not occasionally

It's watercooling so hell yes you need water in the system.

Once the system is primed and if you keep the res cover closed tight, water doesn't evaporate too much. With a larger res, you can possibly top up water once a year but every few months would be a more reasonable estimate

maintanance is high in this eh?... So If I have a budget of 3k for a computer with water cooling systems ..Can I get one?

i think u can get system for 2.5k,the balance you can do watercooling like mine(check my work log)but u cant get nice barb,fitting,compresion,the tubing just do the job,but u need to add another RM30 for uv bye with distile water.to make color2..unless u want to run with plain water.see all sifu here their set up like mad,so nice..maintainance u just take care the water,make sure install tubing properly to prevent it leak.but for me there is no maintaince for long period if your installation good.but for me there is no maintainance but only got poison to upgrade,shiny2 barb,fitting lah,uv tubing,change color.want to do gc loop also..

This post has been edited by naminakata87: Jan 14 2012, 03:43 AM

3k is more than enough.
when it comes to topup, i think ur maintenance time is shorter than the refill time .

so, basically u'll be cleaning ur system before u topup ^^,

correct.. i never topup. i just flush out clean and refill with distilled water of coz.. thats the benefit using distilled water. its cheap hehehe..

opened the block and clean it
still the same
the heck im gonna used it anyway

no corrosion, should be fine.
dye stain is more worrying...

why only ek facing this problem?? are they trying to cut corners??

EK's old nickel plating (non-EN) method was claimed to have too thin nickel layer to provide adhesion on the copper layer. But it's solved with the new EN version so when u buy any EK nickel-plated wb make sure that u grab this EN. Anyway, I don't have this nickel flaking problem on my non-EN wbs though. HF + 2x FC-580GTX+ + MIVE block + Dom RAM block all plexi+Ni all okay.

well i guess ek shud know before they implemented the thin layer type. maybe that time they thought they can cut corners and get more profit from it. but then problems arised lol.. anyway thanks for the info bro

@owikh84

what does the EN denotes ?
noticed those on new products .

EN: Electroless Nickel Plating

ayam too lazy to do the second Loop
arghhh

EN meant the new plating process but still EK doesnt improve on the finishing

u can still see and feel the groove mark

* warning huge pics

Swiftech GTX Epic Galvanic Corrosion



This post has been edited by owikh84: Jan 16 2012, 05:24 PM

alamak.. this happened after how long? scary !!

What the f*** happened ?!

tat is for 478 socket

that pic make me wasted 30mins ...
i dissemble my cpu block to check lol .....