Welcome to Overclockers Forums! Join us to reply in threads, receive reduced ads, and to customize your site experience!
It looks like rouging to me.
Are there stainless steel pieces in your system?
Curious to see what the cause is.
BTW don't use any vinegesr. People sometimes use it for cleaning rads etc but it is aggressive and more than likely will not help in any way for your particular issue.
As Jack stated tear down the system and clean all your individual components to find the culprit.
As for the rads, connect a hose from a hot water tap. Flush and shake them thoroughly them for 20mins or so with hot tap water and then immediately flush 2 to 3 times with distilled.to prevent any tap water deposits.
I would still do a tear down and open up the CPU block and pumps. The GPU block is a pain to open, depending which manufacturer and most of the time will void warranty. It could be bad plating on something, idk. Without tearing it all apart and investigating you won't know and yes stick with the simple basics that have worked for most of us. My loop's flow, temps and looks, look good as new.
Also, if you don't have an extra port in the back of your reservoir since you're putting a silver bullet through, try one of these. I use two bitspower temp probes no problem.
Oh yeah, I saw those, actually. So with one of those I'd basically split one line into two lines with that sensor in the middle?
Nope. You just add that in into the line and either have fittings on each end and continue the route. I have two of them as female to male to a radiator's in and out. I only got two so I can get a average as these things aren't particularly on the money but with in +/- within the margin of error unless you get one that is way off. I just wanted to keep tabs and that has helped me in the past as well as a flow meter but again all these things aren't needed but they did help me notice my deteriorating loop and give me a general idea of the loops health and what my delta temps are at.
Other than the GPU (undecided), I'm definitely cracking everything open. I want to get this right. That's a good point about the difficultly/warranty. I'll wait till pics of everything else cracked open are posted before I make a call on the GPU block.
Mmk, for now I'll just plan on a good clean and then distilled + silver and/or PTN. I might not add PTN this time around.
Oh yeah, I saw those, actually. So with one of those I'd basically split one line into two lines with that sensor in the middle?