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Last 2 days, i wake up, turning on my PC from a sleep stand, to find out the AIO attached to the GPU (240mm) is making these bubble noises. This bubble noises stop when i ramp up fan for a minute at 100% kind of flushing the air bubbles through the system. I have'nt cleaned, refreshed or maintained the AIO for some time now, is it up or due for a refill?

I know they lose some liquid over time, ive reflushed it once using demineralised water.
 
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Ok so woke up this morning, it woud'nt stop with pushing bubbles, so i discovered that it must have bin slow leaking for days, straight into the PSU. Apparently the seal gave up, and upon removal it just exploded with force out of it, including water.

GPU is still OK; but i dont have a normal cooler for it (lol). PSU however starts to make heavy shortcut sounds when you power it on. 100% water leaked inside of it and causing a short. Ill teardown that beasty later. In the meantime bought a 600W PSU followed with a Nvidia 710 for just the 2D imaging.

Note to self: Stop fucking around with AIO kits designed for CPU's, lol. It worked flawless for 2 years.
 
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Jism said:
I know they lose some liquid over time, ive reflushed it once using demineralised water.
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Demineralised water is not the correct solution for this. Get proper coolant next time. Do a post-mortem on that cooler, open it and check the internals. I highly doubt that it is clean inside anymore. And it could very well have contributed to the seal failure.
 
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Jism said:
Ok so woke up this morning, it woud'nt stop with pushing bubbles, so i discovered that it must have bin slow leaking for days, straight into the PSU. Apparently the seal gave up, and upon removal it just exploded with force out of it, including water.

GPU is still OK; but i dont have a normal cooler for it (lol). PSU however starts to make heavy shortcut sounds when you power it on. 100% water leaked inside of it and causing a short. Ill teardown that beasty later. In the meantime bought a 600W PSU followed with a Nvidia 710 for just the 2D imaging.

Note to self: Stop fucking around with AIO kits designed for CPU's, lol. It worked flawless for 2 years.
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If it exploded sounds like it had growth in the loop.
 
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Jism said:
Note to self: Stop fucking around with AIO kits designed for CPU's, lol. It worked flawless for 2 years.
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Dude AIOs are obviously not meant to be refiled by the user, I am sorry to say this but it's your fault. I used a CPU AIO on a 1080 as well and it worked fine, this would have happened regardless. Did you have the radiator above the level where the pump was or below ?
 
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The levels where still fine. It was just a few ml i guess that got out and dropped into the PSU.

I used that PSU (Antec 750W Truepower) for more then 9 years lol. It was a tank. Ran a crossfire R7 270x or even 3x RX480 with a heavily OC'ed FX at 4.8Ghz. Lol. The top lid of the fan (the label) is kind of wet / soaked; likely it dropped or spilled inside the PSU. The PSU now when you just put power on it makes a sizzling and almost crackling sound; 100% toast due to the water leaked into it.

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Nothing wrong with pump or residue remains etc... Using distilled water worked quite fine for 2+ years on this AIO.

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PSU ... Nothing bad to see here really. Cleaned it out and dried it out; it should be OK now. Have'nt tested.
 
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