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Update:

Today was a fairly eventful day for my PC. The trusty guy in Brown delivered my pair of Mag3 pumps. A quick stop at a local auto parts store netted me a rather massive blower and I placed an order for a pair of rads at dangerden.com.

With about $4 worth of fittings and an hour after work I managed to slip a Mag3 in for the Johnson. While waiting for the JB weld and plumbers good to dry a quick dismantle of the Johnson yielded some interesting finds.

1) The first thing I noticed were some mineral deposits on the belly of the pump. Obvious signs I had a slow leak that was evaporating as fast as it leaked.
2) Black Powder, coated almost everything in the pump, then covered my hands and my desk.
3) The brushes were nearly gone. Just little stubs were left. I haven't taken the impeller of the shaft in order to check out the bearing.

I would of included pictures but my cheap "thanks for opening a bank account" digital camera died.

One thing I noticed about the mag3 is that it causes my monitor to flicker some. I hate to think of what its doing to everything inside the case. With luck by next Wednesday it along with the other Mag3, the blower and rads will all have a new home in a seperate watercooling box.

Results...Don't put too much weight into these simply because the etup is far from ideal. With the Johnson I has a res directly mounted to the intake, and a 3/4 inch hose running from the output to the radiator. With the mag3 as it is there are 4 fittings including a 90. Needless to say this is quite restrictive in comparison. So the numbers or at least number. My CPU temp has dropped 3C while the NB dropped 1C. I really need to find new thermal probes for my DD5.