Xrqute
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As some of you may know I've been waiting for my R4BE that I purchased in December to arrive (it took a bloody long time because despite my request for express aka Air Mail it got sent regular aka surface). Well it finally arrived this week!!!
And in my excitement I hastily drained and stripped down my system to begin the rebuild including EKWB blocks for my 280x DCUII, R4BE and ROG Front Base.
Rebuilt with all its new shiny bits I leak tested it for a few hours. All seemed fine. I even decided to "TTL" it up and mout my PSU with the fan facing upwards. But after using the system for many an hour multiple shutdowns etc a leak appeared after a shutdown.
The leak just so happened to be on the outflow of my 280x and because my PSU was mounted upside down coolant went stright through the fan grill into the supply.
And well let me tell you when they blow they go with a BANG!!!
At a guess the leak was caused by me bumping something while trying to reconnect my PSU. Having a 240mm rad in the floor of a switch 810 plus the AX1200i leaves the tiniest bit of room to get your cabling connected (extremely annoying and fiddly).
So now I'm down an extremely good and expensive PSU with nothing to replace it till I get paid :-( So once again here I sit waiting to be able to see what kind of overclocks I can get on my R4BE.
Moral of the story......
Be extremely careful when reconnecting your PSU.
#particularly if you have the fan facing upwards.
And in my excitement I hastily drained and stripped down my system to begin the rebuild including EKWB blocks for my 280x DCUII, R4BE and ROG Front Base.
Rebuilt with all its new shiny bits I leak tested it for a few hours. All seemed fine. I even decided to "TTL" it up and mout my PSU with the fan facing upwards. But after using the system for many an hour multiple shutdowns etc a leak appeared after a shutdown.
The leak just so happened to be on the outflow of my 280x and because my PSU was mounted upside down coolant went stright through the fan grill into the supply.
And well let me tell you when they blow they go with a BANG!!!
At a guess the leak was caused by me bumping something while trying to reconnect my PSU. Having a 240mm rad in the floor of a switch 810 plus the AX1200i leaves the tiniest bit of room to get your cabling connected (extremely annoying and fiddly).
So now I'm down an extremely good and expensive PSU with nothing to replace it till I get paid :-( So once again here I sit waiting to be able to see what kind of overclocks I can get on my R4BE.
Moral of the story......
Be extremely careful when reconnecting your PSU.
#particularly if you have the fan facing upwards.
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