Leaving on a water cooling system all the time.

Thus spake YanquiDawg:

  >>My question is I am thinking about running my computer 24/7 like I use
  >>to do. But now I have water cooling, is running the water cooling 24/7
  >>a bad thing?

 >Well, most water pumps don't last very long anyway so you'll probably have to
 >change it out more often.I went through 3 in 2.5 years with the pump only
 >running 1/2 a day every day.

What kind of pump were you using? I had a small fountain pump get
noisy after six months of 24/7 (still works though). But a bigger
better fountain pump (Beckett was the make I think) has been running
great for nearly three years and my Swiftech MCP600 has been on nearly
continuously for around two years.

If you have quality parts, 24/7 is no big deal. If you have cheap
part, their limited life span will be used up soon.

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Try the "AquaStream"-Pum from <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.aquacomputer.de" target="_blank">www.aquacomputer.de</a>
This pump is specially for use in computers. i have it, it works great!



"Satan's Little Sister" <littlesisterNO.TakeThisOut@SPAMsofthome.net> schrieb im
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 > Thus spake YanquiDawg:
 >
   >>>My question is I am thinking about running my computer 24/7 like I use
   >>>to do. But now I have water cooling, is running the water cooling 24/7
   >>>a bad thing?
 >
  >>Well, most water pumps don't last very long anyway so you'll probably have
  >>to
  >>change it out more often.I went through 3 in 2.5 years with the pump only
  >>running 1/2 a day every day.
 >
 > What kind of pump were you using? I had a small fountain pump get
 > noisy after six months of 24/7 (still works though). But a bigger
 > better fountain pump (Beckett was the make I think) has been running
 > great for nearly three years and my Swiftech MCP600 has been on nearly
 > continuously for around two years.
 >
 > If you have quality parts, 24/7 is no big deal. If you have cheap
 > part, their limited life span will be used up soon.
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They were ViaAqua (3500?). First it would make small noises then graduate to
grinding, then one just stopped dead. The others I took out before they died.
I can't figure the grinding considering they are magnetic pump and there's
really nothing to grind. They seem fairly clean when taken apart.A little white
residue on the barrel. But even after cleaning they still made noise.
I guess for the dough I blew I coulda got a really good eheim.
 >> Stay informed about: Leaving on a water cooling system all the time. 

Thus spake YanquiDawg:

 > They were ViaAqua

Yeah, they have a reputation. The impellers tend not to be well
balanced,. You get vibration, which causes the plastic bushing betwixt
the shaft and impeller magnet wear unevenly, which causes more
vibration, etc. Eventually the impeller is loose enough to hit the
sides of the pump chamber or the bushing wears enough for shaft to
magnet direct contact.

Same thing as what happened with my first little fountain pump.

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