rad temp/case temp emergency!

Dimetime35c · July 14, 2015

Okay so the other day I was doing routine maintance on my case and when I removed the top fans from my rad I noticed a ring of what looked like fluid around one of the fans outflow ring. My first thought was it was my rad that's leaking however when I placed the rad under the cpu block(H100I) nothing was dripping. Also the fans were mounted above the rad as exhaust so it would be pretty hard for fluid to have been sucked from the leak and onto the fan. The only other possibility I can come up with is being that its summer and I have my AC on there is enough heat to generate condensation. The rad cools a 4690k oc'd to 4.0Ghz I also have an EVGA 980ti mounted under that and a Soundblaster Z sound card. The case is a C70 with two high airflow 120mm mounted in the front, high airflow 120mm exhuast mounted at the rear and a 140mm high airflow mounted on the side window positioned right next to the intake for the GPU. During game play of arkham city at max settings my cpu and GPU never run above 45c my room is kept at a cool 69ish degrees farh. Is my theory that its condensation most likely the answer or am I overlooking something? Also the fluid was only present on one fan that was located above the cpu and above a heatsink on my motherboard. If it is condensation what do I do! I'm worried that if I hadn't caught it eventually enough would have built up to cause a drop to form and land on my gpu or cpu shorting it out. Also would getting a different case help by letting me mount my rad in a different location? My worry is that I'm pulling so much air into the case that no matter what I do sense the parts create heat there will always be a build up of condensation. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you very much!

Interfectorem · July 14, 2015

It's most likely fan bearing lubricant / fluid.

DXMember · July 14, 2015

Condensation can only appear if the object is at lower temperature of the surrounding air - E.G. if your fans would be at 30*C then your room air would have to be at 31*C or more (that would make no sense and that would be very hot room (: )

I am positive we can exclude codensation as a possible explanation.

Could you by any chance have dripped anything over the PC?

I could actually agree iwh hte fan bearing lube - maybe some pics?

Dimetime35c · July 14, 2015

How would I be able to check if its bearing lube? That does sound possible but no other fan has the fluid around the ring. The fluid was only on the top part of the fan. On the ring that has the four posts connected to it. The area the air blows out. Is it possible the the hot air exsiting the case is causing condensation. I should have also said the area the case sits in is possibly right in the airstream from a vent so the ac blows across the area the hot air exsits. Not trying to argue that your wrong just trying to give more info and explain my thinking. Both my cpu and gpu during gaming run at about 40ish c. Could the combination of the heat being pulled from the rad and the heat given off from the graphics card be the issue? Didn't notice the fluid until I got the 980ti that doesn't have the stock cooler. My first one had the blower style cooler and the one I have now has the EVGA AX 2.0 cooler.