Can anyone rate the primochill Typhoon III?

[Alexandr0s]

NaeKuh, are those 3 DDC's in your loop? I knew you were DDC crazy, but that crazy ?

Also, where are the zipties ?

Edit: NVM, after taking a better look I noticed the 12 bright orange zipties

[DarthBeavis]

Im honestly surprised so far. my replacement t3 has been working for months now... mabey i should take a closer look

oh, they can operate without any failures if you follow last part of the installation directions:

After tightening the mounting screws and filling the system, sacrifice a small mammal or your first born child to the ancient god Baal to ensure you will have no leaks. If you choose to sacrifice a kitten you will be blessed with 10 C lower temps on average.

[Bei Fei]

oh, they can operate without any failures if you follow last part of the installation directions:

After tightening the mounting screws and filling the system, sacrifice a small mammal or your first born child to the ancient god Baal to ensure you will have no leaks. If you choose to sacrifice a kitten you will be blessed with 10 C lower temps on average.

I was wondering why my temps were so low. My wife sure misses the cat....

[jetroho]

a moment of silence for the cat...............thats enough , rezoom the noise

[Alexandr0s]

oh, they can operate without any failures if you follow last part of the installation directions:

After tightening the mounting screws and filling the system, sacrifice a small mammal or your first born child to the ancient god Baal to ensure you will have no leaks. If you choose to sacrifice a kitten you will be blessed with 10 C lower temps on average.

Aw dang, a small mammal works too ?! Oh, btw, did it need to be my first born ?

[eppopipe]

aww not the kitty :3
Anybody got any more news about the XSPC D5 bayres?

[Alexandr0s]

I think after the T3's disaster a lot of people are reluctant to try out another D5 pump/bayres. I haven't heard anything about it and I don't even know how many people here have it.

[Dreddy71]

i guess there was a good reason to be happy about running over that dead animal on the street, well other than knowing if it was still alive, the doc at the animal hospital would have tried to save it, and id have to take care of another animal with disabilities. who thought it would make my system leek free? and years after the fact too

[UrbanSmooth]

Geez, why do you guys run threads into the ground like this? LOL!

[Gone Cruising]

@DarthBeavis, sir you were right. I installed both my Typhoon III's , was about to fill both loops when I noticed cracks aroung the front fill caps. I pulled out both reservoirs and there they were, along with two more cracks in the back plug's. I pulled the pumps out and one pump mount had a nice big crack. Only use was for one hour testing a week ago and they sat since then and developed the cracks.

Pic's:

[the finisher]

I would never trust any T-3.
You never know what will happen, or when.

I don't care anymore, got burned, moving on.

[Gone Cruising]

Looks like they discontinued making them in May due to issues.

[tomb18]

Are other primochill reservoirs reliable?
And why has my acrylic swiftech reservoir been running for 3 years + with no issues using ethylene glycol?

[DTR]

I would never trust any T-3.
You never know what will happen, or when.

I don't care anymore, got burned, moving on.

I can't blame you - the arclyic turned out to be , but like the phoenix, I'm hoping the delrin version rises out of the flames.

I'm supposed to have one shortly, so we'll see how that goes shortly. While I can't help but be optimistic as hell, I hope it doesn't turn out to be a 'I told you so party'.

[stevecs]

I've always wondered why pretty much all these 'enthusiast' water cooling places use things like thin acetate; Plexiglas or whatnot. When there is perfectly good clear schedule 80 PVC pipe available that will take a thread and is, heaven forbid, DESIGNED to hold liquids (both simple like water as well as caustic ones). And the cost is cheap, just takes the jig to drill the holes.

[the finisher]

Or this stuff

Polycarbonate gets my vote...this video always amuses and impresses me..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsls5ZPCUnE

Also the more POM parts I get the more I like the stuff, it's apparently a musical material as well. Currently used in the manufacture of Flutes, and Bag Pipes and the like.
Very interesting:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyoxymethylene_plastic

I use to like the colorful acrylic designed products. I'm all about copper/nickel and black now. No more acrylic, or any blow-mold plastic parts for me ever again.

[DTR]

LOL.... Just to reinforce the arcylic vs delrin / polycarbonate:

Arcylic skylight vs hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24sf4...eature=related

Delrin skylight vs hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ8G0...eature=related


I'm curious if anyone has an answer as to why anyone would even use arcylic today, because there are a number of companies still doing this.

[SkItZo]

I like this vid about polycarbonate's durability more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc2K0...eature=related

[Alexandr0s]

I'm curious if anyone has an answer as to why anyone would even use arcylic today, because there are a number of companies still doing this.

Saving production costs.

[stevecs]

And even though those videos look interesting, they are actually not relavent. The primary function is to hold liquid here with a various level of low caustic properties; in a ph range of say 5 - 11; does not lower structural integrity with alcohols (methanol; glycol; isopropyl et al); viscosity increaser (oils; long-chain polymers) and various oxidation/reduction inhibitors (sulfite's et al); plus anti bacterial agents (silver/copper but there are many others); and a PSI range of say <50PSI.

What I find strange is that all of these 'obstacles' have been solved in labs and process industries for ages. Granted the added idea of 'being clear to see what's going on' is relatively new but there was this cool thing called GLASS that did a wonderful job over the years.

[DarthBeavis]

And even though those videos look interesting, they are actually not relavent. The primary function is to hold liquid here with a various level of low caustic properties; in a ph range of say 5 - 11; does not lower structural integrity with alcohols (methanol; glycol; isopropyl et al); viscosity increaser (oils; long-chain polymers) and various oxidation/reduction inhibitors (sulfite's et al); plus anti bacterial agents (silver/copper but there are many others); and a PSI range of say <50PSI.

What I find strange is that all of these 'obstacles' have been solved in labs and process industries for ages. Granted the added idea of 'being clear to see what's going on' is relatively new but there was this cool thing called GLASS that did a wonderful job over the years.

but then people would say 'man that looks like glass' which could be misheard for 'man that looks like ass' thus starting many a geek rage fight

[stevecs]

but then people would say 'man that looks like glass' which could be misheard for 'man that looks like ass' thus starting many a geek rage fight

I don't know. I suppose it's possible to confuse the two:

http://media.picfor.me/001CBB7/881_5...omen_large.jpg

and

http://www.thechaingang.com/images/n...ubes-large.JPG

especially around here.

[UrbanSmooth]

Uhm...

[DarthBeavis]

Uhm...

is the ass half full or half empty?

[Alexandr0s]

Lol, I'm going to leave this thread now before it gets any weirder . Though I have to say that looks like a nice piece of glass .