Quote Originally Posted by BoxGods View Post
T3 failure rates were climbing up close to 5% -- pretty good for low volume production...unless your one of the unlucky guys in that 5% (and unacceptable in my opinion for water cooling parts). I was unable to repeat the cracking issue here in my shop even over torquing the pump mounting screws by 25% which is pretty hard to do. I COULD get them to crack with Ethylene Glycol fluids but only two of the 5 parts I destroyed cracked at the inserts for pump mounting which seems to be where most failures are happening, and ALL the glycol added test samples cracked all over the rez, not localized just at the screw inserts. My unofficial testing wasn't uber scientific of course but I have parts to burn and I am pretty good at breaking stuff.
Hey BoxGods, how long did you leave the test subjects torqued? When I received my Typhoon 3 it was perfect, not a crack in sight at any inserts. It wasn't until a month later when I had to work on my system did I notice there was an issue. I don't think it's an issue you will see instantly, even when over-torquing the screws, but rather by the stress of torque over time.