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Newbie water cooling question

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Garbe

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Hey guys

Long time reader of the H but don’t visit the forums very often. Anyway, I did a build with my son early this year and installed a Swiftech H220 X2 for the CPU. Problem is that he noticed a bit of leakage at the bottom of the chassis and upon further investigation it seemed the pump was running slow and the color had almost turned from red to almost clear.
I was able to get the pump running freely by cranking it to full speed but now I’m seeing particles moving in the resivoir and also a brownish sorta foam/ bubbles at the top. I have not witnessed any sort of leak since but obviously something has to be done.
So my question is, how should I proceed? Run a cleaning agent through it and then refill with fresh coolant? If so what products and process should I use?
Thanks for any insight in advance.

Garrett
 
If you're on-warranty, trade it in. It'll be easier than repairing, cleaning and refilling.

If you're off warranty and don't want to just get a new one, just repair it? Then you're going to have to find where the leak is and fix it.
Then you can clean the loop out, refill the coolant and put it back in use.
 
Contact Swiftech, if you see water at the bottom of the case, thats a no go on cleaning etc, thats a return and get another.

We used to have a Swiftech rep on the forums, I don't remember their name or how often they come here though. I have the same unit in one of my rigs, first thing to do with any watercooling, AIO or custom is to run it outside of the case to check for leaks, I have a spare PSU for this and let it run for a day non-stopped, after that it gets install into the PC assuming all is well.

The hoses are removable on these, so check to make sure they are snug and all the hose clips are in place over the barbs, also make sure the fill port screw on the rad is nice and tight as well.
 
The nice thing about Swifty's H-series prebuilts are that they can be taken apart for maintenance.

I agree with the others on the warranty route, but if that isn't available to you, it's not too daunting a task to take those units apart. It'll help if you can definitively identify the source of the leak.

Once you've got that sorted, get some new tubing for the rebuild, and just do distilled water and biocide for the new coolant. You can't go wrong with that combo.

Keep us posted with what you find, and good luck!
 
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