Quote Originally Posted by Chris1985 View Post
Another update...

Seems this build is doomed to fail
I've had nothing but BSOD's from the minute i installed my motherboard- and graphicsdrivers.
Appeared the Catalyst 9.5-drivers are a load of horse.

I had to go into the safe modus, to manually delete them and then revert back to 9.4's.
I'd try reinstalling 9.5 before you go blaming them full stop. I've encountered no issues whatsoever on a very similar system (see sig) - sounds like a bad install if anything.
Next thing to do is bleed the loop, get the block out and clean the loop out alltogether, because in one of the blocks there appeared to be some sort of grey residue.
Now, instead of the water being transparant, it's all grey and nasty.
Oh well, guessing that's a lesson for next time. Apart from cleaning out the reservoirs, clean out the blocks aswell.
Nasty. I always disassemble all the blocks and give them a good scrub, and make sure to flush rads out with a weak mixture of heated distilled water and white vinegar, with a final flush of just distilled, before use. Helps avoid those kinds of issues.

As for replacing the NB block, I'd recommend dropping it entirely - it's just going to add in heat-dump to your loop. Try going with an aftermarket air solution - something like an HR-05.