The Curious Case of the Color Changing Coolant!

Been a while Digital Storm Forums!

Salangsang here. I had a couple of threads a while back regarding my Bolt 3. It's been a dream so far.

However, I recently stumbled upon an irksome issue: the color of the liquid inside my LC loop has changed from red to dirty yellow. Should I be worried? Is some chemical reaction going to implode the solar system because my fluid has shifted color?

Here are some before and after shots:

Day One (July 1st, 2016)


This first image is a screencap of a video I took (hence the slight blurriness). Nevertheless, the fluid is pretty clearly identifiable as red.

Current State (December 29th, 2016)


This second image was taken with my phone camera. Flash was on and the fluid is evidently YELLOW. Without flash, you cannot see the liquid very well. One thing to note is that this color change is not noticeable when my purple LED strips are on.

I do not know exactly when this shift occurred. All I can say is, so far, there has been no performance dip. Thus, this issue seems benign (until further notice).

Now I put it out to you, the esteemed gentleblokes of the Digital Storm forums.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Salangsang

Originally posted by bprat22 Heat, contaminates and oxidation can alter the fluid.  Not sure what it is in your case, but give DS a call and ask them.   Let us know.

Thanks for the info, Bprat22!

Since you mention heat, I feel that might be a culprit (I've put this thing through some serious Star Wars Battlefront marathons at max settings!)

I'll update this thread when I get the chance to contact Digital Storm.

Cheers!
Salangsang

Thanks for the input!

I actually don't have a lot of time right now because of college applications and school, so marking out a time slot to deal with this will be tricky.

I definitely the overclock/daily workload is pretty intense: I have been pushing 2050mhz on the core and 11000mhz on the memory.

--Salangsang

Acetylide,

My temperatures are pretty good actually. In Star Wars: Battlefront, my most demanding game, my GTX 1080 usually settles between 54-57 degrees Celsius depending on the map. As for my CPU, again depending on the map, temperatures will hover between 72-80 degrees celsius.

The CPU seems a little high to me, but it is on the same loop as the GPU, which I think might be why.

--Salangsang