Recently I had a big scare with my water cooling loop. I normally do maintenance on my loop every year. I change the coolant (EK clear coolant both old and new branding) Well one day my PC just shuts down. I try and turn it back on and it just clicks off again. I'm like alright lets take a look. Well to my horror I notice a small puddle of coolant leaking out of my GPU block on my motherboard. What I come to find out is that the screws holding my EK water block water tight actually vibrated loose enough for a tiny amount of coolant to start leaking.
Anyway over the next 8 hours of anxiety I tear the entire loop and PC apart and begin a full cleaning. I mean taking everything apart. Luckily after tons of cleaning and everything there was no damage to the board.
I will admit this was the first time I had ever actually cleaned the GPU block. My reasoning behind this is that I didn't want to lose the EK Leak Free Guarantee. (It's absolutely f**king worthless) So I crack it open and I find that the entire block is covered in a film of this blue goop. It had the consistency of like a jelly. It isn't present in the CPU block which I have cleaned before. As I go to get all this goop out it starts drying of course and when it does it turns into a white powdery substance.
Like I said I use all EK equipment in my loop so I don't think it would be a corrosion issue. I also use EK Clear Concentrate and the tubing is Red Primoflex Advnaced LRT Tubing.
Maybe it's something from the tubing but I'm not sure. If anyone has any clue let me know.
Anyway over the next 8 hours of anxiety I tear the entire loop and PC apart and begin a full cleaning. I mean taking everything apart. Luckily after tons of cleaning and everything there was no damage to the board.
I will admit this was the first time I had ever actually cleaned the GPU block. My reasoning behind this is that I didn't want to lose the EK Leak Free Guarantee. (It's absolutely f**king worthless) So I crack it open and I find that the entire block is covered in a film of this blue goop. It had the consistency of like a jelly. It isn't present in the CPU block which I have cleaned before. As I go to get all this goop out it starts drying of course and when it does it turns into a white powdery substance.
Like I said I use all EK equipment in my loop so I don't think it would be a corrosion issue. I also use EK Clear Concentrate and the tubing is Red Primoflex Advnaced LRT Tubing.
Maybe it's something from the tubing but I'm not sure. If anyone has any clue let me know.
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