Cooling Pete's Watercooling log/how-to. UPDATE: UPGRADES!!!

Well, I've managed to reposistion the fittings, and now it's hardly leaking at all, I'm going to keep an eye on it before I fully fill the loop

 

Urg, now I have another leak, with a 45 degree connector, and worst thing is it's on my CPU block, so my loop is basically full now...

Most annoying. Any ideas for an easy fix? it's only very slow leak...

 

Blu- tac ?

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Would ruin the prettiness...

I just emptied the loop and removed the connector. Just refilling now, hopefully it works ok this time...

 

No leaks so far, but I've noticed something odd. When I turn the pump on there's a massive pressure drop in the res, the fluid drops about 4cm, but when I turn it off the pressure is equalised... This never used to happen...

 

For the leaks, PTFE tape (or whatever it's called)? as for the pressure drop, is this with the loop fully bled?

 

Thats what I used on the one on my res

I'm in the process of bleeding it. I assume theres a air pocket somewhere thats compressing when I turn the pump on, so it does it with the D5 set to 1, just not as badly.

 

I've also got a water drop of 20ml in the res in the system in my sig and I've guessed there's an airlock somewhere in one of my rads. It's been doing it for a while and hasn't affected temps as far as I can tell but it's frustrating as although it gradually lessened it didn't go away completely even after a few weeks. This is the only system that's been affected even though I've used inverted rads with the inlet/oulet at the bottom on other PCs.

PTFE tape won't help if the leak is at the rotary joint and there is the risk of tiny pieces clogging up the block.

 

Yeh, that's what I was thinking, so I'm going to have to flip my machine, easier said than done...

I only used the ptfe tape where it was leaking round my adapter. I had to ditch one of the rotary's as there's no way of fixing it...

 

Spot on with trapped air pocket.

Seeing how you've got pretty long runs of tubing connecting to you rad you could remove the rad from the case and tilt so the connectors are facing upward. Considering the huge ****er you got for a case it's probably the easiest way of purging the air, and definitely the most effective.

Also, I think you could ditch the 45er from the cpu block completely and run the tubing from straight connector?

 

Good thought with the rad, onle problem is all the fans are wired up round the back.

That 45 degree connector is fine, so it's not a promlem

 

Leaking is basically gone now Plus I bled a massive air pocket (had to unscrew the rad) which has basically fixed the weird pressure problem. My cpu block hisses though :S I'm going to stress test it now for several hours

Another weird thing, when I turn the pump off the release of pressure causes the rad to make metal flexing noises...

 

I'm finally happy that it's all running as it should. I think there's air in the CPU block, but I can't fight it out, so hopefully it wont affect temps too badly...

I'll take some nice night pics later

 

ooooohhhh this will make me jealous

 

If it works

 

I have my fingers crossed :|

 

System is up and running

 

=]

 

I'll get some pics up tomorrow

 

Here are some pics













I'm using a Canon PowerShot A495, any tips on better night shots?