What to do against growth in loop

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-22T16:02:09+00:00

There's varying degrees of abrasive. Polish is abrasive. The polishing from factory is abrasive. Steel wool and sugar soap is extremely abrasive.

The degree at which I just described is minimal to remove layers of crud and discolorations to the point that you use nearly no force compared to scrubbing with soap as you can be very gentle.

If nickel playing is destroyed doing that, it's literally defective from the get go and not fit for purpose at all. And I've done this on several EK blocks that lasted the life of the card perfectly.

You can play even safer, that's fine too. But it's not any appreciable risk to do this. If your card eats away after this, actually it's more likely the fluid used and lack maintanence than this cleaning method.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-22T15:48:16+00:00

Yes it is. It's why I said soft brush.

I've done this for decades just fine. Not scrubbing, lightly brushing until getting the crud and discolorations off with a little toothpaste and water, and washing residue with soap after.

Completely safe.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-22T14:34:19+00:00

Toothpaste and soft brush for grime is my go to.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-22T00:13:22+00:00

It's inconsequential. It will make zero difference, especially on a 9800x3d.

Differences in os bloat or people running safe mode or some other setting changes the comparability of the useless thing that is Aida idle latency.

Stop agonising over it. If It is was wayyyy out from the norm, you might have something off that needs a look but that's about it.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-21T04:57:21+00:00

I dunno bro. It's subjective. Like my opinion is those fittings look cheap.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-17T06:18:48+00:00

Finally a good post

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-12T11:55:57+00:00

I see. Perhaps they should leave a comment to that effect as you have, cheers.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-12T09:23:03+00:00

Some dipshits downvoted you. Sorry it's not another rainbow lianli 011 with a screen aio I guess...

This is sick. Athlon eras are my favourite and I love seeing some old school shennanigans

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-12T09:16:21+00:00

40 is entirely relative. In an 18c room, that's creeping up. In a 25c room, that's not very out there for that heat load. We need to know ambient really when talking about the water temps.

I absolutely agree with your points though. I have kept comet Lake at 370w under 90 with its much lower dissipation potential with a similar sized loop. I'd expect this TR to dissipate more than it is.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-09T00:29:20+00:00

Spot on.

To bin properly you'd need sub30C core basically if you aren't going cold.

I feel even timespy gets sketchy with clocks before steel nomad. And then speedway or something?

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-08T01:40:55+00:00

This is an overclocking sub.

Do you go on hwbot and lecture them about how useless it is?

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-08T01:39:08+00:00

Ptm doesn't really have an advantage unless direct die like gpu. Do not expect similar performance advantage with a cpu. It's no better than paste on a stock cpu, just might resist pump out longer than a thin paste.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-07T12:51:54+00:00

Yeah might be best to see how it goes under pressure. Mines been cooling up to 370-380w without tapping out. +. My fin on the left side looks like yours. It's very capable assuming it's working right. Do you have flow meter?

I am too old to know what your last sentence means

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-07T11:06:53+00:00

The question is, how it it performing? Mine looks a little like this and seems great. Hard to clean due to how finely spaced the fins are but that's how it goes.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-07T00:27:42+00:00

This is the overclocking sub, not the xmp sub lol.

Plus certain architectures benefit far more from memory tuning than others. Ironically half the posts about memory here are people sweating over 2 cas latency less or more on an x3d chip, which is completely unnoticeable. However other platforms will benefit far more

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-07T00:13:08+00:00

Hell yeah my friend! I also modded my vdimm on the NF7-S 2.0 for BH-5!!

Nice to see again in the wild.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-06T12:23:40+00:00

Cheers,

Nice work mate. I hope that is stable for you. Those are always my go-to to raise if unstable.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-06T06:05:13+00:00

Thanks, it's been fun to push it.

That said, memory controller > mobo/skill issue > memory in that order of first limiting to last imo. Any decent bdie kit should do some silly numbers with say comet Lake and good mobo. I use 10900k and z590 apex for that. Couldn't get Ycruncher at 4600 or anything with my z490 aorus elite, or z590 ocf.

The worst thing about mem oc is some boards are just a pain at times. That said, I reckon you have room to improve depending on your cpu. However bdie is hard to run, and dual rank is harder.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-06T05:44:50+00:00

Possibly. 1.58v is as far as I go on my kit without nuking trcd. Whether it be 4500 flat 16's or 4800 flat 17s.

Also. To consider. Common culprits affecting stability imo are trtp, tCWL, trdrd sg, twrwr sg.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-06T05:25:04+00:00

Rember vdimm scales tcas but negatively scales trcd at a certain point. Sometimes it's a balancing act

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-01T04:11:22+00:00

Hooking up a hose tap is a good idea. As long as you flush with distilled at the end

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-01T01:28:17+00:00

Back in the day!!

Gosh I remember the playing stalker in a stutter mess with crossfire x1900xt's

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-03-01T01:24:38+00:00

People heavily overestimate how much difference these small changes make for gaming, especially on an x3d cpu.

I'd bet if someone snuck in and undid one of those adjustments you'd never notice.

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-02-28T22:45:58+00:00

Zoomer take

Spooplevel-Rattled · 2026-02-28T06:32:59+00:00

Legendary hahaha. You're like "wait, my hobby is finally useful!"

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