My Swiftech MCW60 Block Melted

[jellymonster]

Hi,

after purchasing my MCW60 GPU block in January. Yesterday is decided to melt and piss coolant all over my computer >_>.

I have been monitoring the temperatures of both CPU and GPU (same loop) and both seemed fine.

Even so, surely the GPU should cut out before reaching the blocks melting point?

I'm just wondering if anyone has had anything like this happen before or why this would happen?

JM

 

[bomberboysk]

Do you have pictures of the block? Contact Gabe at swiftech with pictures of the block, and see if you can't get an explanation and a replacement.

 

[jellymonster]

Ok, turns out the pump stopped working. The supplier has agreed to replace both the pump and block for me.

 

[ScottALot]

The plastic melted?

 

[jellymonster]

The plastic melted?

Yeah, aparently it's melting point is 160 celcius =S.
Supised my computer didn't cut out before then tbh

 

[ScottALot]

And you saw the area where it melted? If you can't see where it melted, maybe it didn't get to that temperature and instead the heat expanded some seal and the coolant leaked through there... later when the temps dropped again, it sealed up again?

 

[jellymonster]

And you saw the area where it melted? If you can't see where it melted, maybe it didn't get to that temperature and instead the heat expanded some seal and the coolant leaked through there... later when the temps dropped again, it sealed up again?

Nope, can definitely see the plastic has melted