Quote Originally Posted by S3RV0 View Post
I disagree with the blame for XSPC tops. I have the same top running flawlessly with my two DDC 3.2's.

I helped Jeff put his rig together and where I'm using a MM U2-UFO and two lower power pumps with plenty of air flow, Jeff is using two DDC 3.25's in a Corsair case with only about .5 inches of breathing room between the bottom of his pump and the top of his optical drive.

I personally wired his pumps and hooked them up and they had been running fine for a few months. I think the pumps didn't have enough breathing room and active air flow, got too hot and burnt out.

I had been using the XSPC restop for over a year and have recently switched to the XSPC dual res for a cleaner installation and have zero issues. I think blaming the tops without any direct evidence is a bit hasty.
Not hasty at all, Just do a search for dead DDC topics and you'll see rather quickly that at least 95% of them were using a XSPC top of some kind. I'm not saying every XSPC top is a pump killer but, a lot of them are. . .especially the newer batches.