T3 reservoir cracking?

Yeah, I've got mine basically sitting on my DVD drive with the screws just tight enough to stop vibration (used the anti-vibration rubbers it came with).

Ugh, I really wish I had seen this before I bought. It sounds like the issue isn't with EVERY res, but now I'm going to be paranoid forever.

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Originally Posted by JASSAF

Working acrylic instead of copper: the distance from free edge to the hole can not be equal or similar. I am not a designer, my profession is a doctor: but by logic I have deduced that there must be good wall thickness around the hole .... and in the case of tifffon: not only supports the weight of water, the weight of the pump, the vibration produced and also the strength of the screw: too many variables for a very thin wall.

by looking at the next picture, there plenty of room for a thicker wall in the place of damage.
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/2239/primo1.jpg

I have reviewed several forums and the 99% of damage occurs in the same place, in this forum i found a report from kaytaro on 07/26/2009: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=476

deffinetly the cooling liquid is not the problem, the design is! :mad: and primochill as responsable has not made any announcements.:shrug:

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That's the same conclusion I arrived to earlier.
Basically some design flaws that put way too much emphasis on good build materials. You need to design it over-spec.

Especially considering many people who bought these overclock their PCs to 80-90 deg C. How warm do you think the water is going to be in several hours?

One note though,
There's several reports on the cracks NOT around the screwholes though.
I'm not too sure what to make of it.
It is possible many got some alcohol / glycol contamination from old components... I'm just not sure contaminants in a 'leftover' quantity and concentration would have such drastic effect.

I'm getting in the 'paranoid' bandwagon here...
So worried that a leak would ruin the rest of my components... that includes an extreme i7 intel proc...

Anyone got any word on the new T3?

sent a message to brian and the last reply he siad is
that they are doing there best to bring it back to the market

so that´s my response from primochill and it all most past 3 months without nothing
and went back to air and I´m so so ................. WTF!!!!

mine is cracked on the pump bracket holding screws; one of them obviously is cracked enough to leak air into the reservoir. no cracks on the case mounting screws that i can see.

distilled water only here so it's not coolant.

edit:

as i look at the reservoir from the front, it's the top right hand screw that's cracked. if you look at the thickness of plastic in that corner between the 2 adjacent screw threads (i.e. the pump fixing screw and the case fixing screw) there's less plastic there than the bottom right one. mine has cracked across that corner, possibly because the plastic is thin compared to the one below it?

edit2:

scratch that. they've both cracked into the adjacent case screw threads.