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Last week I decided to top the watercooling tank back up to the 3 quarter level again.

Today I've noticed its already down to the half way mark.

Is it normal in hot weather for these levels to drop faster than usual?

I've had a brief look inside the case and can't find any obvious water outside the loop.

Just seems odd. It took a few months for it to get to half way last time. Now it seems to have taken a week.
 
Its depends on how big you res is, how much water you have in your loop, how big your loop is, what tubing you are using, what temp is your system running.
 
I bought the Nebula system from OC.

I think I might have found a leak in dripping from this block. Here is a picture from that page: https://img.overclockers.co.uk/media/image/thumbnail/FS457OE_105283_800x800.jpg

On that picture in the bottom left corner were the pipes go in, (sorry I'm not sure what that unit is called?) there is either a leak from a pipe connection, or there is a leak from the unit, as there seems to be a drip dripping on the case floor.

I'm going to investigate more tomorrow.

I like OC and were they come from, I always buy from fellow computer people right back to my days of buying a C64. But I have to say this is the most problems I've had with any computer :(

I'm a disabled guy so getting down on the floor and looking inside the PC takes a lot of effort. I even have to have help to lift the machine up.
 
I'm sure OCUK will sort that out for you under warranty but for reference, that's the graphics card - or specifically, the water-cooling block that's installed on the graphics card to keep it cool.
 
Ok I've sent them a webnote. I did try and investigate this morning as I had to top the liquid again. I noticed there is a drip coming from the bottom of the water-cooling block. If I put my finger were the drip is liquid appears on my finger.
 
I would keep the system powered down for now bud, the water might be creeping down behind the block and could short something.

If the water is dripping out of one of the fittings on the block, try giving it a little turn clockwise, it may just be a little loose.
 
Hi BluD,

Ok I will power it down.

Is there any screws underneath the water cooling block? I wasn't able to have a full look at it.
 
The metal fittings where the tubes connect screw into the block. If they are loose, water could leak out. BluD is suggesting you see whether they need tightening (hand tight only) if that is where the leak is coming from. If the block itself is leaking, you'd definitely want OCUK to fix it.
 
Topped my Res up about a fortnight ago to eliminate the trickling/gurgle from it dropping the level slightly.

Need to top it up again as it's started to give the trickle sound again,must be the weather.
 
Sounds a bit dodgey Barney, i've never had to keep topping up a closed loop like that, i would suggest you check that all the air as been bled out. Sometimes if ya dont bleed it properly it slowely makes it way back into the res in small bubbles making you think the water level is dropping.

If its been well bled check it for a leak.
 
I checked the screws on the water block, they seem dry. So the only liquid is coming from the under side of the water block. I left OCUK a webnote so hopefully they can fix it.
 
From the picture both 'in' and 'out' connections are on the top. This means that in the same place but on the bottom, there will be two blanking plugs (or stop plugs) which will be just silver discs. These block the holes where you could have the coolant going in or or from the bottom. If one of those is loose it could leak from the bottom
If it isn't there, the block needs changing under warranty.
 
Hi Cenedd,

When I was checking the block before feeling underneath there wasnt any silver discs.. it was smooth and just this drip come on my finger.

I got a reply back from OCUK guy and I don't think he's understood what I'm saying.

I won't print the guys name but this is what he replied.

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As long as there is no internal leak where the fluid is escaping it could just be that the radiators are now full rather than being half full if the reservoir was near empty.

I don't know the exact numbers for that PC but I am fairly sure it holds close to 4 litres of fluid when its completely full so as I said, as long as the loop isnt leaking just re top up and you should be fine from there.
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So what should I make of this? Shall I give OCUK a call?
 
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I'd give them a call. A leak is a leak and 4 litres is an awful lot of coolant for a system. It's normally more like 1 litre.

These are what I meant by silver disks - they could have course be painted/anodised in black or some other colour:
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My connectors are 'in' at the top and 'out' at the bottom so I have one blanking plug at the top and one at the bottom. You, by the looks of it, will have two blanks at the bottom and both fittings at the top. The blank just plugs the hole which goes straight through the block so you can attach a fitting either top or bottom.
 
Ok, if you have one of those it's because you have two graphics cards. You want to be very sure that if it's the top card leaking, that it hasn't leaked onto/into the bottom card.
Those terminals replace the black part you can see in my picture so there is a seal between that acrylic block and the block on each card. That could be leaking or it could be any of the places where a fitting connects. If all the fittings that are screwed into the block (and the blanking plugs) are hand-tight and the screws that attach the block to the card then it could be that a seal has failed and OCUK can replace that under warranty - you're just trying to eliminate the easy-to-fix problems rather than repair the fault here.

Looking at the pictures, it seems to be the dual parallel block you have so it'll have a single blanking plug on the right hand side from what I can tell.
 
I suspect they'll want to see close-ups of liquid dripping out of stuff if that's even possible - not easy at the best of times, I know.
 
I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to do that as the drip happens, or I put my finger under the block and the a drip is there.

I still don't really understand how it can lose nearly half a water tank of liquid in 5 days.. When the PC came to me with the liquid already done, it didn't go down that fast.

I think when I'm feeling a bit better at some point in the future I'll have to watch someone build and explain watercooling. I'm a bit of a slow learner of new things but when I get it figured in my own mind I'm good.

I still have my old win7 pc, upgraded to win10 sat here with a big air fan inside going strong. I wish I knew as much about water cooling as air cooling. This is a blank knowledge area for me :(
 
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