Posted November 12, 2013 Hi everyone. I want to apologize in advance for the long post, but I really need your help. I own 670sli (both with waterblocks) and last week one of the cards started heating a little more than usual so I decided to fix it this past weekend. Everything went well, both cards has great temps (around 26) until Sunday afternoon my screen goes black and I thought windows screwed up. So I rebooted and after that evga precision only detects one card and the nightmare begins. I noticed one of the cards had a little bit of water between the pcb and the backplate, so I unplugged everything, removed both backplate and waterblock, cleaned and dryed everything up and now I have placed the card with a lot of rice. I also noticed the power connector extensions were humid and they are now drying. Hopefully the card will survive. I will only test this in about 3/4 weeks. Do you think it will survive? Now I have another problem (as if the other one wasnt enough). After all that mess I booted my pc with the other card (after I cheked if it had any water too, but it didnt) and now it has very hot temps.. I was in windows with a few programs opened and it was around 55C. After that I opened bf3 and it went to 102C. I immediately closed bf and then it went to 70C. It is very strange since on saturday it was around 26C. I already confirmed that thermal pads and tim are both correctly placed. I've done this several times before, I dont know why this is happening. Can anyone please help me? thank you very much and sorry for the big post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 12, 2013 First the very basics and stupid questions to make sure. Thermal compound used? Pump still alive? Filled enough? Rad clear of dust? Used the correct heat block for the GPU and tightened it? CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k @ 4.7 1.3v with a Corsair H80 w/Dual SP120s - Motherboard: MSI Z97 gaming 5 - RAM: 4x4 G.Skill Ripjaws X @ 1600 - GPU: Dual PowerColour R9 290- SSD: Samsung NVME SM951 256GB-- PSU: Corsair RM 1000 - Case: NZXT H440 Black/red - Keyboard: Coolermaster CM storm Quickfire TK, Cherry MX blues - Mouse: Logitech G502 - Heaphones: Beyerdynamic DT 770 - Monitors: 3x VE248H Eyefinity 1080P - Phone: iPhone 6S Plus Please post your specifications in your post, signature or even better, system page on your profile! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 12, 2013 Author - I used the noctua NT-H1 - Yes - Yes - Yes, cleaned it this weekend - Yes Both blocks are from the same brand (xspc). Also my 3770k (delidded) is at 30C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 12, 2013 If your tubing is clear, is there plenty of water flowing through the GPUs? My only thought (Not having much knowledge of WCing) would be lack of waterflow or water not being cooled. CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k @ 4.7 1.3v with a Corsair H80 w/Dual SP120s - Motherboard: MSI Z97 gaming 5 - RAM: 4x4 G.Skill Ripjaws X @ 1600 - GPU: Dual PowerColour R9 290- SSD: Samsung NVME SM951 256GB-- PSU: Corsair RM 1000 - Case: NZXT H440 Black/red - Keyboard: Coolermaster CM storm Quickfire TK, Cherry MX blues - Mouse: Logitech G502 - Heaphones: Beyerdynamic DT 770 - Monitors: 3x VE248H Eyefinity 1080P - Phone: iPhone 6S Plus Please post your specifications in your post, signature or even better, system page on your profile! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 12, 2013 Author Yeah, the tube is filled with water. This is really strange since the cpu is perfectly fine but the gpu isnt.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 12, 2013 Author Do you think the thermal pads may be used too much? I have this block since September 2012.but again, it doesn't make any sense since Saturday it was working perfectly fine.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 12, 2013 You probably have air trapped in the block. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 13, 2013 Author You probably have air trapped in the block. How can I fix that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 13, 2013 Tilt your case so the ports are high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 13, 2013 Yeah really sounds like air in your gpu cooler, what kind of pump do you use? Can you manually regulate the waterflow? Cause if so turn it up and down it will help to bleed the air out of your system. To the first card that got humid... well I have little hope for this card cause usually what happens when the power connectors get wet is that you generate a short circuit and that tends to fry your mosfet on the pcb. How long have you had the water in the loop when this happened and did you use a silver coil to kill bacterias? Intel i7 7820X (delidded) @ 4.9GHz - MSI X299 M7 ACK + EKWB Fullcover Block - G.Skill Trident Z 32GB @ 3466MHz - nVidia Titan Xp + EKWB Fullcover Block @ 2.1GHz - Samsung 960Pro 2x - WDD Blue 2TB - Seasonic 750W Platinum - modded Corsair 600C - Hardtubed Custom Watercooling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 13, 2013 Author The pump is a d5, so yes, I can regulate the waterflow. I will try doing that then. The water (distilled) had about one month before this started. To kill bacterias I'm using one monsoon silver bullet. I pulled it out this weekend and it was possible to see that it was working, it wasnt cleaned, brand new anymore. btw, do you think I should get more? or is one enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 13, 2013 If your PCB is completely "normal" so no burnt chips then your card might be okay. Look towards the VRM section of the card when looking for burn out chips. They can be pretty hard to find. Feel free to PM for any water-cooling questions. Check out my profile for more ways to contact me. Add me to your circles on Google+ here or you can follow me on twitter @deadfire19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 13, 2013 Author I just put the "good" card back on air and the temps are fine now. I guess either the block is screwed, or I need to get new thermal pads. I also inspected the "wet" card and this is what I found what do you think Ghost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 13, 2013 I just put the "good" card back on air and the temps are fine now. I guess either the block is screwed, or I need to get new thermal pads. I also inspected the "wet" card and this is what I found http://imgur.com/zPhxrR7,DhJ8aai,8YydBba what do you think Ghost? ewwww *sizzle*! those aren't supposed to be there. looks like something got in the GPU area and shorted or heated the circuits. got so hot, looks like C680 and C670 desoldered and dropped their fuse/resistors. might compare your other GPU to the back of this one and count the differences (if same brand/model) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2013 Author I posted a link to imgur with 3 images, but it just showed here the first image. On the second one it shows another mark like that ones, but on the other side of the card and it was there before all this happened. I don't know how it got there, but the card was working fine. hopefully the rice with take that out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2013 Wow that PCB looks very bad imho... I would bet that there are some components that got fried... Well to answer your question if the water was in the system for just a month and if the tubes had not too many bacterias, it should not be a problem at all. But like always when it comes to water cooling, it's hard to predict. I had once a fitting getting a little bit loose and a lot of water spilled into my old rig (had a side window a saw it right away). Even though the water wasn't that fresh (but I always use a silver coil), after drying the hardware the system ran without issues... but you never know. Intel i7 7820X (delidded) @ 4.9GHz - MSI X299 M7 ACK + EKWB Fullcover Block - G.Skill Trident Z 32GB @ 3466MHz - nVidia Titan Xp + EKWB Fullcover Block @ 2.1GHz - Samsung 960Pro 2x - WDD Blue 2TB - Seasonic 750W Platinum - modded Corsair 600C - Hardtubed Custom Watercooling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2013 Keep an eye on your other card, just in case, as well as the rest of the components. But your wet card is almost 100% dead. Main rig on profile VAULT - File Server Spoiler Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 3x 1TB Seagate Barracuda (dumping ground), 3x 8TB WD White-Label (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C Spoiler Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro Mac Mini (Late 2020) Spoiler Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2013 Author alright guys, thanks for all the answers! just one more thing: is there a possibility of ruining other components while checking if this card is working or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2013 alright guys, thanks for all the answers! just one more thing: is there a possibility of ruining other components while checking if this card is working or not? As in you plug that card in and test it? Main rig on profile VAULT - File Server Spoiler Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 3x 1TB Seagate Barracuda (dumping ground), 3x 8TB WD White-Label (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C Spoiler Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro Mac Mini (Late 2020) Spoiler Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2013 Author As in you plug that card in and test it? yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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