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JoeSwindell · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:45 am Post subject: Corsair H40

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hydro-series-h40-high-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler.html

I've used this since 2011...It's a great product, however it's the cause of my current bad experience.

The past week my computer would crash after a couple minutes of gaming. As it turns out, the radiator was dieing in the system. This could have been very tricky to diagnose if I hadn't been in my BIOS and noticed my CPU temp's going through the roof.

If the radiator dies, there is no way to tell. The fan that cools the radiator is monitored on the motherboard, and can also be visibly seen active, so you don't get a warning there. The device itself is cool to touch!

If anyone else uses this line and starts crashing, it's something to look for.

3rdRcn · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:48 am Post subject:

Getting ready to shut down and do a rebuild right now ad installing the H100i, hope it has no issues.

If everything goes well I will see you guys in a few hours and everyone can practice their markmanship on an easy kill. Very Happy

JoeSwindell · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:23 am Post subject:

Haha! The product itself worked great and was SUPER easy to install. My ONLY complaint is the lack of being able to tell when the radiator fails...Having my CPU overheat and shut down is not a good failsafe.

You also know the abuse that thing took sucking in all the dog fur in the house...lol.

Kapak · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:43 pm Post subject:

How can the radiator fail?
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JoeSwindell · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:31 pm Post subject:

It's a closed loop environment, so the radiator sucks the liquid through and cools the liquid. The liquid then circulates back and cools the block attached to the CPU.

So basically, it wasn't doing ANY of that, or at least not cooling it, which just makes a bunch of hot liquid that does nothing.

Kapak · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:48 pm Post subject:

I know how a radiator works, it's just one lengthy pipe. So it either leaks or gets plugged. Don't you have some special water cooling liquid that would prevent any plugging? Could it be the water pump?

The only thing I could see failing in these systems would either be a leak from a worn/bad joint spilling everywhere, the pump malfunctioning or the fan of the radiator malfunctioning.
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3rdRcn · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:42 am Post subject:

Installation was fairly easy, the fans were a bit of a hassle because of where one of the connectors on the motherboard had a plug in it. That and my stupidity of taking about 25 minutes to figure out I needed to turn the F1 freeze up on warning off.

Should have everything complete by tomorrow when I will have more time to mess with it. Cloning the SSD so I could transfer everything over to the new SSD took quite a bit longer than I expected. I'll take some pics of the rebuild and post em up when I get a chance.

JoeSwindell · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:22 am Post subject:

Haha sounds good 3rd!

Kapak these are self contained units so you can't really get into them.

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JoeSwindell · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:37 pm Post subject:

3rdRcn · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:24 pm Post subject:

All done and up and running now, will try to post up some pics for you tomorrow. I hope clavis is on so I can test this thing out at max everything and see what happens.

Build: old parts that stayed, corsair 400r case, asus dvd drive, fan-atic 5 port military switch baybus, Ultra X3 1k watt power supply in black chrome finish, 3 phoenix 120mm green LED fans, 1 green led light strip, ADATA DDR3 1600 2X4gb RAM.

New Parts: core i7 4770k, gtx780ti classified with acx cooler video card, samsung 500gb SSD,ASUS Sabertooth Z87 MB, Corsair h100i liquid cooler, new BF2 zboard, mammoth redragon mouse, logitech extreme 3d pro joystick.

Looks pretty sweet and runs very quiet on low fan power. running at about 77F at idle on the cpu. Gonna run some benchmarks tomorrow and see how she does.

Need to give props to wabbit for the advice he gave on the build.

Super Wabbit · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:30 pm Post subject:

3rdRcn · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:27 pm Post subject:

Pics of the new build:

https://www.facebook.com/terry.robinson.167/media_set?set=a.662436373803678.1073741826.100001119658301&type=3&uploaded=3

Dynamite Dan · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:30 pm Post subject:

You think you can hide from me on Facebook? Think again!! Friend request sent.

Super Wabbit · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:31 pm Post subject:

Facebook, wow...

I trust it looks awesome.

3rdRcn · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:32 pm Post subject:

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Super Wabbit · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:41 pm Post subject:

<shudders> I out source my facebook to a virtual assistant in India.

Super Wabbit · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:41 pm Post subject:

I'm getting a content unavailable message form your link 3rd.

3rdRcn · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 5:14 pm Post subject: