Watercool disaster..

dancook

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Erosion set in with the silver coil which I removed some time ago. I didn't know how bad it had gotten..

Tonight my PSU blew, and at first I thought 7 year warranty it's fine.. But as I took the PC apart I saw the extent of corrosion, and the tubes in the radiator just popped off - I know that there must have been a leak that caused the PSU to die so spectacularly.

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Hopefully all hardware other than PSU is ok - Going to get a new case and just air cool...

It will mean having to put the stock cooler back on the Titan X Pascal.. sigh.
 
Jesus that’s some mess.

When was the last time you drained and cleaned your loop? Guessing that level of corrosion didn’t happen overnight.

Hopefully some parts have survived.
 
Maintain your loops kids!

That's got good, hopefully no further damage other than the psu. What coolant did you run? Are all the blocks matched metals?
 
Had it since 2017, used distilled water - nickel plated blocks and copper radiator - but silver coil reacts with nickel.

I added something to try and help at some point but never did a decent flush, and well it's been under my desk since.

I didn't appreciate the 'maintenance' part of water-cooling as it's something I wanted to setup once and forget.. well it's not for me!
 
Just really hope I can restore the motherboard and titan back to their original selves.... I wonder otherwise if there is a market to sell them naked and I'll get new - ryzen setup? :D hah
 
dancook said:
I didn't appreciate the 'maintenance' part of water-cooling as it's something I wanted to setup once and forget.. well it's not for me!
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you can certainly say that again. watercooling is great and doesn't have to be completely hands on (draining and flushing every month) but jeepers when did you last look anywhere near it. you surely must have spotted, even at a glance that something wasn't up?
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Still 'thrilled with the results'?
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i imagine the only people thrilled will be whoever he has to buy all his new pc gear from :p watching ebay for the 'slightly used' titan x for sale ;) (i jest op)
 
Thekwango said:
you can certainly say that again. watercooling is great and doesn't have to be completely hands on (draining and flushing every month) but jeepers when did you last look anywhere near it. you surely must have spotted, even at a glance that something wasn't up?

i imagine the only people thrilled will be whoever he has to buy all his new pc gear from :p watching ebay for the 'slightly used' titan x for sale ;) (i jest op)
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for a while the pc was on my desk, but I remove it under the desk so I had more space - and I couldn't easily see into it under there and due to cables i'd have to disconnect it to pull it out. So it just never occurred.
 
Watercooling can be dumb at times.

Spend hundreds or thousands on the hardware, then hundreds more on the watercooling gear, and the point of complete system failure is a length of £10 tubing..

Never seen plasticiser leaching as bad as the above - what a mess.

If you’re going to use flexible tubing use EPDM.

Anything else go hardline.
 
I set up my own loop for the first time this year and read about things like sikver coils as I'd seen others use them, but from what I found it's best not to use them!
 
andy_mk3 said:
I set up my own loop for the first time this year and read about things like sikver coils as I'd seen others use them, but from what I found it's best not to use them!
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Yep, water cooling has come far. Silver coils are a throwback to the DIY days. We now have specially formulated coolant mix to take care of that!
 
When building this loop I took the advice straight from the sticky

"Again, this is almost entirely up to you. The norm, however, is to use distilled or deionized water for the loop, and place a silver kill coil in the res to prevent algae and other little buggers from growing in your loop."

I didn't appreciate though Silver reacts with Nickel
 
dancook said:
When building this loop I took the advice straight from the sticky

"Again, this is almost entirely up to you. The norm, however, is to use distilled or deionized water for the loop, and place a silver kill coil in the res to prevent algae and other little buggers from growing in your loop."

I didn't appreciate though Silver reacts with Nickel
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That post is 8 years old, is probably due an update. I think nickel plated blocks especially are relatively new. EK had a lot of problems with nickel flaking in early revisions, there was drama.
 
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