damric

She's awesome. She's been doing IT since she was 8 years old with her father and now works for AIRBUS as senior support engineer.. She's really strong with networking and good with hardware too, but she lets me build and tweak all her stuff for her because to her that's work and not fun. She's also the biggest gamer in the house. This is her playing last night some AC Odyssey showing off her computer.

Awww here we go. You read the thread this far, so you have no life. Now watch the videos until your brain turns to dust or this blows up my computer. We can only hope that it will explode so it will spare us from anymore posts in this thread. No leak but it either wasn't really primed or was a weak mount, but as you see a little suck and spit got it going great Oh wow 21.4% Core OC 30.0% VRAM OC (Unlocked AB Slider Max'd) ~ 37C Load after steady state reached with the MAX OC. Flimsy Stock cooler was almost always 88C when we were folding at stock clocks.

Well it didn't lose any water overnight. I siliconed the outside rims twice more. This pump/block is like a cursed item I cannot rid myself. I keep finding myself compelled to mess with it. I found just the right crusty old fan to go on the radiator, and old original sickleflow. I need to let this thermal adhesive dry a little longer on these aluminum chunks, otherwise it's ready to test. Everything is tight asf with zip ties. Oh one finishing touch!

Well it didn't lose any water overnight. I siliconed the outside rims twice more. This pump/block is like a cursed item I cannot rid myself. I keep finding myself compelled to mess with it. I found just the right crusty old fan to go on the radiator, and old original sickleflow. I need to let this thermal adhesive dry a little longer on these aluminum chunks, otherwise it's ready to test. Everything is tight asf with zip ties.

How are you supposed to mount this block? Who cares it's $5!

My wife laughing at your case badges on your panel. Love it!

They had me a "free gift for new user" if you spend at least $1. Reminds me of aliexpress.

Great I fell down the banggood rabbit hole!

Ooh I've been eyeing a new SuperFlower Leadex III ever since they started selling on newegg!

Funny you said that. While we were leak testing, I was trying out my new grinder and blade on some old chipset heatsinks just for that purpose. My dumbass burned myself just enough to hurt like hell when I touched the heatsink after I cut it. My brain was like "don't touch it" and the tips of my fingers were like "shut up brain" lol. That was while we were thinking about still mounting it on a bobo graphics card. Now that we reset the project, we decided to have that radiator cool a bobo CPU instead. I ordered a $20 waterblock on ebay direct from China...what could go wrong! Also a curiously cheap $22 pump from PPCs, OMG what am I thinking?

Ok officially done investing anymore time into that pump-block. It leaked again after about 3 hours. I told my son I'll just get him a cheap pump and universal block if he wants to play around with that copper radiator. It's a very slow leak, so slow that I'm still using it to flush that radiator. I'm curious so I marked the water level on the "reservoir" and I'll check it in the morning to see exactly how much was lost.

Alright I ran around to various hardware stores, auto parts places, kitchen faucet repair shops, hose and sprinkler repair places, ect until I found several O-rings to try on the pump and some rubber grommets and small O-rings for the tubes. I'm putting this back together now and I got to let the sealant dry. I didn't use as much sealant this time and was very careful with it. I only spent maybe less than $10 on this project.

That was awesome

I'm very excited. I'll be taping out exactly where my mounting will go over the next couple days. This pump might have to go outside as well.

I just took it apart again and cleaned all the silicone out I put in there yesterday. It's possible that a piece of whatever was just blocking it up or something because now it spins once again. There's one O-ring, and I think that's the problem with it leaking despite me stuffing it with silicone as best I could. I'm hesitant to use my pipe putty, but I do have some Flex Seal. I might try that tomorrow. The good news is all the rest of my real water cooling parts arrived today from PPCs. All I'm missing is that big ass radiator that Avacado will hopefully be shipping out this weekend. I opened the box of that dual D5. That thing is HUGE! No wonder it was so expensive. It looks like it could pump a swimming pool.

Oh no, I think it's given up the ghost. It started the tiniest of leaks about an hour or so into the acid flush, so I shut it down, wiped up the tiny droplets, and then it wouldn't start again. I'm guessing it leaked internally into the transformer or something. I'm going to take it back part and let it dry out but I'm pretty sure that pump is toast lol. It was a fun little project, but it never did see it's way back to cooling anything. The copper radiator I might do something with at a later date, who knows.

Whelp, client is borked on my main PC. I had to restart PC, now says "connecting to client" forever Edit: crisis averted, connected again but looks like I lost my progress on whatever it was doing before booo

I actually ordered two of those 5 pack P120 PSTs a few days ago for my big big water project involving a 1080 rad from Avacado. I was very impressed with them after I did the IceGiant testing. The acid flush has barely started and there is already a huge piece of trash I see flying through the loop, so something broke loose just from chemical shock. We decided we're going to pour boiling water through the rad fins to thermally shock it, then mechanically agitate it, perhaps with padded hammer blows. Then flush with distilled water again.

Am I calculating this correctly that there is about < 8 hours left of running the wheels off my rigs for the contest? I'm going to keep folding for the team, just backed off to a bit more reasonable for wear and tear.

It didn't leak while running overnight so I think I'm going to flush it really good now. I'm guessing that there must be a really hard crust like you said (we call that a protective oxide layer in the nuclear reactor world). I'm thinking maybe boiling water, acetic acid, shaking, ect, but I'm not going as far as the HCl route. We're thinking of mounting this on one of our junker graphics cards to see how well it does. My teenage son is very involved in this project, and stuff like this is like a science lab for him. He came up with using the mason jar as a reservoir for me yesterday. The kid has a mechanical mind of how things work, always borrowing my tools and electrical test equipment.

Thank you. I got a late start between time zone difference and the time it took me to set up once I realized the even was happening lol. Both my teenage son and daughter are now very interested in folding because of this event. If we win RAM or PSU, we will install it in a dedicated folding rig we are currently building. I managed to snag a Ryzen 1200 for $50 off of ebay last night. Looking for a motherboard now.

Funny your fluids were way more gross. The fluid that came out of this was pretty clear. I didn't save it though. Ok we decided it would be easier to leak test it over the paper towel if we dyed the water with easter egg dye. Afterwards I read the side of the box, and the main ingredient is... propylene glycol?

If you want a good laugh, go look at my redneck project video

What could go wrong lol