Originally Posted by
[XC] Kayin
Weapon, no offense intended. Took me a second to realize who you were, you're another DIYer like me. Just better at the water.
I know and you know that WC can be quite a cheap enterprise. However, what we can do with heatercores, pond pumps and copper slabs there are many people who will not best with huge money spent in big kits. That's why I said people. I idn't point it at you, and I'm genuinely sorry if I have offended. In that, at least, I feel like I have a foot in my mouth.
But, I think there's a way to make ANYTHING better. Sometimes, you're right, it really is to start over, but there are times (I've dealt with them before, I can say) when someone is either sentimentally attached to a part, or the budget is practically gone. I remember dealing with a Gen1 Aquagate. There's a POS for ya. 1/4" tubing, crappy block (all copper) and an Al 80mm rad/res combo. Turns out the whole thing is 3/8" on the insides, changeover to that and a fan change got better temps, adding in a Koolance 2x120 rad did even better. The CM fluid, I must say, was a fantastic anticorrosive. To this day (and it still survives, running) it's pretty much pristine.
Ask my opinion, and I'll shoot straight. Ask for my help, and I'll do anything I can to re-engineer it into something useful while you save cash. Always been that way.