Flushing my 3XS System

[Freakywu]

3XS Systems Build Number: 31824, Invoice Number: 1764302.

Greetings,

I bought the above systems from yourselves a couple of year back. It's now out of warranty and the water cooling could really do with being flushed.
I've looked on the forums and seen the video for topping up the reservoir which was helpful but do you possibly have any other videos of flushing a system?
Or possibly a guide of some sort? I'm a little worried about doing it myself as I've never done it before, but I have to learn sometime!

Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Jason

[Macadee]

I'd recommend stripping it down and give it a thorough clean, you'll be amazed what accumulates inside after time.

Open up the water-blocks give them a scrub with a toothbrush or similar, replace the tubing if it looks manky or coated internally, and get some new fluid.

Perspex reservoirs clean up well with some water and uncooked rice, rads are easily flushed with vinegar then flushed with some hose and a tap / sink.

Can you post some photos of the components?

[Freakywu]

Thanks for the reply Macadee, I'll see if I can get some pictures posted tonight.

The problem I have is I literally have no idea where to start with flushing the system.
Do I remove the resevoir from the case by pulling it forward as shown in the topping up video, then remove one of the tubes and let the water flow out into a bucket?
I guess I should look at some youtube videos or something, I just thought this would be a good place to go for some friendly advice.

Thanks again

[Ben @ Scan]

Hi Freakywu

The best way to flush the system is take the top of the res and undo the lowest pipe and gravity will do the rest and drain the water for you into a bucket or tub, have plenty of cloths and kitchen roll handy to absord any water that escapes.

You can use clamps on the tubes to stop excess water escaping when you take the lowest tube off, you can get these from most hardware stores , I use the Irwin ones from B&Q for my system as I have the bigger tubing on my rig but it all depends on the diameter of the tubing which clamps are best

Use clear fluid or distilled water to flush the system through, you will also find that if there are blockages these usually are on the CPU and GPU blocks so you can take the blocks off and give them a good clean-out once the water is drained as advised above by Macadee

Regards

Ben