- Sep 1, 2004
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To start off, I recieved a thermaltake aquarius III watercooling system http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/thaqiiexlico.html for christmas, and was really excited. I get past the difficult install, and the usafe filling process, and everything seems to work fine. But alas, everything was not fine. If you have seen the aquarius III, you may have noticed that pump is located inside the resivoir. After a few minutes oif use, I noticed the water was leaking through the wires that run into the resivoir, and power the pump. Big design flaw, but no big deal. I patched it up with some winshield cement, and everything seemed alright. Last night after playing Command and Conquer, I hear my system alarm go off in my headphones. I couldnt hear the leaking outside my headphones, but just to be safe, I turn ther PC off. This is when I hear the loud dripping noise.(not dripping, pouring) thank god for me my thermaltake case is big enough that the water pouring into my case comes within an inch of hitting my x800xt PE, or anything else in my case. I scrambled to get anything out of the case, except the motherboard, and nothing seemed damaged. Today when I got home from school, I opened the watercooling to see what may haved caused the problem. To my "surprise" the resivioir was cracked in several places.
The watercooling cost $219 from SVC.com. (ripoff, I know) I want to return it but they want 30% for a re-stocking fee, and after shipping, I'll be lucky to wind up with a little over half the $219. I'm going to call them when my mom gets home so I can get the order number (its in her e-mail) I may also send a letter to thermaltake, but I doubt they'll read it. In the meantime, does anyone have any other suggestions as to what I should do? I'm going to wait a few days to put my PC back together as to ensure everything is dry.
Also: to anyone considering buying this, I wouldn't reccomend it. Though I'm sure its some fluke that mine broke, this system did not keep my amd 64 3500 much cooler then my venus12 did.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what else I should do, fell free to say. I'm contemplating buying a new resivoir and pump, but there isn't much room in this thing, and I'm short on cash.
I'll have pics up later.
The watercooling cost $219 from SVC.com. (ripoff, I know) I want to return it but they want 30% for a re-stocking fee, and after shipping, I'll be lucky to wind up with a little over half the $219. I'm going to call them when my mom gets home so I can get the order number (its in her e-mail) I may also send a letter to thermaltake, but I doubt they'll read it. In the meantime, does anyone have any other suggestions as to what I should do? I'm going to wait a few days to put my PC back together as to ensure everything is dry.
Also: to anyone considering buying this, I wouldn't reccomend it. Though I'm sure its some fluke that mine broke, this system did not keep my amd 64 3500 much cooler then my venus12 did.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what else I should do, fell free to say. I'm contemplating buying a new resivoir and pump, but there isn't much room in this thing, and I'm short on cash.
I'll have pics up later.