I had an interesting experience last night. Well Im playing a game on my computer and it suddenly freezes up (not the whole comp, just the 3d game). So CTR-ALT-DEL back to windows and everything is fine in there, I try the game again and it freezes. Then I try to run 3dmark and it freezes up as well. I think "weird, seems like only 3d applications seem to freeze up, must be corrupt drivers or something, so I give up for the day and decide to reinstall the drivers the next day. But before I turn off the computer, I look through the window in the case and what do I see, my waterblock is dripping like crazy and the top of my Ti4200 is covered with water . I quickly turn everything off, take out the card to dry it off, and then look at my waterblock.
This is what happened:
I must have tightened the barbs on too hard and the added water pressure must have pushed it over the edge and cracked the top. I just ordered an aluminum top, and hopefully by videocard is ok. Gonna have to be a week or so before I put everything back together and test it out again. Hopefully the 3d problem was due to the card being wet and will be fine once it dries up.
This is what happened:
I must have tightened the barbs on too hard and the added water pressure must have pushed it over the edge and cracked the top. I just ordered an aluminum top, and hopefully by videocard is ok. Gonna have to be a week or so before I put everything back together and test it out again. Hopefully the 3d problem was due to the card being wet and will be fine once it dries up.