So thats after 8 months use you have that degree of plasticiser leech and tube opacity?
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So thats after 8 months use you have that degree of plasticiser leech and tube opacity?
Well, its not as bad as it looks in that other picture. Though it is pretty bad. The reflection of the camera's flash makes it look worse than it is.
I have to say that it is darker than I would like and a far sight from clear.
Here's a picture with just ambient light without the flash so you can see what it really looks like:
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5521/leechiu8.jpg
But look at it when I first put it together.. *sigh*
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1...ishedloop4.jpg
Lol, you had to mention it. Wasn't bothering me before as I don't have a window on my case and I keep it closed... But now, what to do what to do.
What can average leech be expected to look like for 8 months?
Dateranoth
You should see the loop I've had running since about April 07 without changing the water. It looks like I'm running milk in the loop the 'plasticizer leech' is so bad. It still works though, and I've been too lazy to change it.
That case just looks inexpensive to me. I'm thoroughly surprized when I built my loop, after 2 months it was really murky, then I changed the tubing and put new liquid in it and its been clear since then, over 3 months now.
I think it was rad flux, thats what it was, not plasticizer whatever you call it, maybe thats what you have?
I don't know. It could be rad flux, but I cleaned the rad pretty thoroughly before I put it in the loop.
Whatcha mean the case looks inexpensive? Nice way of saying cheap ;)? It certainly isn't meant for water cooling, but I like the looks on the outside so I didn't want to change it. In the future, if I do two loops I'm sure I'll upgrade the case then.
However, for now, I'm not really concerned with the leech. I don't have any lights in the case, and not even a window to see in. So, I guess I'll leave it be for now.
Dateranoth
Is that masterkleer tubing your using or tygon?
BTW, in that first pic I see two different sets of corsair memory, whats the silver memory kit?
Its Tygon. And the memory is exactly the same stuff. Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 . I had a set die on me and when I RMAd it they sent me the RAM back with the Dual-path heat exchange on it.
As a matter of fact, they sent me 3 shipments before I got a working one, and all where the silver kind. Either they were out of the standard kind or they don't make it anymore. The other thing I noticed with this memory is it isn't detected as SLI-Ready by my board. I have to manually adjust the voltage and timings. Otherwise, it works the exact same.
Dateranoth
ok, thanks man!
Been a long time since I've posted anything here. Haven't really changed any water cooling components in years. I'm still getting life out of the old stuff. Which is why I love water cooling in the first place.
Quick update. I installed a new 680 GTX SC+ and had to do some modification to get my MCW60 to fit the stock heat spreader. Little bit of work, but worth it for this lovely block to keep on kicking for me.
It didn't go as easy as I could have hoped. Had to do some modifications of the card to get the water block to fit.
Pulled the 480GTX:
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2631-2/IMG_0183.JPG
Had to pull out all my bags of tricks:
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2607-2/IMG_0184.JPG
I thought these tabs were the only thing in the way. Ground them down:
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2637-2/IMG_0181.JPG
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2641-2/IMG_0182.JPG
Installed everything. Looked and felt like everything was making contact:
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2611-2/IMG_0185.JPG
This wasn't the case. It must have had just a tiny gap. My temps were just about the same as on air. In other words. Complete failure.
Back to the Dremel board:
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2619-2/IMG_0212.JPG
With a little, lot? more modification I made some clearance:
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2615-2/IMG_0211.JPG
This time I was confident that it was making full contact. Here she is installed and looking pretty:
http://photo.dateranoth.com/d/2623-2/IMG_0213.JPG
33 Degree Celsius Idle and 53 Degree Celsius Load with a 200Mhz over clock confirmed everything was finally seated properly. Woohoo!