Quote Originally Posted by phantomferrari View Post
i have a question about the whole turning the pump off to burn it in. wouldnt it be easier and a little safer just to overvolt the cpu a bit, run the pump at its lowest possible voltage then run occt? to me that seems less scary
The water cant be moving at all. The goal is to have IHS/waterblock interface temp at >70C for reflow to occur (inidigo melts according to their site at 70C, I would thought a little higher, but just read it). With water cooling/flowing a gradient higher than 30C will exist from core to IHS/waterblock, so even if core temp = 100C, indigo wont reflow. So pump has to be off, so gradient from core to IHS/waterblock is small enough to allow high enough temp.

Same reason you should not get reflow while loading your cpu to 100C, as long as you are cooling cpu.