Redbeardthebaker

Just a follow up if it could be a leak, been playing (looking closer) with the card and there is water in the card where I did not think there should be water. See crudely drawn on pic (blue where the water should be, red where i think it shouldn't) (on the first pic (op) you can see what looks like a line or a scratch on the plexi but is actually a water mark)

End of July 2016, less than a year. The thing that's got me is not the brownish colour but the how the fins above it look a bit odd.

Title sums it up pretty well. Noticed this dicolouration on the GPU a few days ago. The CPU block looks fine exept for a part around the border which i'm not sure if water is actually meant to pass through. The water itself drained clear, although i did swab inside a few of the fittings with a cotton bud and it did come out slightly brown. Would this be most likely down to something I have done wrong or something wrong with the block itself. I used "EK Ekoolant EVO Clear Concentrate 100ml Coolant" mixed with distilled water when filling and I did flush out everything with distilled water before hand as well.

Just finished my first ever build and have to share it somewhere. Was scared off doing hard tubing so went for the flexible type, but very please how it all turned out.\

Thanks very much for the help! *Edit: Posted

Maybe a silly question because it already sounds like a bad idea, however will I damage the GPU if I power it up to post my new build without hooking it up to a loop first. It's a msi gtx1080 seahawk ek so it came with the water block pre-installed and I didnt want to find out somethings not working after I've spent all the time putting everything onto the case and sorting out the loop. (fyi its my first time building my own computer and water-cooling one, so I'm as noobish as they come)

I've heard a few times in these videos of using a separate card for physics (or is it physx) that's not in SLI or Crossfire. Can anyone share a link explaining how that works or why its beneficial please. Thanks.