Ordered. (Have new Loop to test on.) Will test when arrives. 35.20€ (including ~19-20% Tax here, so 5.87€ Tax). With delivery costs, 9.90€ by itself = 45.10€ in all. 29.33€ without Tax.

Cha'Ching! Bought one as well. Just the thought of not having to run the system for more than 24hrs or so is a dream come true. Sitting there like a zombie and eyeing every part of the system you've got paper towels ladened with. Disclaimer states clearly that it is in spec for EK parts only....only makes sense I guess. This will definitely help with the upgrade to TR2 or whatever AMD is going to name their next ThreadRipper series.... BEEN Waiting for quite some time for an upgrade.....

Must get one too. Although I would advise a doing also a normal leak on top, at least we can shorten the leak test time substantially.

DeskStar:

........ Sitting there like a zombie and eyeing every part of the system you've got paper towels ladened with. ........ .............

lol. So true. :P But, I would say that's part of the joy when going/doing custom loops. Unless you get a leak that is..

Koniakki:

Although I would advise a doing also a normal leak on top, at least we can shorten the leak test time substantially.

No need.. the point of leak testing with air is that "air" molecules are smaller than water molecules and you're additionally testing the loop at much higher pressures than under water.. If it's gonna hold air at 0.5 to 0.75 bar for 15 to 30min, you can be absolutely sure it's gonna hold water.

Just thinking of my system and the millions of possible peak points I'll never see until it's to late. Kind of why I went with a 400mm coolant reservoir as I'll definitely see a decrease of fluid as I've seen before with bad pump blocks from XSPC. There's a reason their triple acrylic pump tops were discontinued......!! Three of them failed on me in the same way. Now I use three bitspower POM Acytal pump tops with rotatable connectors between them and have never had issues ever since. Oh and can not forget the pressure relief valve I put in as well. Even though that was before the bitspower tops it didn't save the XSPC ones.

Now I feel pretty noob in watercooling still as I only did my own rig once, adapted it another time, but I honestly have more troubles bleeding the loop than testing it for leaks... didn't have a leak the first time I built a rig, is this really a common thing when you build say 5 loops? 2 of them leaking? Serious question.

There was a time, many moons ago, when I didn't leak test my loops. And then I did. Leak test your loops folks 😉 My D5s have been running nearly non stop for 10 years. I expect them to fail any day now.

I havn't found the need for this yet on my D15S :P

fantaskarsef:

Now I feel pretty noob in watercooling still as I only did my own rig once, adapted it another time, but I honestly have more troubles bleeding the loop than testing it for leaks... didn't have a leak the first time I built a rig, is this really a common thing when you build say 5 loops? 2 of them leaking? Serious question.

I had two leaks in a space of 12 years. The first one was a major one that ruined my entire system, the second one was very minor. Obviously I started rigorously testing for leaks after the first accident. Shouldn't have problems bleeding a loop with a reservoir, always best to use one imo. As for the leaks themselves, that depends on a great many things. Sometimes things just fail, sometimes they don't fit just right - live and learn. As long as it doesn't happen when the system is running, you're all good 😉

I've had one leak and that was due to POS rotary fittings when i had soft tubing. Since then, the past two years have been leak free using 14mm Barrow hardline compression fittings (3 o-rings each) and Bitspower Crystal-link acrylic tubing. Which reminds me, i need to pull the crappy AlphaCool reservoir out and replace it with a much higher quality barrow reservoir. The thin acrylic alphacool res is developing some fine cracks top and bottom at the threads where the tube meets the end pieces due to me probably over tightening it. Should probably blitz the system while ive got it drained.