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rvcjew said:

That sucks, glad you have a plan to recifty it. Lesson learned I'm sure.

Yes the lesson is don't rush and make mistakes. I believe water cooling is safe if you take your time, plan and work carefully. It does require patience.

Kol12 said:

Yes the lesson is don't rush and make mistakes. I believe water cooling is safe if you take your time, plan and work carefully. It does require patience.

Most certainly, though I meant more on the thinking it was dry from just a hair dryer. Better to leave it for a few days. Hard to do though if it's your production machine.

rvcjew said:

Most certainly, though I meant more on the thinking it was dry from just a hair dryer. Better to leave it for a few days. Hard to do though if it's your production machine.

You are right, I should have drained and stripped everything out the first time. I shouldn't have taken the chance thinking it was dry enough. It's never happened to me before and I panicked. Hard lesson learnt. I've been planning endlessly the last three weeks to ensure this won't happen again, it can't happen again.

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
So what leaked cpu cooler or hosing to it or some where else ?

EK has some pretty inconsistent block assembly I've noticed
CPU block has 4 freaking screws lol and none are the same torque
GPU blocks no different except more screw and torque inconsistencies which nearly leaked on me I saw fluid outside the gasket fortunately before it really messed things up.

EK does also have weird fitting and soft hosing sizes that do not match
Most both hosing and fitting match
10-13/ 10-16..
3/8-1/2/ 3/8-5/8..

EK not so much.

No leak. When I was draining the loop I must have left the reservoir fill cap loose. I tipped the case backwards a whole 90 degrees, the res cap fell out and about 5ml of liquid at the very bottom on the res went splashing over the motherboard. I think it went splashing towards the back of the motherboard and when I tipped the case back it probably ran down. The Mayhem's X1 coolant I used is supposed to be non conductive but apparently caused damage in this case. I noticed it leaves a sticky residue and doesn't dry quickly.

The problem is that liquid went under the motherboard I/O cover and that was not discovered until I removed the motherboard from the case and unscrewed the I/O cover off the board. As rvcjew said I should have dried everything longer before powering up again.

From what I'm seeing and hearing EK do have some QC issues. A lot of their fittings use Metric tools.

My pump died a couple of weeks back so I took the opportunity to upgrade a few other bits.

CPU block replaced with EK RGB Velocity CPU Block.
Pump replaced with EKWB 140 D5 RGB
Radiator fans replaced with Corsair LL120 RGB 120mm Dual Light fans

System looks really nice John, but...?
Do you always run your RGB on Unicorn puke

Absolutely!!!!

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