Couldn't decide if this was a tale of fail, or a tale of win, so it's going in here.
I bought all the bits I needed to build a new WC loop, after an unfortunate incident resulted in the effective death of my Apogee pump/block - one of the moulded barbs snapped off, in rather messy fashion. (Heavy handed,
hamfisted fail)
The replacement, and additional, parts included a DDC pump plus a swiftech res and XSPC res top from Saspro, a second rad, a fullcover gpu block and various bits and fittings. (Bargin purchases -
win)
Anyhoo, the loop is now up and running and, last night, I turned my attention to the broken Apogee drive. I blame myself for lack of research, but I didn't realise it was just an upsidedown DDC attached to a fancy bit of moulding and cpu block. Needless to say, I could have just bought a res top and saved some cash. (p!ss poor research -
fail)
So, I have a working pump body, and a spare DDC pump top (from the DDC I bought from sas). Surprise, surprise, it fits perfectly and I now have a second DDC pump, and the potential to run separate loops for the CPU and GPU.
(extra geeky fun -
win)
Although, that would mean dismantling and repiping the newly completed loop.
(extra buggeration -
fail sort of)
