Uninstalling Loop

[dturner124]

Hi Everyone,

 

I just finished installing my water-loop. However, I plugged in a RGB splitter the wrong way and have shorted one of the IC on the board. The PC runs fine, but it's likely I will need to replace the motherboard.

 

Is it unsafe to keep the water-blocks attached to the GPU and CPU, and the liquid in the loop when disconnecting them from the motherboard when replacing the MB in the system?

 

I used soft tubing for the loop, so the flexibility seems like it wouldn't be an issue to disconnect the GPU/CPU carefully and move them accordingly.

 

[fonzz1e]

since yer using soft tubing it shouldn't be an issue, do make sure your fittings are not being loosen when u move things around

 

I did my i7 4770k to r5 3600 swap without disassembling my loop

[Mick Naughty]

If you can get away with it, theres no harm is keeping in all together. As long as the connections are good and dont mind the risk of a leak.

[AnonymousGuy]

I do this all the time.  Once you crack the seal on soft tubing and take it off a barb...you have to replace that segment of tubing because it won't seal properly again.  If I have slack in the tubing I'll just shorten it an inch.

 

Be careful though with the tubing twisting and unscrewing fittings.  Also I've had other stuff like rotary fittings leak from having too much stress put on them.

[HM-2]

10 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

I do this all the time.  Once you crack the seal on soft tubing and take it off a barb...you have to replace that segment of tubing because it won't seal properly again. 

Depends on the tubing. I've had no issues removing and returning EK-ZMT to fittings (admittedly compression rather than barb). 

[Mick Naughty]

Zmt is good for that, especially on multi barb. Moved on from using leaching clear tubing that can have those issues.

 

[fonzz1e]

I also have qdc on my gpu block, so I can swap out if I upgrade or need to troubleshoot it