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Yo,
I'd like to hear from the people that had their WC system screw up, by leaking, heating and spilling etc. and also what was the end result - did it work, did you soak it in alcohol and did it work etc.?
Cheers.
Edit:
I think it would be good if people posted 'All clear' messages if nothing went wrong, then I can figure out the % of casualties...
CHEAP ASS REZ that would crack like a MOFO and leak!!!!! REAL ****ER!!!
Rob
sneakyfart
10-12-02, 04:36 PM
my wife came home for lunch one day turned on the comp to chk the email, shut it down forgetting to turn-off the master switch that runs the pump. :mad: so -14c coolant was flowing through the cpu and gpu for about 4 hrs. condensation spread out from the gpu past the insulation and froze up nicely. she gets home before me and goes to chk the mail again and POOF there goes gf4 ti4600. now everything is covered with comformal coating, dilectic grease silicone and Armaflex insulation tape. :D
Cheesy Peas
10-12-02, 05:19 PM
Originally posted by sneakyfart
my wife came home for lunch one day turned on the comp to chk the email, shut it down forgetting to turn-off the master switch that runs the pump. :mad: so -14c coolant was flowing through the cpu and gpu for about 4 hrs. condensation spread out from the gpu past the insulation and froze up nicely. she gets home before me and goes to chk the mail again and POOF there goes gf4 ti4600. now everything is covered with comformal coating, dilectic grease silicone and Armaflex insulation tape. :D
OUCH!! Does she live?(ur wife that is lol)
sneakyfart
10-12-02, 05:27 PM
she made up for it :D and all is well...
Cheesy Peas
10-12-02, 05:28 PM
Originally posted by sneakyfart
she made up for it :D and all is well...
Im sure she did;)
SkiFletch
10-12-02, 09:56 PM
lmao, she better have made up for it many times over :eek:
I've had my plexiglass topped Gemini High Flow cpu cooler split on me and slowly drip on the agp slot itself. mercifully it was slow enough to alert me so that it alerted me by crashing every minute and didnt fry either my video card or my motherboard. after a lot of rubbing alcohol, a few hours under a fan, and a new waterblock, i'm back up and running like new (wipes sweat off forehead).
I also had my fitting to my pump leak because I didnt tighten my clamp there quite enough. mercifully, it was ok again cause the pump is at the bottom of the case, and again, the leak was so slow that I noticed the sound of the bubbling air and the water only touched the bottom of the case where there arent any computer parts. I've been lucky. clamp your stuff properly, and you shouldnt need to be as well ;)
masitti
10-12-02, 11:30 PM
Back in my n00b watercooling days (or some people still say I am :p), I put the block upside down (spiral on a AthlonXP) - booted into BIOS, the temps were 115c. LOL, I tightened the WB more, booted again: that was the last of that processor. :eek:
^Bump^ :D
So, could we have a count on how people things have gone wrong for? I'd just like to see the % of how many have screwed up on watercooling, before deciding if its good for me.
CharlesHF
11-02-02, 06:03 PM
Whatever you do, remember to turn on your pump.
1st time I forgot:
Still had my bong. Forgot to plug in the pump. 10 mins later, computer crashes, the water that was in the Maze2 drips out of the tubing and onto my TNT2, which survived. Everything survived. :D
2nd time I forgot: (inline system, this time. It happened several days ago) turned on comupter, forgot to plug in the pump. Several minutes later (don't know when because I was in the shower when it happened) it died. I got out of the shower, and asked my parents, "who turned off the computer?" "Nobody, but we heard a beep!" CRAP. Went in there, the circuit tripped on that side of the room, and the water had boiled, and melted a hole in my Tygon, and dripped all over my Gainward GF4 Ti4200 128MB. :mad: I took it all apart (7AM before school), laid the case on it's side, put the Ti4200 in a certain angle, took my room fan and left it to blow on the inside of the case all day. Everything dried out.
Everything survived. I replaced 2 sections of Tygon, and haven't had an accident since.
I highly recommend a relay for anyone that does H2O. (speaking of that, I need to get one) :eek:
:)
Frodo Baggins
11-02-02, 06:29 PM
Originally posted by CharlesHF
Whatever you do, remember to turn on your pump.
1st time I forgot:
Still had my bong. Forgot to plug in the pump. 10 mins later, computer crashes, the water that was in the Maze2 drips out of the tubing and onto my TNT2, which survived. Everything survived. :D
2nd time I forgot: (inline system, this time. It happened several days ago) turned on comupter, forgot to plug in the pump. Several minutes later (don't know when because I was in the shower when it happened) it died. I got out of the shower, and asked my parents, "who turned off the computer?" "Nobody, but we heard a beep!" CRAP. Went in there, the circuit tripped on that side of the room, and the water had boiled, and melted a hole in my Tygon, and dripped all over my Gainward GF4 Ti4200 128MB. :mad: I took it all apart (7AM before school), laid the case on it's side, put the Ti4200 in a certain angle, took my room fan and left it to blow on the inside of the case all day. Everything dried out.
Everything survived. I replaced 2 sections of Tygon, and haven't had an accident since.
I highly recommend a relay for anyone that does H2O. (speaking of that, I need to get one) :eek:
:)
no need for a relay. IMO, if you want a relay you need to extra molah, AND you need to mod your pump (there goes the return policy ) Just use a power switch., Plug both your comp and the pump in the power switch and there's no way you can turn the comp on without the pump
nealric
11-02-02, 08:34 PM
The list of shame:
1st attempt at mounting maze3- crushed my tbird 1.4
1st attempt at running the thing- massive leakage and near fryage
2nd attempt- same thing
3rd attempt- forgot to open the valves and almost lost everything
4th attempt: FINNALY got it ;-)
Since then Ive had a few small mishaps (like spilling the res all over my lap)- but I would never go back to air.
broken003
11-02-02, 08:53 PM
Sure, if you ask to hear from people that had problems...you gill get a post with a bunch of negative posts. I had the same attitude... I researched, bought the right stuff.took my time...and didnt have any problems...
I think if you take your time, you will find out that it is not a real big deal and you wont regret going H2O.
nothing so far..
hope to god nothing happens..
Albigger
11-02-02, 09:29 PM
waaaaayyyyyyyy back when.....
first time I made my own water block, anxious to test it out and didn't have the case ready or something...
... lets just say the core of Tbird 800 does not stand so well to trying to C-Clamp your waterblock to your board
this time around, made my second waterblock, trying to mount it right this time...didn't tighten screws enough or screws bottomed out and waterblock didnt' have good enough contact - fried xp1600
those are the only things (so far) watercooled related. just take your time and do everything the right way and you'll be fine.
on my dual board one of the ziff sockets is upside down so i had to remove the top of my block and flip it around to keep the logo straight and outlet in the right place.
Frodo Baggins
11-03-02, 01:11 AM
first time I watercooled, I got it done right ;)
Rio pumps... :(
Cracked inlets on Danners. Use a hose clamp on the inlet to prevent this from happening.
kinglouiex
11-03-02, 03:01 AM
OK my turn had a couple of "didnt clamp it down tight enough" amd 900 and 1 ghz, but the latest one is once I was changing the waa waa in the puter and didnt push the tubing all the way down on the WB when I turned on the pump the tube came off and splashed me in the face with antifreeze.
Warlord2
11-03-02, 03:19 AM
man so many things have happened to me I have no clue why I still have a computer.
here a couple
1. resavoir sprang a leak
2. tubing that goes on barb came undone when the pump was on
3. killed my mobo by having the pump too close to bios
4. posibly killed my hard drive having pump too close
5. filling the system is hard with inline and I sorta missed the opening and got water all over my mobo/cards.
6. somehow I THINK the monitor killed my motherboard while my case was up against the monitor.
those are only the ones that are on the top of my head, lucky the only things I have killed are 2 mobos and a hard drive, oh yea a couple of $5 nics.
I have had 3 major leaks. All with the system turned on, and every componets getting drenched. Out of those three, only one caused a freeze. Everytime I have had no deaths. I guess Im just lucky. This was the worst one:
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116162&highlight=revenge
I'm willing to bet that "almost" every water leak or accident that has or will be posted could have probably been prevented if the owner payed alittle more attention to detail or inspected what they did alittle closer. Except for pump related accidents. Excluding mine ofcouse that was totally my fault.
But... Water colling is SAFE!!!
JFettig
11-03-02, 07:31 AM
here you guys are saying its safe, i mean look at all these accidents;)
honestly i havent killed anything WHILE watercooling, i nocked a inductor off of the back of my mobo mounting a chipset block. but other than that, iv neverkilled anything
if you do it rite there will be nothing rong..
Frodo Baggins
11-03-02, 09:30 AM
obviously, if you make a thread ASKING people to tell you what went wrong your gonna have alot of replies that say they did something wrong....
if you ask a thread that says who got it RIGHT, I bet a decent number will say aye ;)
juliendogg
11-03-02, 10:29 AM
when i first set up my w/c with a bong, somehow killed my xp 1700 while installing the block. still don't know how, there was no visible damage to the core, just would not boot. replaced with the 1600 in my sig. i ran the bong for a good 6 or 8 months with no trauma. now i've switched the entire system to a rad and moved everythign inside the case, no problems there.
ATLPIMP
11-03-02, 12:22 PM
On my second setup, my D-Tek core started leaking from the barbs. I had to take everything apart, dry up all the water from my case, and GOOP it. It worked in the end, but it was a real pain in the ass!
Emericana
11-03-02, 12:52 PM
i used bad clamps... the huge metal ones and i didnt relize till the end that they only covered half of the tubing. well i was installing my block after leak testing for 3 days and poof water got all over the board/cpu etc. i let the stuff dry for 4 days straight and LUCKILY everything worked.... havnt gone back to h2o until now.
yesterday i am setting up my loop about to start leak testing and now i have all of these particles in my loop
TheDrone
11-03-02, 02:46 PM
My dam idiot crazy project to make a WC-Block out of BUDGET tools !
BabyEater
11-03-02, 02:59 PM
Br oforgot to turn on pump which melted the epoxy holding me plexi top on so the blok leaked and soaked the graphics card motherboard .CPU was ok tho
Iron Hawk
11-03-02, 03:17 PM
I have spilt water all over my system. everything still works fine. I did loose my 1800+ when i tried to save time and only use only 2 of the 4 mounting holes. there wasnt enough pressure and my CPU heated up to the point where it fried.
juliendogg
11-03-02, 06:11 PM
Originally posted by BabyEater
Br oforgot to turn on pump which melted the epoxy holding me plexi top on so the blok leaked and soaked the graphics card motherboard .CPU was ok tho
wow! hot enough to melt the eopxy and the cpu lived?! amazing
pauldriver
11-03-02, 06:24 PM
Originally posted by Colin
Rio pumps... :(
Cracked inlets on Danners. Use a hose clamp on the inlet to prevent this from happening.
I've had this one on my supreme too.
Albigger
11-04-02, 03:34 AM
Originally posted by pauldriver
I've had this one on my supreme too.
can you expound on this problem? i have a danner and seeing two posts like this worries me.
i'm using a hose clamp on the inlet and outlet, but I have NPT barbs screwed into the inlet/outlet (well, the outlet is a coupling to an NPT barb)
is it being suggested to actually hose clamp the plastic inlet of the pump???
had gotten a new part for my WC, so I took it all apart and set it back up. Re-inspecting it a few days later I noticed a hose on the waterblock wasn't on the barb all the way to the base, so I pushed down on it trying to get the hose on all the way- Good bye Tbird. It wasn't all bad though, I just upgraded to the one in my sig (the old one was a 700@1Ghz)
BTW- this is a good thread idea, will give noobs a look at what not to do, and what to watch out for.
lemmyslender
11-04-02, 10:54 AM
No problems to speak of so far :) (knocks on wood)
But I did take my time, researched, and tested before actually using it on the rig. My block is a ghetto Pentium HS enclosed in acryllic with Plumber's Goop. No leaks, and it been running about 2 months now. Not the best performance, but better than my stock air-cooling. :D Running XP1600@1750 1.8v at 40-41 C load.
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