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Cleaned it as much as I could without doing more aggressive metal work... not sure if that's good enough to use again.

Interesting... I did notice the Corsair coolant was breaking down about 6 months into the loop's use, and did a flush and replacement then. Wonder what the failure's origin was.

This is after one year of use. I've only ever used Corsair's own coolant or distilled water & a water cooling additive. I'm assuming I still screwed something up for it to have gotten this bad - and you can see where the gasket didn't keep integrity (no water leakage, but the CPU block had a very small air leak). I also noticed on my radiators and all the fittings have a small amount of white residue on the threads. What's going on?

Thanks for the tips. And yeah, shimming with a couple of small washers on the front side did the trick for now!

Gianluca - I just installed one of these in my ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, and it fits fine. The motherboard's M.2 heatsink comes off and then the SSD+block go there directly. I didn't compare temp & performance with the heatsink versus the water cooling block, but the water cooling does keep the SSD drive quite cool (the temps never went above the water loop's own temp).

I'm using the Corsair XD5 pump/reservoir and the included mount to a 140mm fan. I'm disappointed at just how much the reservoir sags from its own weight. The mounting bracket metal is rather thin and weak, so I'm not super surprised it is doing this. Using the 120mm fan mount (horizontal) doesn't change anything given the pump mount is only held up by one side. Bending the metal so it's back to vertical doesn't last long. I'm hoping you can tell me I overlooked something on the install and there's a better way to keep the pump completely vertical! 😁