Well hello folks. I have a little issue.
My corsair H100i v2 keeps frigging "falling off"
It's not falling off per say but every few days, especially after an Intense gaming session, I'll randomly get heat spikes. After a wee bit o' tinkering around, I found my heatsink was loose by about two turns on each screw. And since then, it's happened twice.... each time I see it pop to roughly 130f and I'll know what's up, screw them down and I'm back to 77f. My question. Is idk if it's the standoff or the nut. And was curious if someone could recommend an impermanent glue or something like plumbers tape that's non conductive and safe enough for both ends of the standoff. Or maybe a better solution

130f is ok man
and should not have any to keep re-screwing them

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Jul 10 2017 02:56pm

130f is not okay, are you drunk? 55c at idle is nuts, id open a tab practically hit 70c, let alone the noise....
and the second is evident.

but on another note, plumbers tape is non conductive, now i just need to see average heat temps.... but given that water heaters and such CAN (not do) push water as hot as 150 or more

Just get some lock washers for the screws.

great idea
do you think that the tension needed to lock them exceeds the pressure that could damage my board in any way?

Well if you get the huge strong ones...then yeah. But they have smaller ones that take far less pressure to lock.

They sell both lock washers and star washers....individually at Home Depot.


This link is just so you can see what they look like...

http://www.homedepot.com/p/TradesPro-Lock-Spring-and-Star-Washer-Assortment-720-Piece-835795/204505310


/e There's also this...it works great but use just a tiny bit...a very tiny bit...

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Loctite-0-2-fl-oz-Threadlocker-Blue-242-209728/100371826

This post was edited by Ghot on Jul 10 2017 08:43pm

i went to home depot it was awful had to talk to like 3 diff employees to figure out where the shims are
and there's no earthly reason for it being so vertically big nothing reaches that high

This post was edited by DCSS on Jul 10 2017 08:42pm

hahaha truest speak ever spoke...
im not exactly a patient person, mostly because people defy logic but i honestly stick to instore pickup for almost everything. every decent promo is buried under 12 tons of shit in the loft and takes a half hour to sort through

thank you so much ghot, i seriously appreciate it. i wanted to try locktite but i was under the impression it was super permanent (iv never used it) but looking at it now it makes a bit more sense