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BladeRunner: I'm not trying to be negative as I think your idea of a disaster data base would be good for worried water-cooling virgins to check out.
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Exactly my concern, and why I started this exercise... I had seen many mixed reports of what one needed to be concerned about in setting up a system. They were all probably sincere, but each was based on the author's individual experiences. IMHO a collection of what sort of things ACTUALLY happenned to a large number of people would help to demonstrate where the priorities should be placed, and what sorts of issues are 'must do right or else' vs. what one might decide to let slide a bit. (i.e. I am building a system to operate 24/7, which means often unattended. I arguably need a better quality pump, and more fault detection than a gamer who only has the system on when sitting in front of it. OTOH, we both need to use good quality tubing and good sealing technique when building our systems.)
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It however needs to be based in reality to be valid, and although what you say about the 11 described failures out of 16 reported pump leaks or failures maybe true, when displayed as a poll like that doesn't tell the story and could lead to people thinking pumps are a real problem part, (which they are not if you accept it is the heart of the system, and buy & use accordingly).
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True, and it is worth noting that while there were only two "didn't plug in" direct cause user errors, one could argue that the rest were indirect errors - The leaking pumps were cheap pumps that the user over-torqued fittings on and cracked. The induced failures were either bad material choices, or operator error in a different area. Even the two total failures were arguably the result of a case supplier using a poor choice of pump.
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I think there is mileage in something useful though & wonder if Joe & the Pro- cooling team could give any input to a way to do this?
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Good thought, any ideas about the best way to approach them with the idea? (I have a great idea for a title - 'Water Cooling without Diapers' with a photo of a mobo sticking out of a diaper.... ;D )
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I still stand by my statement that most of the problems are caused by the user in some way, and this is something anyone thinking of water-cooling should take on board first.
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Agreed, and it should be a prime focus of the survey / articles. Probably something to the effect of 'these are the most common USER INDUCED problems, and how to best avoid them.
Agreed, certainly a wonderful case study of how to do things wrong. While he certainly appears to be learning, and his latest setup is a BIG improvement over his first effort, I still see a lot of problems with it. One of the biggest is probably that he is still engaged in that evil 'mixing of metals' practice. He got rid of the copper pipes, but nothing in the article suggested he wasn't still using the copper rad, not to mention those brass barbs sticking out of the aluminum block.
I would suggest that he should consider signing up with 'Silicone Abusers Anonymous' - There is a place for sealants during assembly of things like pipe threads, and possibly as 'insurance' when fitting a hose to a barb or the like; but IMNSHO globbing sealant onto an existing leak is an abuse of the technique which might buy a bit of time but is fundamentally another leak waiting to happen.
With the exception of sealing fitting threads and other APPROPRIATE applications, if your system isn't leak free without sealants you have fundamental problems that no amount of external sealant application will solve long term!