Hey everyone,

I've finished my build not long ago, with dual loops and I seem to have an issue im not sure on how to fix.

The loops running ok kind of, but the res seems to be insignificant and just a catchment for coolant that's not being used and as you can see in the image the color of the coolant is getting darker to the top, so its not mixing at all, as I put a few drops of dye in it in the start to try and darken it up as well.

It seemed to be doing ok but after I guess a month this darker color up top has developed.

Any suggestions?

This is showing the front of my machine and the back, ignore the mess at the back, I've just had a hip replacement op and my focus was getting it up and running before I went in to the hospital ect. Not to mention im glad all my frozen cpu orders were finished before xmas!!

At the start as you can see in one of the front images I had the loops entering into the res via the top of the res, but the pumps were making a horrible grinding noise that just wouldn't go away, I tested with the soft tube just to check if one day from the aquaero to the front input of the aquacomputer pump as you can see that almost instantly the horrid sound went away. So I bent another tube and routed that other top one straight down the front and that fixed the noise issues but now it looks like the res is just not mixing.

Current Machine



This is how I routed the hard tube and it was noisy, before testing the one blue tube then changing the other hard tube.
[img]http://www.hemaloto.com/images/Front 2.jpg[/img]


Shabby Back



Coolant running in the loops are Mayhem Pastel Concentrates mixed with distilled water. Colors are Pastel Blueberry and Pastel Red. Also added a few drops of Mayhem Dye Red and Blue to each colors to darken them.

Im running 2 loops here, with 2 480 rads in each loop with a d5 aquabus usb pump with a 880ml res with nano coating.

The cpu (5960X)and motherboard(rampage 5 extreme) loop also has the aquaero 6 for one loop, and the other has 2 980gtx's. (also with an issue ill post in another thread!! )

Anyhows, any suggestions will be helpful.

Also note, I have not finished, I have not connected up the aquareo correctly, currently its just supplying power to the 4 banks of 4 fans on each of the rads and checkings temps. I'll connect everything up correctly soon and add the software with temp curves ect ect.

I also have a hell of a lot of tubing left because this was my first attempt at bending and I expected I would be utter rubbish and I was and its frustrating at times. I need to change some pipes and do some better bends/routing as I am not happy with some angles, but I was pressed for time to get my rig running.

Hi For some reason it wasn't showing up when I tried to edit it.
The image is just me showing with paintshop how I originally had the pips setup.

I love this res, its beautiful, but I need a real way of getting this working so that the fluid is forced to mix correctly, this image above was doing it, but it was noisy as hell for some reason.
Hoping someone else has had this kind of issue.

Hi guys/gals, this is getting worse now, the red one is almost dark red to half way down the res, so I am going to have to try and fix this soon, any ideas?
I was going to try routing this again through the top and see if the noise I was getting originally is still happening, if it does I will take a video of it to see if that helps with people giving me ideas whats up with the hideous noise.
any other ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers