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When H2O goes wrong/true confessions

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OPUS1

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Great sticky above on WC setups!
Didn't notice a fire extingusher in any of the pics.:eek:
I'm going to the wet side ....Could you please post your horror stories regarding the combining of H20 and electricity so that all us Newbs won't reinvent the wheel,Thanks
 
DONT PRESSURIZE YOUR LOOP!

after bleeding my old 8500 swiftech kit, I pressurized it by maybe 2-3psi. I just htought that more water was in the loop, more peak thermal capacity.....well my pump didn't like it and cracked after a couple weeks...

Fortunately all i lost was a pump, but the top label on my combo drive looks pretty ragged after getting soaked as badly as it did.
 
Originally posted by mustang_steve
DONT PRESSURIZE YOUR LOOP!

after bleeding my old 8500 swiftech kit, I pressurized it by maybe 2-3psi. I just htought that more water was in the loop, more peak thermal capacity.....well my pump didn't like it and cracked after a couple weeks...

Fortunately all i lost was a pump, but the top label on my combo drive looks pretty ragged after getting soaked as badly as it did.
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Naturally the first thought that comes into my head after reading this is "oooh how did you do it, I wanna try that". :D
 
i had a few leaks in mine..owell it's pure, no problem...turned it on, saw a screen for a sewcond..oh nope nvm :) no more booting for that mobo!! luckily brand new from the egg so i RMA'd it :) i know it's wrong but im poor now...can't afford anotehr 93$ mobo!
 
My stupid brother ran my computer dry, without turning on the water pump. The tubbing popped the water started to evaporate.
He left my comp after he turned it on (fro something) and then it autoshut off.

I came home turned it on and then to my horror (after running the waterpump and hitting the on switch almost instantly) water began to trickle outta the bottom of my case and my computer just reset and I was like WAHT THE FU*K!!! I almost killed my dumb as brother.

But luckily the only thing that took a hit (besides my tubbing and plastic latch on the copper waterblock, which melted by the way). was my power supply. The power supply died, and it was a small price to pay back in the day when I got my brand spanking new AMD 1900+ and my ATI 9000pro.

But ya.. then i switched to air.. simpler to take a appart and less of a mess to take care of, and I've given up on being temperature obsessed. Cause 5-10 c don't make a difference to my cpu, its well withing its operating threshhold.
 
I had a small crack on a plexi topped waterblock once, it was just a slow drip and didnt do anything.

Then, I had a plexi res that never seemed to seal around the barbs. The water dripped onto my HDD Cables and caused them to corrode, preventing the transfer of data. Just cleaned it up with some baking soda and water and worked fine.

Overall, pretty uneventful, but nice and quiet and I can run my little $68 1700+ pretty fast :D
 
Lets not be bashful, us newbs need the heads up!
(we won't laugh to much:D )
 
I have filled my AGP slot with water. Took a lot of time to dry out but then it was all fine :D
 
I took apart my old spir@l and cleaned it. Whne I put it back together, I overtightened the screws, but didn't notice. Water just kind of dribbled down the block down the mobo, over the brand new 9700pro, down the PCI slots, and over my audigy. I finally noticed when my video started crapping out. I looked over and was like OH SHIT!!!!

Thank GOD for distilled (non conductive) water and water wetter. ALWAYS ALWAYS use some distilled water and an electrically insulative additive.

I lost NOTHING.
Luck.
 
So I spend almost all summer putting together this WC cube beast of mine (in sig). By beast, I mean its weight. It feels like something around 50 pounds, which is pretty heavy for a computer, IMHO. Anyway, I'm all psyched about the rig. It has a window in it, CCFLs, a monster heatercore, all sorts of cool gizmos, and the coolant has UV additive, so it glows red...

On through the night, me and my buds are playing BF1942, and when it comes around to like 2AM, I look over and there's this brilliant red, glowing, thing of snot hanging off one of the fittings. It was a stelagtight (or however you call them) of drying / congealed coolant and additive.

That was a close one. Pulled the hose (surplus cheap-ass stuff we have all around the labs here at TAMU) and replaced it with some Clearflex. No problems since.
 
I didn't use teflon tape on the barbs to my northbridge. Oops! One temporarily dead A7N8X-Deluxe. It took a heavy alcohol bath (took about three liters) to clean it all up. Antifreeze and northbridges don't mix.

I also pulled a tube off my heater core by accident while the pump was on (clamp was on wrong)... good thing it all shot outside of my case.
 
I can't believe that H20 is this forgiving. Not many people having problems.
Maybe it is idiot proof:eek:
Sounds like even I can do it:D
 
Originally posted by mustang_steve
DONT PRESSURIZE YOUR LOOP!

after bleeding my old 8500 swiftech kit, I pressurized it by maybe 2-3psi. I just htought that more water was in the loop, more peak thermal capacity.....well my pump didn't like it and cracked after a couple weeks...

Fortunately all i lost was a pump, but the top label on my combo drive looks pretty ragged after getting soaked as badly as it did.
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The only reason it broke is because you used swiftech TRASH.

I've had two swifty pumps blow the intake plate right off under normal use. The body casing is made from shit plastic and needs to be redesigned.

Get a real pump and don't worry.


My other horror story is a leaking reservoir, but that really didn't do anything, other than make most of my internals blue UV reactive... Weird how it didn't short anything out!
 
Originally posted by OPUS1
I can't believe that H20 is this forgiving. Not many people having problems.
Maybe it is idiot proof:eek:
Sounds like even I can do it:D
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Yes water is just about harmless if it isn´t electically conductive. Would be interesting to see if you could make a submersible computer with 100 % distilled water.
 
fumbling my fingers around inside trying to put a fan on the cpu1 post so I could boot after a bios jumper wipe. I knocked a fitting loose....didn't noticed it at first. When the pump pressure came on.....WHAMO...a GEYSER. It hosed my video card, mother board, sound card, hard drive, everything.......I only lost a mother board, and a psu.

Both, I returned to COMP USA since I had TAP on it. I got new...it worked....That fitting now has a hose clamp and duct tape on it.
 
Over time I developed a slow leak from my waterblock. It dripped onto my video card. That was a while ago though, and it was from a block I created myself.

That Voodoo 3 3000 was teh only thing I ever killed with watercooling. You tend to learn thing quick when money is involved.

So now I always turn on the pump and watch for a few minutes after I moves my machines (2 watercooled boxen now). This saved me when I moved into my current apt. I turned on the pump and watched water spray all over the inside of my computer after I moved. I took it all apart and let it dry. Patched my faulty hose, and all is well again.
 
Originally posted by __Maad__
Naturally the first thought that comes into my head after reading this is "oooh how did you do it, I wanna try that". :D
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water is not compressable so it would probably do nothing except slightly expand the tubes and put pressure on the pump gaskets or whatever they have.
 
Yeah but pressurizing the water does raise the boiling point. So if your proc is running 212 degrees you may want to raise the psi of the loop.
 
While filling my system, glass of water(distilled) slipped from my hand and spilled down over the powersupply, motherboard, and video card. It also got some on my cd drives and hard drives but those don't really count.

I took my time cleaning and drying it all up and nothing was damaged.
 
combining of H20 and electricity
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Technically speaking...

Was on the porcelain once, stood up and had a pager flip off my belt and right into the bowl. It was a company pager so I had to go in after it, can you say Trainspotting.

Egads... I'm still scrubbing my hands and that happened years ago.

The pager didn't work afterwards BTW.
 
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