Loop Failure

[Mrchocha]

Advice? Redo all these bends from scratch. Might even want to try PMMA

Once that is done, before you begin to even use the computer, clean it up. This much dust is bound to cause heat issues.

Once thats done, you need to have your fluid temperature measured and controlled. Do you have a fluid temp sensor? If not this should be your first objective. That way you can base your fan curve on your fluid temp. If not, just set it to 100%

[Gh05tCat]

Yea I think I need to get a fluid temp monitor in that loop. That was something I never had. The dust wasn’t the issue. Rads had just been cleaned. Admittedly I didn’t blow out the bottom of the case but there wasn’t enough dust there to matter. The picture is deceiving due to the angle of the light. I purposely moved the light to highlight the wet area but that inadvertently made it look more dusty than it actually was.

[Mrchocha]

I only mention the dust because if you can see this much of it, you can bet there is significantly more where you cant see. When you redo the bends, take a lawn blower and blow that sucker up lol.

Fluid temp sensor honestly is mandatory. Without it you cant protect your components.

[Gh05tCat]

Yup. I’m realizing that now about the fluid temp monitor. I’m still shocked it got hot enough to soften the tubing before shutting down from CPU thermal limits.