I have a replacement but lmao I am never fucking with closed circuit liquid cooling setups afterwards. just give me a fan and a heat sink
nothing more anxiety inducing than taking the CPU out of the socket, gently wiping off the thermal paste, then clamping it back on hoping you didn't fuck up anything in the process.
well it seems to work fine, knock on wood, going to wait until doing anything gamery with it so I know that it's fine. I guess if this cooler fails I can get a heatsink like I wanted to