Repairing/maintenance on my PC
It’s been quite some time since I last gave any real attention to my PC — the system I use daily for gaming, general use, and photo editing for the blog (albeit poorly). During a routine gaming session the other day while playing Battlefield 6, my PC hard locked several times. I glanced over at my Turzx 8.8" LCD screen and noticed my CPU temperatures were sitting in the mid-80°C range. That immediately raised concerns since the system is running a custom water-cooling loop. After rebooting the PC, I ran several stress tests and confirmed the temperatures remained consistently in the mid-80s under full load. Following some diagnostic work, I discovered that the EK DDC 3.2 pump mounted to my EK/Lian Li distro plate was failing. To be honest, I was never particularly impressed with EK’s variant of the DDC pump. It lacked PWM control, and the head pressure was noticeably weaker compared to the original Laing DDC 4.2 12V pump. Unfortunately, sourcing a genuine Laing DDC 4.2 PWM pump pr...
