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Koolance radiator failure

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Siriso

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I just had a hole show up on the end of one of my rads. It's less than two years old and I only use distilled water in my loop. It leaked on my 480 and took it out (RIP :mad:)

Looking up reviews of rads didn't really give me much of an idea of brand quality but my entire loop is Koolance and aside from this I've been really satisfied with the look and performance.

Is this just one of the hazards (or a freak occurrence) of WC or is Koolance's quality not so great?

I've patched it up but I'm going to be replacing it and I'm just not getting a clear answer from the reviews I'm finding...or maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
 
Do you have the aluminum or copper Koolance radiator. If it is the aluminum one and you have only been running distilled water than right there would be your culprit. If you have one of the copper radiators then I would have to say a freak thing.

If you are mixing different metals in a water cooling loop then you need some type of inhibitor like antifreeze.
 
No aluminum in the loop. The only two types of metal are copper and nickel. The hold in the rad looks like a manufacturing defect or something. I epoxied over it and it appears to be hold pretty well.
 
What watercooling parts are you running besides the Koolace radiator?? I have read in a thread about somebody having 2 radiators blow out on him, a thermochill and a black ice sr 1 or gtx, he was running 3 ddc 3.2 on a triple top right before the rad.
 
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