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flu1d · 06-19-2004, 07:19 PM

Hey guys, just had the heart attack of my life.

I just disassembled my rig because I'm putting in an Athlon64 3000+ plugged into an MSI K8N Neo Platinum. Well, when I set up my system last time I was overly heavy on the dye because I didn't know how much to use, so I used a lot, I also had some Water Wetter in with the distilled water. Now, when I disassembled my rig just now, I found dye on the back (non fan side) of my graphics card. Seems that my system must have had a slow leak from the tubing connection to the water block (found evidence suggesting this). Somehow, my graphics card didn't get killed, how I don't know... in any case my two questions are this:

1. How do I get the crap off my graphics card, it's a thick pasty type consistency, or do I figure since it didn't kill it when it was wet, it's fine now that it's dry, so don't fret.

2. This is the real question. How in the heck do I get a good seal out of my system. This wasn't the first seal problem I've had. I originally had a problem with a resevoir and even this time it initially had a slow leak and kind of stopped on it's own after a couple fo days of me tearing my hair out. for connections I use hose clamps over hose barbs, no fancy, easy break, connections. I guess I just have to really really ream down on the things, I'm always concerned about splitting the tubing. Also, all the acrylic resevoirs I have found out on the market tend to have nylon hose barbs, and I can never seem to get these things to seal to the acrylic, I used teflon tape this past time and still had a minor leak at the beginning that was really only sealed by the dye and water wetter in the system drying when exposed to air. I tightened down the hose barbs to the point where I was starting to get surface cracks in the acrylic. How do you guys seal your systems? I never seam to hear about people having problems with this sort of thing.

06-19-2004, 07:19 PM	#1
flu1d Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 4	Sealing up the system Hey guys, just had the heart attack of my life. I just disassembled my rig because I'm putting in an Athlon64 3000+ plugged into an MSI K8N Neo Platinum. Well, when I set up my system last time I was overly heavy on the dye because I didn't know how much to use, so I used a lot, I also had some Water Wetter in with the distilled water. Now, when I disassembled my rig just now, I found dye on the back (non fan side) of my graphics card. Seems that my system must have had a slow leak from the tubing connection to the water block (found evidence suggesting this). Somehow, my graphics card didn't get killed, how I don't know... in any case my two questions are this: 1. How do I get the crap off my graphics card, it's a thick pasty type consistency, or do I figure since it didn't kill it when it was wet, it's fine now that it's dry, so don't fret. 2. This is the real question. How in the heck do I get a good seal out of my system. This wasn't the first seal problem I've had. I originally had a problem with a resevoir and even this time it initially had a slow leak and kind of stopped on it's own after a couple fo days of me tearing my hair out. for connections I use hose clamps over hose barbs, no fancy, easy break, connections. I guess I just have to really really ream down on the things, I'm always concerned about splitting the tubing. Also, all the acrylic resevoirs I have found out on the market tend to have nylon hose barbs, and I can never seem to get these things to seal to the acrylic, I used teflon tape this past time and still had a minor leak at the beginning that was really only sealed by the dye and water wetter in the system drying when exposed to air. I tightened down the hose barbs to the point where I was starting to get surface cracks in the acrylic. How do you guys seal your systems? I never seam to hear about people having problems with this sort of thing.