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Postby Tank » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:05 am

Ok, recently in the last few days I noticed, wow, my water isnt flowing very well in my cooling system, being the Thermaltake Bigwater SE. I wasnt getting very high temps without it flowing actually, the copper heatsink absorbed alot, anyways. I wasnt going to bother taking it apart, but then today it wasnt flowing at ALL, and my waterblock was nearly empty, no water in it!! So I take it to the my work table, and I start looking and looking. I used the power supply in the comp to keep testing, so booting up, then turning it off, just to get power to the pump. So one time I was testing it, and then I look, HOLY CRAP, A LEAK A LEAK!! I quickly shut it down and tried to stop the leak with my finger but some coolant landed on my Video Card :shock: It was the return line on the waterblock, going from the waterblock into the rad, then the intake line started to leak as well, very small drips, but still! So I spent the last 4 hours taking my system apart, flushing the system and putting in new coolant I had. I found 4 clogs in the system, can you believe it? It turned out to be rubber type, like white stuff, and it clogged the system in 4 places.

my question is this

This IS a sealed system, is it not?? It is a continuous loop with no exposure to the outside atmosphere, how is dust and stuff getting into it? Why do I think stuff is getting in??

1. It clogged with those gobs of stuff.
2. I compared the old coolant to the new coolant, the old coolant was a VERY dark green, VERY, and the new stuff was extremely light, see through, you know, like a neon green. How could it have gotten so dirty?

Should I just switch back to air?? Thanks!

Any coolers out there for socket 939 that can get under 35 celcius under load??
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