pics of a FrozenQ res after 3 years

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koven

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i bought this 250ml res about 3 years ago after frozenq's initial disaster with complaints about leaks... alex said the new version was improved and the problem fixed, so i placed my order

this is what it looks like 3 years later.... pc has never been moved aside from dusting, no external stress on the res... im assuming it's just a structural failure

i know it's out of warranty, but an acknowledgement or apology wouldn't hurt... alex has not responded to my emails though.

pc running flawless for 3 years, it's tucked away and i can't see through window unless i go look. i wake up one day and notice this weird noise coming from it, i check my temps and i'm idling at 60+.

the noise was my pump dying mixed with a waterfall effect because the res has slowly leaked and there was barely any water in the loop.

luckily, it did not leak on anything important and i have since ordered an EK res and things are fine now. really lucked out and dodged a bullet.

yes, they're the best looking res on the market, but no, i will never buy one again..


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Yikes!

Glad things worked out for you when this happened, as you said it could have been ugly.

As for the res, I'm not an engineer but I'm not sure how that could happen unless there was some physical force applied. Could twisting the caps to align inlets/outlets result in slight but constant torque on the cylinder such that as it aged it finally gave out?

Edited to add: You know as someone who is considering his building and installing my first custom loop those pictures scare the hell out of me. :eek:
 
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Interesting, id looked into these, and the price scared me away.....good to know though, thats a serious failure


@ Darkstar --- This is far from the norm, going with any big name company's res wont be an issue. And easily just a bad batch of acrylic could eventually fail, there would not be a constant torque with a loop, its just the torqe applied with the initial force (screwing the cap / end on), after that there is not really a force, atleast "torquing" , on the ends.

Dont let this scare ya a away, lots of benefits to WCing, shit ive killed a card and a mobo due to a faulty part, but I still WC my stuff :D
 
W.Feather,

Thanks, I'm not going to let it stop me, but it does give me pause.

As for the torque, I didn't think there would be any but I was grasping at straws as the damage looks like one would expect if the tube was over torqued.
 
Eeep. I too have wanted one of those from time to time.

Lucky nothing got smoked.
 
If the OP hadnt been explicit on no drops, id wager it had fallen and thats from an impact, too big IMO for a simple over torque, stress fractures would be smaller (typically) and aroudn the lid area, not "splintered' out.
 
Hopefully my res doesn't give out like that. I've had it for about a year and a half and did a flush/refill a couple months ago. Hopefully the one I got is a better version. Also, mine didn't have a port on the side, just 2 on bottom and 1 on top, is that a custom cap or something?
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
Yikes!

Glad things worked out for you when this happened, as you said it could have been ugly.

As for the res, I'm not an engineer but I'm not sure how that could happen unless there was some physical force applied. Could twisting the caps to align inlets/outlets result in slight but constant torque on the cylinder such that as it aged it finally gave out?

Edited to add: You know as someone who is considering his building and installing my first custom loop those pictures scare the hell out of me. :eek:
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If you don't buy from junk companies you have nothing to worry about (aside from problems that can always crop up). It really is a case of do your homework, and just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's worth the money.
 
DarkStryke said:
If you don't buy from junk companies you have nothing to worry about (aside from problems that can always crop up). It really is a case of do your homework, and just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's worth the money.
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Because these reservoirs are actually cheap in price or in apparent build quality...
 
They are the opposite of cheap.....


DarkStryke said:
If you don't buy from junk companies you have nothing to worry about (aside from problems that can always crop up). It really is a case of do your homework, and just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's worth the money.
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All my acrylic waterblock tops did the same thing about 6 or 7 years ago, hence why I refuse to use acrylic for waterblocks. I think it's from heating and cooling but I could be wrong.
 
DarkStryke said:
If you don't buy from junk companies you have nothing to worry about (aside from problems that can always crop up). It really is a case of do your homework, and just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's worth the money.
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I tend to feel that way too, except that I would say "Just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's worth the money.":)
 
I have also had a t virus res in the past, after a few months it started to leak, but has never cracked, a friend of mine also had one and had the same problem with his leaking also.
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
Yikes!

Glad things worked out for you when this happened, as you said it could have been ugly.

As for the res, I'm not an engineer but I'm not sure how that could happen unless there was some physical force applied. Could twisting the caps to align inlets/outlets result in slight but constant torque on the cylinder such that as it aged it finally gave out?

Edited to add: You know as someone who is considering his building and installing my first custom loop those pictures scare the hell out of me. :eek:
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Bad design.
When the water heated up a lot it caused the glass to expand.
There wasnt enough space for the glass to expand in so it broke.
 
Somebody needs to make a nice borosilicate reservoir with resin end caps. It'd be expensive, but it wouldn't crack like this acrylic stuff all seems prone to do under certain conditions.
 
Nenu said:
Bad design.
When the water heated up a lot it caused the glass to expand.
There wasnt enough space for the glass to expand in so it broke.
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Except the coolant in a computer water loop does not have that high a delta. A degree or a few degrees at most. Even if you screwup and have an overloaded rad with a ten degree delta, I'd be surprised to see acrylic crack spiral style.
 
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Check the first post
i wake up one day and notice this weird noise coming from it, i check my temps and i'm idling at 60+.

the noise was my pump dying
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When the water cant flow round the loop, the radiator cant cool it.
He had high temps then it cracked.
The sales pitch mentions resistance to cracking so they clearly have had an issue with this.
Its still not solved.
 
I've had some EK reservoirs do this when my loop was 100% full to the brim. With worm-screw clamps, I and all metal parts otherwise, I'd suppose the pressure - from even a 10 degree delta - was too much, and blew the res out.

And another EK tube res just cracked one day, out of the blue, sitting in my garage. I feel the contraction from the Canadian cold caused the acrylic to shrink around the end caps and crack.

Either way, it's the price you pay with acrylic parts. :)
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
Yikes!

Glad things worked out for you when this happened, as you said it could have been ugly.

As for the res, I'm not an engineer but I'm not sure how that could happen unless there was some physical force applied. Could twisting the caps to align inlets/outlets result in slight but constant torque on the cylinder such that as it aged it finally gave out?

Edited to add: You know as someone who is considering his building and installing my first custom loop those pictures scare the hell out of me. :eek:
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I'm also thinking about doing my first loop. I was excited to use primochill rigid acrylic... I am wondering if this is a bad idea now!
 
I am glad you posted this i was very much looking into buy one of these to put into my new loop i think ill have to think twice
 
JeremyCT said:
Somebody needs to make a nice borosilicate reservoir with resin end caps. It'd be expensive, but it wouldn't crack like this acrylic stuff all seems prone to do under certain conditions.
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I'm looking into that aquacomputer borosilicate one as i read this. I have never had a problem with delrin cracking over the years, ONLY with plexy. Very pricy if you want the lights and do-dads though.
 
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