything you can buy it can break

s7cn · 23 Nov 2011 at 19:13

koooowweeee said:
There is only a few cases were its happened.

You would be unlucky for at to happen to you.

Its the same with anything you can buy it can break

Yeah, too true. My friend was really unlucky ordered him a pump, res and some fans from different retailers and when we put it all together the pump blew after 5 mins, one of the fans didn't work and the res had a fracture in it lol

koooowweeee · 23 Nov 2011 at 19:40

s7cn said:
Yeah, too true. My friend was really unlucky ordered him a pump, res and some fans from different retailers and when we put it all together the pump blew after 5 mins, one of the fans didn't work and the res had a fracture in it lol

lol

did he give up? i would have done

s7cn · 23 Nov 2011 at 19:43

Haha, nah we got replacements and he's no longer a watercooling virgin ^_^

Harrybololxd · 23 Nov 2011 at 22:45

So cracks mostly appear down to over tightening? I guess i'll bite the bullet and pray mines fine.

s7cn · 23 Nov 2011 at 23:26

Harrybololxd said:
So cracks mostly appear down to over tightening? I guess i'll bite the bullet and pray mines fine.

Yes, unless you got a bad unit that did not pass quality inspections. But it's very unlikely and nothing worth worrying over.

Greboth · 24 Nov 2011 at 10:31

Not had experience with xspc res but the plastic res I have had that have cracked (as well as seeing others online that crack) it is a small crack that starts leaking small amounts at first so hopefully you will notice before any big leaks.

rjk · 24 Nov 2011 at 10:56

they will not crack.

the only plexi reservoirs that were prone to cracking were the primochill typhoons which were discontinued a long time ago