Charlie_2510

I've had this with my VIII Impact. Put my shiny new 6700k in and some Corsair Dominator Platinum, 3200 speed, and literally just turned the XMP Profile on and changed nothing else. CPU temps shot to 85-90 on a fully watercooled board. Voltage was over 1.5!! Going to have a proper play and set up a manual over clock . I thought it was just mine being voltage hungry, wonder if this is a worldwide thing.

Or lots of 45 degree fittings.... haha

I would put the same fans on opposite sides of the rad and not next to each other... so they are sucking/blowing their twin. It will look worse but at least you know that they will have exactly the same air flow rates and won't be mismatched at all,.

As I'm only running a cheap Skylake Pentium Dual Core G4500 at the moment I may just put a stock cooler on it and give the whole loop a proper clean down, maybe even swap for a D5 before rebuilding it properly. It's definitely the pump, outside the case on the bench it still crackles and ticks. I remember it having a bit of build up in it after re assembling it, but didn't have enough distilled water to clean and flush it.

I had a bit of a panic after rebuilding my Corsair Air 240. I've taken apart my power supply and painted it and relocated my pump/res combo to on top of it... Ever since there has been a weird crackling / ticking noise coming from the psu. Or at least that's what i thought. After trouble shooting and disconnecting every component to see if something was shorting I decided to unplug the water cooling system for a few seconds and run it... silence. So the DDC pump sounds like it's crackling, intermittently. It was sat empty for a good few weeks whilst i was rebuilding, and i've used some pretty old fluid. Before I drain the loop again , is there a service kit or something for the DDC pumps? Will stripping it and cleaning it cause any more damage? Not sure I can fit the heatsink upgrade where it's currently located.. Ideas?

Meant like this, they will work as a pair just fine. It'll look ghetto and rubbish, was just a temporary solution that could work. Surely the 2 sets of fans won't effect each others efficiency when set up like this @UberGamerKing

Why not put one SP each side and one AF each side.... so they are paired either side and match , pushing and pulling they're partner, but at different rates top and bottom of your rad?? Free option until you sort something out @Nightfallen

Obviously after buying a brand new skylake motherboard the first thing you have to do it rip it to bits... Anyone noticed the strange 3 different colour schemes on the RoG parts on this board. Like shiny silver and red on the audio, flat gray and red on the heat sink next to that and shiny silver and red on the vrm daughter board heat sink... Strip it... Mask it Spray the hell out of it... Done Should match my black white and silver build better now ?

Just realised I've spent a few hours modding my case and painting all kinds of parts and I've made it look like a cheap standard case now lol. Most cases boast of black powder coated etc insides, whereas older cheap cases were all like silver and bare metal... well i've sprayed my Air 240 Anthracite and now it looks like it's just bare metal again haha rubbish. What do you guys think??

Thanks man, Here: "EK-COOLSTREAM XE 240 (DOUBLE)" Dimensions: 280 x 130 x 60mm (L x W x H) It went through a few changes... got purpler..

I had a custom loop in my air 540. 2 very thick rads. See pics. Loads of room in this case for whatever you decide on... Could probably have gone push pull in the front as well.

Thanks @EK Luc . I'm selling my old block now and will be buying this as soon as the money clears back to Twin Frozr 5 noise for the minute...

This has popped up once or twice already and if it wasn't for a cheap eBay backplate i was looking at buying i might never had known. ver1.1 and ver1.3 MSI GTX970 Gaming 4G Twin Frozr's are very different with the screw layouts for the EK Waterblock that i have. They now do a TFX and a TF5 version to cover the 2 types however my local Overclockers UK don't seem to stock the newer TFX or even notify buyers that the 2 are not interchangeable. I bought my card and waterblock from the same web site at the same time just over a year ago and there were a few screws that didn't seem to line up but i really wanted to finish my system so just left them off. I'm hoping the thermal pads further out on the card are still making contact but it looks like i'll be selling my 1.1 cooler block and getting a new 1.3 ... if i can find somewhere that stocks them. As the GPU is fully screwed in, all 4 surrounding screws present and tight, i haven't noticed high temps... could this be causing unknown damage?? Cheers.

Not sure if this helps, but I've un-knowingly had a ver1.1 EK waterblock on my my ver1.3 card for nearly a year... lots of screws miss, I have the 4 main ones around the GPU itself and about 3 others. 4 or 5 have no screws in.... but I've never had temp issues.... yet... and I am looking at changing it lol

It's the concentrate Ekoolant. Probably about quarter of a bottle of this in my loop.