Fixed, you said it yourself in your own post
the user improperly installs the O-ring
my DDC w/ xpsc restop is still going strong after ~2years
according to you that makes me smarter than most people with a ddc. thanks
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Laing isn't in Asia. They are located in Hungry in Europe. The pumps work just fine in their stock configurations. Heat is a general killer of most electronics. The DDC series needs to have the base cool enough in a stock setting.
Now, adding a performance top to increase the flow will increase the noise, the heat and load effort for the little pump. The life span becomes unstable to predict.
Figures of flow or figures of death rate?
MCP350 indeed seems less affected by this, my still going strong after 2yrs.
I think I'll stick with them, imho they pack enough flow when doubled in a single loop, and between somewhat lower performance(?) and reliability I'll always opt for second. :up:
I blame your xspc top. not the first time nor the last.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=258626
Im suprised no one told the op the cpu has whats called a thermal shutdown protocal, which was implimented on all intel cpus since p4 netburst days.
What that means, in the event of a cooling fail, the cpu will dow throttle itself until the processor hits a temp of 110c. At that point it will shut down the system.
Then when u try to start the system up again witha failed cooling, you will get a halt in bios, which says cpu has overheated.
The top that was used does not matter as there are people who are going to say it was caused by XSPC regardless of what actually occurred. There seems to be a trend that creates the following condition:
public pump_fail(any:pump_used)
{
if(MCP355_pump==pump_used)
{
if(custom_top)
{
return("Caused by XSPC top");
}
else
{
return("Caused by XSPC top");
}
}
else
{
return("Caused by pump failure");
}
}
Now ignore the above code and note the important result. There appears to be a trend in the output of pump_fail(). Apparently pump failures are the result of 1 of 2 things, an XSPC top or a pump failure. Now there is another interesting trend where we find that that the only time that a pump can fail from its own failure is if a MCP335 is not involved. If a MCP335 is involved then the failure is caused by a XSPC top regardless of what top is used. This is why your statement about it being an EK top has no relevance to the cause of this problem. The only relevant information here is that the pump was a MCP335, this is the only thing that appears to matter when it comes to pump failures. :shakes: