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The seal on a Cooler Master AIO water cooler failed. The leak caused the top of a pair of Palit GTX560Ti's to fry, even melting the PCI-E slot. I am currently working on building this poor fellow a new rig. For obvious reasons, and his new found fear of water, we are going with air cooling. 

CPU - Intel i7-4770K OC @ 4.4Ghz Motherboard - Asus Maximus Vi Hero RAM - G.Skill Rampage 8Gb (2x4Gb) 1600MHz GPU - Saphire Radeon HD-6870 Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540

Storage - OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD, Western Digital 2TB Black, Western Digital 3TB Green PSU - Corsair 760i Display(s) - 3x Dell S2340M 23" LCD IPS panels Cooling - Corsair H100i

Keyboard - Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Red Mouse - Corsair M65 Sound - Optical Out to Sony STR-K670P 5.1 system; Headphones - Presonus HP60

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We are going with an AMD A10-7850 and a Gigabyte A88X board. Also a single Asus GTX760 DCII to replace the 2 Palit 560ti's.

CPU - Intel i7-4770K OC @ 4.4Ghz Motherboard - Asus Maximus Vi Hero RAM - G.Skill Rampage 8Gb (2x4Gb) 1600MHz GPU - Saphire Radeon HD-6870 Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540

Storage - OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD, Western Digital 2TB Black, Western Digital 3TB Green PSU - Corsair 760i Display(s) - 3x Dell S2340M 23" LCD IPS panels Cooling - Corsair H100i

Keyboard - Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Red Mouse - Corsair M65 Sound - Optical Out to Sony STR-K670P 5.1 system; Headphones - Presonus HP60

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That sucks :/

 

Hope the new build is much better!

Thanks. I do too. I feel for the guy who owns it. Made me whisper sweet things to my H100i when i got home. 

CPU - Intel i7-4770K OC @ 4.4Ghz Motherboard - Asus Maximus Vi Hero RAM - G.Skill Rampage 8Gb (2x4Gb) 1600MHz GPU - Saphire Radeon HD-6870 Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540

Storage - OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD, Western Digital 2TB Black, Western Digital 3TB Green PSU - Corsair 760i Display(s) - 3x Dell S2340M 23" LCD IPS panels Cooling - Corsair H100i

Keyboard - Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Red Mouse - Corsair M65 Sound - Optical Out to Sony STR-K670P 5.1 system; Headphones - Presonus HP60

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I know the feeling of frying gpus with liquids. Also managed to get water underneath the cpu water block only a few millimeters from the socket. 

 

How old was the CM AIO? And where did the seal break? 

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Is it just me or is Grammar slowly becoming extinct on LTT? 

 

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I know the feeling of frying gpus with liquids. Also managed to get water underneath the cpu water block only a few millimeters from the socket. 

 

How old was the CM AIO? And where did the seal break? 

It appeared to have failed around the plastic ring that attached to the copper plate. I'm not 100% sure about the age, but I think it was arounf 2 years old. The system was an iBuyPower pc.

CPU - Intel i7-4770K OC @ 4.4Ghz Motherboard - Asus Maximus Vi Hero RAM - G.Skill Rampage 8Gb (2x4Gb) 1600MHz GPU - Saphire Radeon HD-6870 Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540

Storage - OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD, Western Digital 2TB Black, Western Digital 3TB Green PSU - Corsair 760i Display(s) - 3x Dell S2340M 23" LCD IPS panels Cooling - Corsair H100i

Keyboard - Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Red Mouse - Corsair M65 Sound - Optical Out to Sony STR-K670P 5.1 system; Headphones - Presonus HP60

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It appeared to have failed around the plastic ring that attached to the copper plate. I'm not 100% sure about the age, but I think it was arounf 2 years old. The system was an iBuyPower pc.

I got one of those in a box. I was scared of it too (apparently for a good reason) so after a year I replaced it with a H110. 

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Corsair 400C- Intel i7 6700- Gigabyte Gaming 6- GTX 1080 Founders Ed. - Intel 530 120GB + 2xWD 1TB + Adata 610 256GB- 16GB 2400MHz G.Skill- Evga G2 650 PSU- Corsair H110- ASUS PB278Q- Dell u2412m- Logitech G710+ - Logitech g700 - Sennheiser PC350 SE/598se


Is it just me or is Grammar slowly becoming extinct on LTT? 

 

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I got one of those in a box. I was scared of it too (apparently for a good reason) so after a year I replaced it with a H110. 

Yeah I love my H100i. Works like a champ.

CPU - Intel i7-4770K OC @ 4.4Ghz Motherboard - Asus Maximus Vi Hero RAM - G.Skill Rampage 8Gb (2x4Gb) 1600MHz GPU - Saphire Radeon HD-6870 Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540

Storage - OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD, Western Digital 2TB Black, Western Digital 3TB Green PSU - Corsair 760i Display(s) - 3x Dell S2340M 23" LCD IPS panels Cooling - Corsair H100i

Keyboard - Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Red Mouse - Corsair M65 Sound - Optical Out to Sony STR-K670P 5.1 system; Headphones - Presonus HP60

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Yeah I love my H100i. Works like a champ.

fingers crossed mine has been good too. 

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Corsair 400C- Intel i7 6700- Gigabyte Gaming 6- GTX 1080 Founders Ed. - Intel 530 120GB + 2xWD 1TB + Adata 610 256GB- 16GB 2400MHz G.Skill- Evga G2 650 PSU- Corsair H110- ASUS PB278Q- Dell u2412m- Logitech G710+ - Logitech g700 - Sennheiser PC350 SE/598se


Is it just me or is Grammar slowly becoming extinct on LTT? 

 

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We are going with an AMD A10-7850 and a Gigabyte A88X board. Also a single Asus GTX760 DCII to replace the 2 Palit 560ti's.

For that kind of money you are WAY better off grabbing a 8320 and a Asus m5a970, seriously.

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Please PM me with your friend's contact information and I'll connect you with our Support team to workout a resolution. If the AIO unit failed and caused damage, there are options that we can take to possibly rectify the situation.

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Please PM me with your friend's contact information and I'll connect you with our Support team to workout a resolution. If the AIO unit failed and caused damage, there are options that we can take to possibly rectify the situation.

 

 

absolutely fantastic of cooler master to reach out like that, makes me proud to own cooler master products, keep up the great work!

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Please PM me with your friend's contact information and I'll connect you with our Support team to workout a resolution. If the AIO unit failed and caused damage, there are options that we can take to possibly rectify the situation.

Thank you so much for responding guys. 

So I do have to make an apology to Cooler Master and to anyone else who may have taken this post as any sort of slight to CM. The cooling unit pictured, as I discovered with a bit more investigation, was actually an Asetek(we think) and not a CM unit. Upon initial look it resembled several Cooler Master units I have worked with before. Of course Cooler Master did use Asetek units at one point, so it is still possibnle it was CM, but I now believe it was not.

Once again thank you so much for responding to me here. It is good to know that if I ever do have any issues with CM in the future I will get great service.

CPU - Intel i7-4770K OC @ 4.4Ghz Motherboard - Asus Maximus Vi Hero RAM - G.Skill Rampage 8Gb (2x4Gb) 1600MHz GPU - Saphire Radeon HD-6870 Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540

Storage - OCZ Agility 3 120Gb SSD, Western Digital 2TB Black, Western Digital 3TB Green PSU - Corsair 760i Display(s) - 3x Dell S2340M 23" LCD IPS panels Cooling - Corsair H100i

Keyboard - Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Red Mouse - Corsair M65 Sound - Optical Out to Sony STR-K670P 5.1 system; Headphones - Presonus HP60

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It appeared to have failed around the plastic ring that attached to the copper plate. I'm not 100% sure about the age, but I think it was arounf 2 years old. The system was an iBuyPower pc.

No wonder...

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If you need signatures for a complaint to the Cooler Master AIO, i would be willing to sign. Cooler Master should pay for new or parts.

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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Thank you so much for responding guys. 

So I do have to make an apology to Cooler Master and to anyone else who may have taken this post as any sort of slight to CM. The cooling unit pictured, as I discovered with a bit more investigation, was actually an Asetek(we think) and not a CM unit. Upon initial look it resembled several Cooler Master units I have worked with before. Of course Cooler Master did use Asetek units at one point, so it is still possibnle it was CM, but I now believe it was not.

Once again thank you so much for responding to me here. It is good to know that if I ever do have any issues with CM in the future I will get great service.

I should note that Cooler Master has never used Asetek to manufacture its AIO units. 

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