damric

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

W1ck3d at techpowerup has a GTX 980 he is selling, not advertised though. He had two in SLI and he sold me one for $150 a couple weeks ago. High end EVGA ACX and excellent condition.

If I could get my hands on some Rx 6800s I'd sell my Vegas.

ooh I'm gaining with my army of little hardwares I wonder if I'll catch pio

I have 4 computers crunching now. I had to leave a couple cores and integrated graphics idle for my kids to do schoolwork. My son and I configured a ghetto compute rig from spare parts in about 90 minutes this morning. I know I got a late start (time zone), but I'm trying hard to get some sort of prize lol. This is exciting, my son picked covid-19, my wife picked alzhemers, and we're running general on the two others. I have one more weak quadro (like 8400 chipset lol) to throw in later after my kids get done with school.

You guys have some compute beast machines! I'm trying my hardest to get all possible cards in the house online. So far: 3 Ryzens, 2 Vega (56+64), GTX 980, HD 7850. About to try and get another HD 7850 and an R3 350 up and running too lol.

I threw in an HD 7850 and GTX 980, as well as another Ryzen. I might be able to get 1 more rig up tomorrow

Ok I got two CPUs and two Vega cards up and folding. I'll see about getting another CPU and Polaris folding later after my kid logs off from school.

Get a cheap 90 degree 24-pin motherboard adapter so that it doesn't crush your cables.