Thank you for this article. Made me think about getting this kind of cooling system. I have heard good and bad reviews from these system. My system isnt worth much, but it is worth something. I cant afford to lose the whole system with a part failure like this. This was Catastrophic in my opinion, but with anything that leaks, and on idle, thats not good. This is a hit and miss product, but certainly you would have to replace this at one point, and when it gets to late, it will get to late. I will stick to strictly air cooling as of now. My hyper 212+ doesnt trail far behind, and is actually one of the better coolers on the market! I hope you get your RMA for all your broken parts!
Hm, the funny thing is the take home message I got from this thread was that this was a very rare, fluke failure and that the company behind it proactively is replacing everything damaged (or even possibly damaged).
Not to sound like a corsair fanboy, but all of my experience with their products personally have been good, reviews are consistenly good, and service as demonstrated here seems to be good.