Some liquid coolers are not very reliable. One in one of my two CyberPowers started leaking last year and the whole machine had to be sent back and completely rebuilt. The result was repacking, driving to depot/paying shipping and almost two months downtime. If this happens again I'm s--t out of luck.

I'd read about some of that happening with some units when I was reading reviews of different types and brands.

From what I can tell, nobody has and such problems with Koolance.

Their clamps are good, and also, all of their external and block connections are using professional type of leak-proof connections (when filled, there can be a drop or two of leakage when disconnected, but that's it, and only during connect/disconnect.

Using a truly non-conducting liquid is the key in case of a leak. Despite the reviews, I'm careful to use non-conducting liquid. Don't use water, because even distilled water will gain conductivity as it passes across the metal in the blocks. When dealing with large water-cooled tubes, you are supposed to check the water conductivity on a regular basis (don't want ten to thirty thousand volts in the water), and from that experience, I choose not to use water.

The stuff I use is non-reactive and non-toxic. I've never had to deal with it, but in case of a major leak, they claim that a motherboard will continue to operate normal (assuming it doesn't fry due to lack of cooling).

Here's the stuff I'm using: Fluid XP+ Extreme Non-Conductive 32 oz. Liquid Cooling Fluid (UV ALIEN GREEN) from ArcticMod.

Boincstats has not yet shown a SETI update, but by their own posted numbers, their most recent daily update is almost 22 hours old at this moment.

My stats there are only partly updated; there are big spikes (at least 20,000 higher than usual) in the daily credit graphs but no corresponding numbers … I guess it’s just taking a while for their servers to update all the tables.

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Just wondering when the world statistics will be updated? It has been 7 days now and after reading this thread I still don't know what is going on??

Just wondering when the world statistics will be updated? It has been 7 days now and after reading this thread I still don't know what is going on??

The stats have been available for over 24hrs now, but may have not been processed on your favourite stats site. On BOINCstats nearly 240 million credits were added to the Seti totals yesterday. And my account there has gone up 20k+.

Andy

Some liquid coolers are not very reliable. One in one of my two CyberPowers started leaking last year and the whole machine had to be sent back and completely rebuilt. The result was repacking, driving to depot/paying shipping and almost two months downtime. If this happens again I'm s--t out of luck.

Here's the stuff I'm using: Fluid XP+ Extreme Non-Conductive 32 oz. Liquid Cooling Fluid (UV ALIEN GREEN) from ArcticMod.

The stuff that leaked from my machine was green. It ran out of the case and damaged the tabletop some. I have a feeling that either Cooler Master or CyberPower (if it had had to disassemble the cooler) was to blame for the problem. Maybe the gaskets were broken or folded, or there was dirt there on assembly. Or maybe the bolts/screws/rivets weren't properly tightened. It appeared that most everything was replaced. Maybe it wasn't electrical conductivity but corrosion potential that caused the need for complete rebuild. A little probably splashed up onto the motherboard, and possibly more dripped because the machine was tilted during transport back to CyberPower.

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