need help about my fury x

[omegadavid]

so i just got fury x and i tried to use regular case fan screws to put the water cooling fan on the case which because of that i damaged some fins of the rad in the corners. now im worried since the fins of the rad are so fragile are the pipes of the rad fragile as well? please i need help

 

[Grimwinder]

No, the pipes are generally hard metal and are very "non- fragile". So, no worries from that point of view.

 

[jkhoward]

The fins are very fragile but when damaged don't actually cause much harm unless all of them are bent over restricting air flow. It is common to have a few bent pins across the whole radiator.

 

[omegadavid]

what if the fin in front detaches will it cause a leak?

 

[omegadavid]

The fins are very fragile but when damaged don't actually cause much harm unless all of them are bent over restricting air flow. It is common to have a few bent pins across the whole radiator.

what if the fin in front detaches will it cause a leak?

 

[Grimwinder]

Depends on what you mean, the fins are generally soldered to the outside of the pipes, they don't penetrate them. So, having one come loose wouldn't cause a leak, though it would impact the cooling/heat transfer of the radiator.

 

[omegadavid]

Depends on what you mean, the fins are generally soldered to the outside of the pipes, they don't penetrate them. So, having one come loose wouldn't cause a leak, though it would impact the cooling/heat transfer of the radiator.

but it wont cause a leak right? because this is what happened

the circles are where you place the screws and the red X is where i broke the fins

 

[Grimwinder]

No the fins being bent won't cause a leak, and unless you bent a bunch of them, thus restricting airflow, as JK points out, it will have no effect on your cooling system.

 

[omegadavid]

No the fins being bent won't cause a leak, and unless you bent a bunch of them, thus restricting airflow, as JK points out, it will have no effect on your cooling system.

so in otherwords i dont need to worry because the pipes are mate from strong metal and since i bent 3 fins it wont cause a leak?

 

[Grimwinder]

Exactly. The fins themselves don't have any fluid in them, they just transfer heat from the pipes, if you destroyed all of the fins and the pipes were intact you wouldn't leak, though you wouldn't cool much either ;-).

 

[omegadavid]

wow alright thanks a lot because i was super worried!