Gosh...I've just ghetto-fied my rig even more!!!

At least the PWM is at a sub 40C idle and 46C load now... without the extra air, it went all the way up to 61C during gaming *sigh*

Sweet,

nice setup sniper....


my tubings are still long, still not yet decided on where to
fix my WC setup permanently... huhu.....

Try Danger Den Koosah...

http://www.dangerdenstore.com/product.php?...1&cat=48&page=1

wah thats one damn expensive water block

i found THIS

btw i dont think Danger Den Koosah can be sandwich in the space between the 2 pcb

Blardy hell.... my Storm cracked..yup...the acetal cracked!!!

VGA died...burned kau kau.

Pics to follow later.

How be like that? Can tell story to us?

sorry for your VGA
ayo...storm also can crack aa. quick, take some pic and tell us the full story.
i thought this expensive block is invincible

Anyway...the story is.... I just came back about an hour ago and the monitor show no VGA signal.

First thought that came to mind was....leakage.

Then I found some wetness on the VGA..... after taking out everything. Tubings were perfectly clamped...pumps working.... taking apart the Storm, there's nothing groovy inside.

It just cracked. Heck, I didn't even over tighten the darn barbs. Next time I'll invest in some of those shorter stainless steel barbs instead.

Edit: Now tengah Operation Remove Burnmark from VGA.... nicely goreng'ed sial.

Here we are:



This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Jun 20 2006, 09:45 PM

OMG!!! never seen a Storm crack before. i think most people use those plastic barbs that came with block. maybe your block got some manufacturing defects that causes it to crack. any hope for RMAing the block???

btw...i know why you are removing the burnmark on your VGA

Holy crapperoo Sniper, ure luck has really been awesomely bad of late. Was water still circulating in the loop when u got back? Coz the MCP350 is very sensitive to running dry. The manual says DO NOT RUN DRY. If it was running on dry loop then u better gif the pump a good check too.

Ain't the block that I'm worried about...can easily get a replacement. Yeah it's still expensive but wtf... Geezzz...this "could" be the 2nd vga card I killed in a row

Ain't the pump dood.... the whole system still perfectly functional. Everything ok....I was curious where the leak came from actually and only saw the crack when I took out everything.
And nope....didn't overtighten and nope...it was perfectly crack-less when I installed it.
Such is the mystery of computing.

I've read stories about swiftech's and TDX acetal before, thats why I use copper top waterblocks.

Really bad luck.

Holy shit.Never thought of cracking block.Anyway what ya going to do with that block?

Moral of the story: Leak test the buggers before hooking em up. You never know. My old Maze 4 was leaking rat's piss after reassembly

dude..show pix of ur burned vga man...wanna see how bad it is!!

n real sorry for ur 'loss' wei....

omg, sniper can your rig still run??? really sorry to hear bout it...

good thing i didnt move to water cooling yet..haha....

This post has been edited by sidewinderz: Jun 21 2006, 08:30 AM

True also.... acrylic cracks...acetal pun crack ...I need a titanium top di.

No idea man...I don't think anybody makes aftermarket tops for storms yet.

Moral of the story lagi... boss... everything is by the book lar. Leak tested and triple checked everything.

It just freakin cracked by itself.. so the moral of the story: Storm users... periodically check your block.


Pretty damn bad ler....the flipside of the gpu hangus sial. Didn't take pictures lar.. spent like 2 hours rubbing to clean it.

Waddaya think of this block? Same price as the storm...hate the 3 barb though.





This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Jun 21 2006, 09:48 AM

Where do you get your water cooling gear? Got local source besides forum members? (not wc kit)