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Stupid Water Pump Failure

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Wildfire

Limp Gawd
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Well I can consider myself one lucky SOB and wanted to share my little story with the rest of you. I was watching a DVD the other day on my nice little water cooled rig and all of a sudden my Via Aqua 1300 pump I've been using for about a year started to make the most horrendous sound and all I could think of was "Oh S*&^" time to shut down. I'm almost positive a blade broke off of the impeller and I'll post pics later this week of it.

Anywho, I've decided that since a good new pump would cost at least 75 or somewhere in there that I was going to go with the Thermaltake Bigwater and see how that little kit was since you can find them for ~119.00 before S&H. Although I suppose I could add in a second radiator with the Bigwater kit, I think it'll work just fine. I'm just happy I didn't fry anything :)

[EDIT] - Here's the pics I promised and yeah it was just as I thought, a nice little broken blade is to blame. Anyone care to take a guess as to how well it would work if I took that broken blade out ;)

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i just installed the big water and so far so good arctic silver for thermal grease;cpu(atlon643000@2.5) a zalman water block installed on the evga 6800GT its oced at 410/1080 and the idle temps are 42C playing doom3 and unreal t. 2004 it hits 53C.
 
Nice temps I'd say. My older rig was putting temps up right around in there before I placed a fan with my radiator and that helped out alot, but I think the bigwater will do just fine for my overclocking. Like my sig says I've had my P4 3.0 @ ~ 3.7 and I think the bigwater should be able to sustain that overclock with no probs so..... I think your temps are good considering you ran the GPU block as well and its all being powered by what some would consider to be an underpowered pump.
 
Seems like I see a lot of problems on various boards about these Via Aqua pumps of one kind or another. That problem is just shoddy workmanship or materials. It doesn't pay to be penny wise and pound foolish as my grandmother used to say. If you were using that pump in an aquarium you might come home from a weekend in Vegas to find a bunch of dead fish. Think what would have happened if your computer was running while you went down to the store to pickup some eats. Why not get a nice Eheim pump that has been time tested to provide continuous pumping of H20 without too many problems?

Oh and BTW, please RESIZE your pics!
 
Yeh, I too have heard plenty of horror stories about Via Aqua's. From loud rattling impellers to sudden pump death syndrome. :eek:

One of the reasons I went with a Maxijet, low price and good performance, reliability.

Seems as though Thermaltake may have a winner on their hands. You wouldn't think it looking at the components and the specks and all, but performance is quite nice for a low dollar kit.
 
Okay I resized the pics so their not as 'ginormous' as they were. And yeah plywood your right about the horror stories. This particular pump is noisy or produces that rattling noise because the magnetic impeller and blades are actually set at a 1/4 turn behind each other (i.e. the 2 do not spin as one or at the same rate). I believe this is a feature they use for aquarium purposes or as I like to put it; it prevents the Finding Nemo scene where he lodges the pebble in the blade and stops the spinning action. I've also see some people use a dabble of super glue between the impeller and blades so as to fix them together and make them spin at the same rate. And obviously my pump was guilty of the sudden death syndrome ;)
 
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