Loop finished, only one leak so far, no disaster...

:p tbh being born there was one of the few times I'd actually been to Ponte! From down the road in Goole - Another **** hole tbh.
 
Thanks :)

What I need you to do is take the bowl of water out of the loop, link a bit of tubing between the inlet and outlet of the res, fill the res with water and bleed it like that, just so we can take an airlock out of the equation.

Edit: though the pump should be sucking which it doesn't appear that it is.
 
Looks like a pump fault then, explains the high temps anyhow.

One last request, can you take a close up pic of the red dial on the back of the pump?
 
I refer you to post #75 lol i had a slight feeling about why it was getting so hot, but the chances of two blocks not mounted right on two gpu's didn't seem right.

At least it's an easy fix, swap pumps and off you go. :D
 
There is still the issue of the dodgy stand off on the block. All things considered though, when I took it off this morning, the block itself had a nice square paste imprint on it, which suggests it was contacting ok.

I sure hope so....

Anyway, here is pic.

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I'm going to swap the 140 for an AX240 and a xspc desk stand. Rig that rad up outside the case. If everythings back together, and if I still get bad temps, I'm going back to air. Somethings just weren't meant to be!
 
Nooo, don't give up man, you'll never try it again if you do.

Stick with it, get it sorted and you'll be thankful in the end :)
 
The thing that is putting me off is the fact when I connected it up with the bad pump, the top card got hot very quickly, but the bottom card went up slowly.

Now, this could either be the dodgy stand off, or it could be the fact there was no coolant in the block, and it had all run into the bottom card. My worry is that I connect it all up, and the top card gets hot again. It went up just as quick as when the thermal came loose on the other one.

See my point?
 
Aren't them type of res pump combo a swine to bleed?, it looks to be pumping just fine in the first video, I suggest if you do RMA the res and pump is to try and get separate res and pump if possible.
 
If it all works when it comes back you will probably appreciate how wonderful water is all the more for having had problems! Are there any decent flow meters out there that don't restrict the system - could be a life saver?
 
For me, that pump is working, you can hear it and when you tip water in, it pumps it out and there is a difference in tone, it sounds noisy because there is air in there and it's not got water constantly, you should not run a D5 without water or if it's full of air, unfortunately the combo you picked is not a good combo as the pump is sitting in the back at a side angle and is harder to prime, the inlet to the D5 is in the middle and the outlet is usually on a side but with that res it's difficult to tell what is happening inside.

Can you take off the front aluminium cover to have a look inside the res?
 
Was the kit from OCUK? If so you'll probably get away with just sending the suspected faulty part back rather than everything provided you clear it with them first.

The pump is set at around speed 1, the lowest, nothing happens at all when you rotate it clockwise?
 
@ hyperst

I filled the res up with water, and turned it on, it emptied half the res, and then stopped, so turned it off. I filled up the res again, and turned it on, and none of the water in the hose circulated.

@ pgi

Yeah it's an OCUK kit. When I phoned them today, I asked if I could just bring the pump back, and he said no, because the order number was for a kit, so an RMA for that order number has to go against the kit as a whole.
When I turn it clockwise to 5, nothing happens. Infact, nothing has happened since I first got it, the pump doesn't get any noisier or quieter from one to five.

It's all boxed up now. I only live 30 mins from the showroom, so I'm driving up in the morning. It's quite handy living in the Midlands. I doubt I will do anything with it tomorrow, not going to touch it till I speak to EK about the block and if that one riser would potentially cause bad contact. It's the one thing making me iffy about putting the loop back together.
 
Anyway lads, time for a (possibly the most I have ever needed one) pint down the pub.

Thanks for your help, it's helped me breath a bit easier about the prospect of putting the kit back together again, knowing what the actual fault probably was. I'll post back on here when I get the kit back, and a response from EK.
 
No worries mate enjoy it and let us know how you get on at OcUK tomorrow, its likely if they have time that they will test it for you there and then :)
 
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That's the stand off that has come off. I still have three that fix it in place, so it should be ok, surely? As Murphy's law would have it though, it's one of the four closest to the GPU

I guess this is one of those things that only time will tell eh.

All the best mate, thanks :)
 
Yeah, it would half empty the res because the inlet to the pump is in the center of the pump and it must have primed correctly, upon the next fill it probably had an air lock which the water could not pass, that kind of res needs to be bleed really by have the pump back (the bit with the sticker) pointing down, meaning the case would be on it's back and you would need to figure out a connection to fill it from the side as the fill port would then be on it's side, if that makes any sense.

Can you still get the screw in to that hole ok? if so place the standoff in place (use a tiny amount of thermal paste to hold it) and you should be good.
 
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