Man that kinda sucks... however they're a couple of things that really bugged me in your whole post.

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The Apogee GTX I'll be attempting to rma shortly.
Was it actually something wrong with the GTX, because it sounds like you're putting all the blame on the coolant, or maybe the simple fact your coolant didn't have any anti-corrosion to avoid this... Either way you shouldn't really be RMA'ing but heh, ethics differ (as we saw in the RMA ethics thread).

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On a serious note I spoke to both Gabe and Michelle at Swiftech today and you definitely want to speak only with Michelle as Gabe will bend your ear with his facts and figures and "we are engineers" crap talk forever it seemed like. Gabe also insisted that I had been doing something wrong with my Apogee GTX since lapping it dropped my temps....Interesting point there as lapping it dropped my cpu temps at load by 15c! The "bowing" concept he is working with would be great if you didn't bow the hell out of your board by the time you got the block tight enough to achieve proper contact.

A positive to this is that Michelle said she would ship a new top for my Apogee GTX today. The downside is that they want me to ship my old top to them. WTF for ? I could send them a pic that would be quite obvious but Gabe apparently wouldn't believe it and insisted that I should go look at what "real systems" are like over at XS....Which is where I would supposedly find that my case is incredible isolated. I just Google'd Apogee GTX corrosion instead and immediately came up with a ton of threads on XS where people had the exact same problem I did!
More importantly, this bit just made me cringe... I mean, where do I start?

15C temp drop from lapping? Yeah right, did you forget to mention that between unlapped and lapped you also changed from using chewing-gum to MX2 as thermal paste?

When you RMA or ask for a replacement it's standard procedure to ship the old one back, some companies will let you ship back the old one after the receive the new one but most go as far as wanting the old one first, it's the price you have to pay to have stuff fixed for free.



Bottom line, I feel for you, really, what happened to you sucks, but don't act like a 13 year old about it