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I recently replaced my A64 3200+ with an Opteron 165 and while I was swapping CPUs I noticed that there was something visible in the top of my Cuplex XT block. Not wanting to mess with it at the time I just put in the new CPU and decided I would clean it out in a couple of weeks when I had time. During these two weeks I decided to add a couple of blocks (NB and GPU), completely replace all the tubing and maybe try some new mixture of coolant to put an end to what I suspected was algae.
I was using a mixture of distilled water and AC fluid in a loop that contained an Aquatube->Aquastream->EVO 240->Cuplex XT. This is the slime that was in the base of my Cuplex XT:
Gross!
Anyway, it cleaned up pretty easily and I continued planning out the plumbing to accomodate the new blocks. I got all the blocks mounted and began filling the aquatube with PC ICE (to replace the distilled water/AC fluid combo.) When the liquid hit the NB block a blue waterfall appeared.....sh*t a leak! I spent so much time getting the tubes and blocks mounted that I forgot to tighten the screws on the NB block . I tightened up the screws and stopped the leak, but not before my MB was covered in blue sticky liquid.
I gave the MB an alcohol bath and put the board on top of a heating vent to dry overnight and moved on to a longer leak test. After turning on the pump I noticed that the aquajet wasn't shooting water against the plexiglass like it used to in the old setup (there was a bubble of fluid on top of the aquajet). I had some major restriction somewhere, or the PC ICE was too thick. I was hoping that once the lines had been purged of air, the flow might pick up a bit....wrong.
The next morning there was no change, the flow hadn't changed at all, so I decided to remove what I perceived to be the major source of the restriction, the twinplex pro SLI type I block. After removing the block the flow still sucked, so I decided to drain the majority of the PC ICE and replace it with distilled water. After doing this the light on the pump controller kept turning to red and the pump no longer seemed to be working. So I drained the system and am now on AIR cooling, but at least the MB didn't die.
Did I try to run too much crap in one loop? Was PC ICE a bad choice to use with AC gear?
I was using a mixture of distilled water and AC fluid in a loop that contained an Aquatube->Aquastream->EVO 240->Cuplex XT. This is the slime that was in the base of my Cuplex XT:
Gross!
Anyway, it cleaned up pretty easily and I continued planning out the plumbing to accomodate the new blocks. I got all the blocks mounted and began filling the aquatube with PC ICE (to replace the distilled water/AC fluid combo.) When the liquid hit the NB block a blue waterfall appeared.....sh*t a leak! I spent so much time getting the tubes and blocks mounted that I forgot to tighten the screws on the NB block . I tightened up the screws and stopped the leak, but not before my MB was covered in blue sticky liquid.I gave the MB an alcohol bath and put the board on top of a heating vent to dry overnight and moved on to a longer leak test. After turning on the pump I noticed that the aquajet wasn't shooting water against the plexiglass like it used to in the old setup (there was a bubble of fluid on top of the aquajet). I had some major restriction somewhere, or the PC ICE was too thick. I was hoping that once the lines had been purged of air, the flow might pick up a bit....wrong.
The next morning there was no change, the flow hadn't changed at all, so I decided to remove what I perceived to be the major source of the restriction, the twinplex pro SLI type I block. After removing the block the flow still sucked, so I decided to drain the majority of the PC ICE and replace it with distilled water. After doing this the light on the pump controller kept turning to red and the pump no longer seemed to be working. So I drained the system and am now on AIR cooling, but at least the MB didn't die
.Did I try to run too much crap in one loop? Was PC ICE a bad choice to use with AC gear?
