David Zhang thanks on this upload, always wanted to try this but not worth voiding any warranty. Why would they do copper and not aluminum or titanium? For the contact pad that meets the processor.
Keller weskier lol mineral oil submerged pcs require much more maintenance. Not saying it's bad just saying most people want something they can install and leave in for months to years.
I never trust closed loops, and after seeing this video, my concerns are validated. All that crap coming from the rad is enough to screw up the pump. Even on custom water loops, its always good to flush new radiators, many brands do not even bother with this in the manufacture process. Still, good video. Thanks for sharing.
My Corsair h115i developed this same problem in just over a year. Currently have my i7 5820k idling at 58c @ 1.16ghz... AIOs have always been a bit of a gamble in my experience.
Finally someone explained this in a non-confusing way :P Thanks for the breakdown! Might buy one soon cause my air cooler is making my room practically a sauna.
Old post, but CPU coolers do the job of moving heat from the CPU, and into the room the computer is in. There's no magic to get rid of heat. Which is why server labs have to move the heat out of the room, somewhere else. I have thought before, it would be nice to vent the PC's heat outside, or move it underground. I once saw someone with a mobile home, dig a hole, for a water tank in the ground, and build a cooling solution around that.
+David Zhang I am thinking of buying a used closed system, but it might need to have the liquid changed. So when I typed this into youtube search, this was one of the top videos. Your video is very informative on this subject. I like how you explained what you were taking apart, and what to look for in case I do buy the used closed loop system. Good video all around.
+Ervin Goss Thanks for the comment. Although I'd just like to say that I don't recommend you change the liquid in a closed loop (unless it is one of those expandable setups) Filling these back up is extremely difficult as the fill port typically requires a high pressure injection to remove most of the air. It's not impossible just extremely difficult without a reservoir or a port to bleed air. Good luck!
David, I literally just went through almost this exact issue. I also have the same cooler as you, the Antek Kuhler 920. So mine started making impeller failing noises after i had cleaned out the system one day. I was stressed and worried that I had to replace it, so I waited a day. The next day I took mine apart like you did. Mine was not clogged like yours, but you can see the same issue is happening as they seem to use Antifreeze (based on the smell). I cleaned out my motor, cleaned out the fin array, and started to reassemble the pump. I used a small syringe to add distilled water to the pump before closing it up so the impeller had something to pup once it started back up. Reassembled and am currently back up and running on the same system. Their is still a small heat issue as I am running at idle 43c (109f). But once under load don't really get all that much hotter. I do plan on going custom loop on my next build, but if I do keep this cooler for another PC, I will be flushing and replacing the coolant in the system with proper coolant from EK (as it's a much cleaner and less likely to fail solution). Now you said that it is difficult to add liquid to the loop, but this is not true. You can flush the system with distilled water, you would just need a large plastic syringe to push new liquid through one tube, the radiator and out the other. Assemble, and then do as I did, just add more water by pushing water into the system to push all the air out before assembly.
This is the best breakdown I've seen. Seriously. I'd watched like 10 useless videos before I got here. Btw. If a pump fails, what happens to the PC components? Are they immediately damaged?
I really wish they'd use clear tubes or a flow sensor or SOMETHING to make it easier to catch when the cooler is starting to go. It's easy to see/hear when a fan is failing, but you can't always just look/listen to your computer to detect a that your liquid loop is starting to not be a loop anymore lol.
2 questions: 1. Do prebuilt PCs typically come pre-filled? Are the cooling systems always pre-filled? 2. How could debris get in the system like yours?
You probably could but you'd have to bleed the system of air bubbles when resealing the system. Air in the system causes improper cooling / temperature fluxuations, the less the better. AIO's don't have a purge valve so you'd have to make one yourself. Pretty much works like a car radiator.
Many CPU coolers have a filling port on the side of the block/pump. You just need to find a corresponding nozzle online (Ebay for instance). I had to replace the liquid in my Corsair H60 once, and it was VERY much clogged. But DO NOT take it apart for fun, it's a messy job that is OBVIOUSLY going to ruin your warranty.
You can refill. I did it with mine. Although, I wouldn't recommend using the fluid I chose. Although, I'll probably replace it if I notice any issues down the road with it. I'll get some distilled water. When I shot my video it was late at night and I just wanted to move along with the project so I used 50/50 diluted anti-freeze. I read that if you go this route you should do a mix of 1 part anti-freeze and 9 parts distilled water.
Steve Vachaviolos I didn't want to replace anything, just get it working again. I did bleed the system about 5 times. That might be a project for the future if the system gets clogged up again.
Good Fan cooler are so much reliable than those CPU liquid cooler and work great too at high temperature. So what't the point at the end unless you plan to choose your CPU cooler every 3 years.
uhhh, you could have just cleaned out the micro fins, flushed out the loop and refilled, boom fixed. The pump is obviously working, just debris clogging up. The debris you got is due to the coolant being an ethoyl-glycol (probably spelt wrong) mix which is know to react with plastics. Alphacool and many others have premixed solutions by the liter on the cheap. Great video!
Would you risk putting this back together only to spring a leak and damage your expensive components? Worst part is that you've probably voided the warranty by opening it up.
I just wanted to know how an AIO works, but I was a little bit in doubt, if someone makes Videos like this or not, but fortunately, a very good video is here ! Thanks for making such a nice Video bro...
You can easily clean the contact find inside with lemon juice and blow clean with air . Since your motor work fine just refill with new fluid , just be sure to run it through a coffee filter to remove any hidden debris. Also can test with cooler removed to check flow before reinstalling.
Your pump being hot isn't a sign of failure. You have to actively check the temperature of the processor under load to really determine if the pump is failing. It's actually understandable for the pump to actively be hot, and manufacturers know this and design their components to withstand said heat. If the pump is failing you'd see idle temperatures of like 60-70C. The fact that you were able to turn on the pump and the rotor began to spin means the pump is perfectly functional.
nice video! that fluid was supposed to be green or blue like the most anti-freeze fluids...actually i think is the same fluid as the engine coolant on a car but i am not sure...Anyway i need one detail if you can give me... i have the h60 cooling about 5 years now :P yours h60 how old is it? i have start to thinking that i must change that fluid...
That foam is not for noise and vibration. It works like a expansion tank. But instead of bubble of air it is a foam. Bubble in pump is problem. Foam does not travel through loop.
Thanks for the video! My cooler also failed a while back and i'm taking it apart now to find out why it broke Did you ever find out where the debris came from? I'm thinking friction from some part of the impeller spinning grinds it up. or it's poor quality and the hoses degrade somehow?
really nice video, awesome video and audio quality. also it is only around 4 minuts...hate this unnecessary long videos... would you like to make a video where you show how you record and editing?
+alberto9911 Honestly I'm still learning so it would be silly for me to try and teach this stuff right now. I guess because I have a short attention span myself I don't enjoy making long videos. The big guys (eg. MKBHD, TLD, Austin, HardwareCanucks) provide a lot of inspiration and information on this stuff already so definitely check them out. Thanks for the comment.
Awesome video!!!!!!!! very informative!!! i always wanted to know whats inside one. will be getting an AIO cpu cooler to try. i've never used one before.
+PaciDrifter Yeah I couldn't take the stock fan anymore. I had some custom liquid cooling gear laying around so I just rigged up a quick loop for my CPU. It's pretty ugly in my case right now. lol. I do enjoy building custom loops but in the end I always just prefer a zero maintenance air cooling setup.
Very informative video. I was curious how the heat fins and reservoir cycled the fluid (as I thought, through heat pipes to the opposite side of the cooler, and back, for maximum surface area). Thanks!
Nice looking AIO, seems to have been well made. My cooler just died, maybe I should take it apart like you did. It made a lot of noise before dying ( I thought the noise was from hard drives, because that's what it sounded like, and I use some hard drives still, due to the cheap cost, for more storage for games.) I wonder what caused the debris in the coolant?
i have exactly that CPU cooler. the problem is that tape and glue one the cold plate, you see it at 1:15 . my cooler went crazy the other day so i took it apart and it was full of that glue, i washed it out and removed the tape and cleaned the coldplate. then i fill it with normal water, while it was turned on and screw the cold plate back on, it sound and works like it was brand new again
I hope you washed your hands after touching that stock HSF! Cool vid, couldn't you just flush and re assemble the AIO if the pump is actually functioning and its just flow rates? You sure its glycol based coolant as well? Apparently (im relatively new to water cooling) some plastics have issues with glycol based solution's. I use a non-glycol based racing coolant 50/50 with distilled water in the custom loop i have.No discoloration or any other issues to speak of in the couple of months its been in use.
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i have this same cooler a few years now. Is this what i will be expecting over time? Btw i didn't notice any cooling problems?
Its nice that you didnt get a $140 cooler and did that. And you got a $40. Finally a tech tuber that doesnt waste and throw away 1080ti's like their garbage
Well I can say my 7 year 240 mm aio is still kicking i opened it and man it needed a change it was permeating but its still running and for many more years to come
Do you have any idea where I can get a cold plate to replace mine? I'm having no luck at all. For the EVGA GTX 1080/1070 Hybrid Waterblock Cooler. Thanks in advance.
David Zhang:: Running into your video, after long research was a relief, thank you, i just have a question, from my understanding, they last from 2 to 3 years, then they need to be replaced??? and the most important question for me, do these Liquid Coolant Radiators AIO come with Liquid solution Ready to just install ?? Hope you Can reply, it's important for me to know this?? and thank you again for the video.
my aio liquid cooler says the rad can also be mounted on the outside of the case. but if you can't take in apart how are you meant to feed the block back inside the case.
This is the thermaltake cpu cooler. I have the 3 fan rad model myself.. hope this doesn't happen to mine :O How long did you have yours before it carked it?
I used to braze these for a living . The heater as we called them is made of brass and sometimes copper . Both good heat conducted .unfortunately the EU buracrats decided that soldering and most importantly acid flu was not the best way to solder the heater snd banned in the EU .the cores are pretty made from manufactures then we added the brass tanks and bottoms with a baffle separating the inlet and outlet .so liquid flows through the whole core thus cooling the heat around it
That is just a few more reasons why I don't want to switch to water cooling solutions. Water cooling solutions are unreliable because of that tiny magnetic impeller. That impeller dies when the circuit dies and then u have a hunk of metal that is over heating on one end and cool on the other (It would have still have potential if it was passively cooling by convection motion but it doesn't) causing ur cpu to throttle and shut down. I am sticking with air coolers until they finally make a practical design for a CPU Peltier coolers. Those thermoelectric coolers came out around the time of the 1st gen i7 and have a working life of upto 22 years without moving parts.
Hey david if you this, Did your black tubes on your cooler get hot? You mentioned that your pump head was hot however Im having a somewhat different issue. Sudden high temps and my pc shut down a screen that flashed by so fast that all I could make out was CPU over tempature! I immediatly took my pc apart to discover that one of the 2 tubes were Scorching HOT! the other tube was and is cold. Pump head is cool, radiator is cold. so wth? I changed the thermal paste still hot. I have i7-4790k OC
Tubes were warm/hot close to the pump, but were pretty cool for the rest of the tube length. If your entire tube is hot it sounds like it's at least moving the hot water but getting stuck somewhere else. Maybe an air bubble or a clog in your radiator.
Is It possible to remove the cold plate without spilling water im pretty sure i have a build up in my cold plate output filter and this is resulting in low performance please i really need help i cant find anything on the internet that answers this!
Clean the base with some mild acid. You can run for a while (20 mins) with the circuit filled with water and a mild acid...it will dissolve any kind of calcium debree. Then run it with clean water then fill it with 70% distilled water and 30% ammonia (prevents any algae and bacteria to form).
Ahhh the Water 2.0...I had an issue with mine recently. Just tapped on the pipes a bit and the water started flowing normally again. My question is how can DEBRIS get inside a closed loop?! Unless the debris is parts of the cooler itself breaking down into the water D:
I have a first generation H50 from 2010 and it's still working fine. I imagine that since mine is slightly older than yours, it would have more of the debris circulating in the loop. When do you think I will have to replace it?
It's really a luck of the draw. As long as your temps are fine and noise is adequate I wouldn't plan on replacing it any time soon. It's like a car. Some are lemons and some outlast our own lifespans, but you can usually tell when they are starting to fail when your temps and noise start getting worse.
PLS HELP: I got TWO evga 1080 Ti Sc2 cards with stock AIO coolers. Both have now failed to cool. Card is 90°C hot, but both hoses and also the radiator is completly cold. So I suppose the liquid just stopped to flow. IT happened suddenly, without any noises. Any ideas how to try to save/repair them? Open it up and clean? Or remove propelers and convert to custom water loop? Or use aftermarket air colers? Thanks for any advice!
Thanks for uploading this, much easier to understand how a liquid cooler works
np!
David Zhang thanks on this upload, always wanted to try this but not worth voiding any warranty. Why would they do copper and not aluminum or titanium? For the contact pad that meets the processor.
dont use water please. its dangerous. use mineral oil, it flows better, non conductive, and has a better life span on the cooler
Keller weskier lol mineral oil submerged pcs require much more maintenance. Not saying it's bad just saying most people want something they can install and leave in for months to years.
copper conducts the heat way better then both of these.
Oh look, it's a lil pump
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I never trust closed loops, and after seeing this video, my concerns are validated. All that crap coming from the rad is enough to screw up the pump. Even on custom water loops, its always good to flush new radiators, many brands do not even bother with this in the manufacture process. Still, good video. Thanks for sharing.
Luckly, a LOT changed in the past 7 years...
Nice, thanks for the teardown!
I am a faaaaaan!!! never thought I'd bump into your comment on a random yt vid!! I hope you'll comeback in the yt community.
My Corsair h115i developed this same problem in just over a year. Currently have my i7 5820k idling at 58c @ 1.16ghz... AIOs have always been a bit of a gamble in my experience.
What cooler are you using now? How did get your temps so low?
Finally someone explained this in a non-confusing way :P Thanks for the breakdown! Might buy one soon cause my air cooler is making my room practically a sauna.
your room isn't gonna get any cooler from an AIO pump tho :/
@@alecmnatzakanian5246 heck, if the AIO is doing its job well, it may heat up his room even more lol
Old post, but CPU coolers do the job of moving heat from the CPU, and into the room the computer is in. There's no magic to get rid of heat. Which is why server labs have to move the heat out of the room, somewhere else. I have thought before, it would be nice to vent the PC's heat outside, or move it underground. I once saw someone with a mobile home, dig a hole, for a water tank in the ground, and build a cooling solution around that.
How many months/years did you used that ?
amazing engineering
Clean it and refill it. I bet it'll be fine.
Yea i want to see that too. Wont be that hard but very interesting.
Its hard to get that clogging out
+xGxPhantom Zzz what about using radiator flush additive that is commonly used in cars?
try to backflush
refill with ??
+David Zhang
I am thinking of buying a used closed system, but it might need to have the liquid changed. So when I typed this into youtube search, this was one of the top videos. Your video is very informative on this subject. I like how you explained what you were taking apart, and what to look for in case I do buy the used closed loop system. Good video all around.
+Ervin Goss Thanks for the comment. Although I'd just like to say that I don't recommend you change the liquid in a closed loop (unless it is one of those expandable setups) Filling these back up is extremely difficult as the fill port typically requires a high pressure injection to remove most of the air. It's not impossible just extremely difficult without a reservoir or a port to bleed air. Good luck!
Great vid man, clear, concise, quick, without alot of BS that other vids have.
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Thanks!
David, I literally just went through almost this exact issue. I also have the same cooler as you, the Antek Kuhler 920. So mine started making impeller failing noises after i had cleaned out the system one day. I was stressed and worried that I had to replace it, so I waited a day. The next day I took mine apart like you did. Mine was not clogged like yours, but you can see the same issue is happening as they seem to use Antifreeze (based on the smell). I cleaned out my motor, cleaned out the fin array, and started to reassemble the pump. I used a small syringe to add distilled water to the pump before closing it up so the impeller had something to pup once it started back up. Reassembled and am currently back up and running on the same system. Their is still a small heat issue as I am running at idle 43c (109f). But once under load don't really get all that much hotter. I do plan on going custom loop on my next build, but if I do keep this cooler for another PC, I will be flushing and replacing the coolant in the system with proper coolant from EK (as it's a much cleaner and less likely to fail solution). Now you said that it is difficult to add liquid to the loop, but this is not true. You can flush the system with distilled water, you would just need a large plastic syringe to push new liquid through one tube, the radiator and out the other. Assemble, and then do as I did, just add more water by pushing water into the system to push all the air out before assembly.
This is the best breakdown I've seen. Seriously. I'd watched like 10 useless videos before I got here. Btw. If a pump fails, what happens to the PC components? Are they immediately damaged?
It would be more great if you add "How to re-assemble and re-fill the liquid"
What is that suppose to be? Greater? much great? Ah yes.. "Better".. Am i getting close?
It would be great if ------
Just play the video backwards
@@yahtadi5152 Greater should be the word, but you would probably know that by now lol
Play the video backwards
Wow, this video is informative yet elegant at the same time. Great work!
I really wish they'd use clear tubes or a flow sensor or SOMETHING to make it easier to catch when the cooler is starting to go. It's easy to see/hear when a fan is failing, but you can't always just look/listen to your computer to detect a that your liquid loop is starting to not be a loop anymore lol.
2 questions: 1. Do prebuilt PCs typically come pre-filled? Are the cooling systems always pre-filled? 2. How could debris get in the system like yours?
I think heat sinks are best because of the least chance for a liquid leakage that can result in serious damage to valuable parts of the CPU.
Well done, nice editing, clear speech and informative. Kudos.
After taking it apart is it possible to clean it and refill it?
You probably could but you'd have to bleed the system of air bubbles when resealing the system. Air in the system causes improper cooling / temperature fluxuations, the less the better. AIO's don't have a purge valve so you'd have to make one yourself. Pretty much works like a car radiator.
Many CPU coolers have a filling port on the side of the block/pump. You just need to find a corresponding nozzle online (Ebay for instance). I had to replace the liquid in my Corsair H60 once, and it was VERY much clogged. But DO NOT take it apart for fun, it's a messy job that is OBVIOUSLY going to ruin your warranty.
You can refill. I did it with mine. Although, I wouldn't recommend using the fluid I chose. Although, I'll probably replace it if I notice any issues down the road with it. I'll get some distilled water. When I shot my video it was late at night and I just wanted to move along with the project so I used 50/50 diluted anti-freeze. I read that if you go this route you should do a mix of 1 part anti-freeze and 9 parts distilled water.
Steve Vachaviolos I didn't want to replace anything, just get it working again. I did bleed the system about 5 times. That might be a project for the future if the system gets clogged up again.
project for another day :)
Good Fan cooler are so much reliable than those CPU liquid cooler and work great too at high temperature.
So what't the point at the end unless you plan to choose your CPU cooler every 3 years.
uhhh, you could have just cleaned out the micro fins, flushed out the loop and refilled, boom fixed. The pump is obviously working, just debris clogging up. The debris you got is due to the coolant being an ethoyl-glycol (probably spelt wrong) mix which is know to react with plastics. Alphacool and many others have premixed solutions by the liter on the cheap. Great video!
Yeah I don't get that either. He just could do that indeed.
Would you risk putting this back together only to spring a leak and damage your expensive components? Worst part is that you've probably voided the warranty by opening it up.
Thanks for the info, i did want to see how the pumps work
Great video! I like the way you treat the equipment with respect and precise hand moviments
Awesome video, exactly what I need to learn for my research on CPU cooling.
This was super interesting and also very well made! Thank you
Thanks for uploading this
Curiosity satisfied. Many thanks! Quick and simple explanation.
I found this on PCMR, and I'm glad that I did. Great video, bubba.
+Jon N Thanks man!
I just wanted to know how an AIO works, but I was a little bit in doubt, if someone makes Videos like this or not, but fortunately, a very good video is here !
Thanks for making such a nice Video bro...
Detailed video, thanks for sharing
Best short video watched and explained perfectly 👌
Thank you I always wondered what was inside one of those and how they exactly scientifically worked
god help us this is the only video after fourteen i looked at that even begins to address the parts inside and how the pump works. thanks
Amazing quality video as always!! 300+ subs and rocking it like 300k!! keep it up bro!
and 5 years later he's in 300k!
after video ends he would have searched "' How cpu liquid cooler is fixed again " hahaha
He's buying a new one bruh
great video quality and you are good in explaining stuff.
My dumb self really thought it was pumping water
You can easily clean the contact find inside with lemon juice and blow clean with air . Since your motor work fine just refill with new fluid , just be sure to run it through a coffee filter to remove any hidden debris. Also can test with cooler removed to check flow before reinstalling.
Excellent tear down, nice and constructive description.
how do you remove the 2 pipes from the radiator?
Awesome teardown thank you!
Well done. short, to the point & I actually learned something. Thank You
Excellent video !!!
Your pump being hot isn't a sign of failure. You have to actively check the temperature of the processor under load to really determine if the pump is failing. It's actually understandable for the pump to actively be hot, and manufacturers know this and design their components to withstand said heat.
If the pump is failing you'd see idle temperatures of like 60-70C. The fact that you were able to turn on the pump and the rotor began to spin means the pump is perfectly functional.
very clean and educated well put together video, very under rated youtuber, you sir deserve 1 million subs. +1 subscriber
great video, i always wanted to know how the pump works
nice video! that fluid was supposed to be green or blue like the most anti-freeze fluids...actually i think is the same fluid as the engine coolant on a car but i am not sure...Anyway i need one detail if you can give me... i have the h60 cooling about 5 years now :P yours h60 how old is it? i have start to thinking that i must change that fluid...
That foam is not for noise and vibration. It works like a expansion tank. But instead of bubble of air it is a foam. Bubble in pump is problem. Foam does not travel through loop.
Thanks for this video because i been trying to look and see how AIO coolers work. I'm a new PC builder and i'm always curious how things work.
Thanks for the video! My cooler also failed a while back and i'm taking it apart now to find out why it broke
Did you ever find out where the debris came from? I'm thinking friction from some part of the impeller spinning grinds it up. or it's poor quality and the hoses degrade somehow?
really nice video, awesome video and audio quality. also it is only around 4 minuts...hate this unnecessary long videos...
would you like to make a video where you show how you record and editing?
+alberto9911 Honestly I'm still learning so it would be silly for me to try and teach this stuff right now. I guess because I have a short attention span myself I don't enjoy making long videos. The big guys (eg. MKBHD, TLD, Austin, HardwareCanucks) provide a lot of inspiration and information on this stuff already so definitely check them out. Thanks for the comment.
2:34 is what I was looking for. Thanks
Awesome video!!!!!!!! very informative!!! i always wanted to know whats inside one. will be getting an AIO cpu cooler to try. i've never used one before.
I would also suggest maybe building a custom loop if you are interested in those things as it really makes your pc feel custom
+PaciDrifter Yeah I couldn't take the stock fan anymore. I had some custom liquid cooling gear laying around so I just rigged up a quick loop for my CPU. It's pretty ugly in my case right now. lol. I do enjoy building custom loops but in the end I always just prefer a zero maintenance air cooling setup.
i was looking for this..thanx man
Very informative video. I was curious how the heat fins and reservoir cycled the fluid (as I thought, through heat pipes to the opposite side of the cooler, and back, for maximum surface area). Thanks!
Great video. Thank you!
now i understand how it works, thanks guys
Thanks for Teardown. Now I know how it words.
Very informative.. Thank you mate,
I love you! thanks sooooo much. this video scratched exactly what i wanted to know
Great vid mate! Just got my first liquid cooled cooler. Cheers ;)
Nice looking AIO, seems to have been well made. My cooler just died, maybe I should take it apart like you did. It made a lot of noise before dying ( I thought the noise was from hard drives, because that's what it sounded like, and I use some hard drives still, due to the cheap cost, for more storage for games.) I wonder what caused the debris in the coolant?
very informative.. much thanks for doing this vid
i have exactly that CPU cooler. the problem is that tape and glue one the cold plate, you see it at 1:15 . my cooler went crazy the other day so i took it apart and it was full of that glue, i washed it out and removed the tape and cleaned the coldplate. then i fill it with normal water, while it was turned on and screw the cold plate back on, it sound and works like it was brand new again
I hope you washed your hands after touching that stock HSF!
Cool vid, couldn't you just flush and re assemble the AIO if the pump is actually functioning and its just flow rates?
You sure its glycol based coolant as well? Apparently (im relatively new to water cooling) some plastics have issues with glycol based solution's. I use a non-glycol based racing coolant 50/50 with distilled water in the custom loop i have.No discoloration or any other issues to speak of in the couple of months its been in use.
i have this same cooler a few years now. Is this what i will be expecting over time? Btw i didn't notice any cooling problems?
Its nice that you didnt get a $140 cooler and did that. And you got a $40. Finally a tech tuber that doesnt waste and throw away 1080ti's like their garbage
I will subscribe because of this! Very informative video! Thanks!
Well I can say my 7 year 240 mm aio is still kicking i opened it and man it needed a change it was permeating but its still running and for many more years to come
Do you have any idea where I can get a cold plate to replace mine? I'm having no luck at all. For the EVGA GTX 1080/1070 Hybrid Waterblock Cooler. Thanks in advance.
Will you rebuilt it? You can try pushing some compressed air through the radiator to see what comes out.
David Zhang:: Running into your video, after long research was a relief, thank you, i just have a question, from my understanding, they last from 2 to 3 years, then they need to be replaced??? and the most important question for me, do these Liquid Coolant Radiators AIO come with Liquid solution Ready to just install ?? Hope you Can reply, it's important for me to know this?? and thank you again for the video.
Thank you so much for doing this! I've been looking for reference so I can mod mine with a hardline tubbing ;)
my aio liquid cooler says the rad can also be mounted on the outside of the case. but if you can't take in apart how are you meant to feed the block back inside the case.
This is the thermaltake cpu cooler. I have the 3 fan rad model myself.. hope this doesn't happen to mine :O How long did you have yours before it carked it?
I used to braze these for a living . The heater as we called them is made of brass and sometimes copper . Both good heat conducted .unfortunately the EU buracrats decided that soldering and most importantly acid flu was not the best way to solder the heater snd banned in the EU .the cores are pretty made from manufactures then we added the brass tanks and bottoms with a baffle separating the inlet and outlet .so liquid flows through the whole core thus cooling the heat around it
nice bro... thanks for uploding
If I was to make an sff case and a really short loop from cpu block to gpu block to a 240mm rad, would an aio's pump be strong enough for that?
That is just a few more reasons why I don't want to switch to water cooling solutions. Water cooling solutions are unreliable because of that tiny magnetic impeller. That impeller dies when the circuit dies and then u have a hunk of metal that is over heating on one end and cool on the other (It would have still have potential if it was passively cooling by convection motion but it doesn't) causing ur cpu to throttle and shut down. I am sticking with air coolers until they finally make a practical design for a CPU Peltier coolers. Those thermoelectric coolers came out around the time of the 1st gen i7 and have a working life of upto 22 years without moving parts.
Finally i can rest in peace
Do these require any special tool / screw driver? Is it just a Phillips
Thank you man
thanks for the vid!
Hey david if you this, Did your black tubes on your cooler get hot? You mentioned that your pump head was hot however Im having a somewhat different issue. Sudden high temps and my pc shut down a screen that flashed by so fast that all I could make out was CPU over tempature! I immediatly took my pc apart to discover that one of the 2 tubes were Scorching HOT! the other tube was and is cold. Pump head is cool, radiator is cold. so wth? I changed the thermal paste still hot. I have i7-4790k OC
Tubes were warm/hot close to the pump, but were pretty cool for the rest of the tube length. If your entire tube is hot it sounds like it's at least moving the hot water but getting stuck somewhere else. Maybe an air bubble or a clog in your radiator.
very good video...great job
Is It possible to remove the cold plate without spilling water im pretty sure i have a build up in my cold plate output filter and this is resulting in low performance please i really need help i cant find anything on the internet that answers this!
The rod is ceramic btw. Usually! These are all derived from fish tank pumps ;)
Clean the base with some mild acid. You can run for a while (20 mins) with the circuit filled with water and a mild acid...it will dissolve any kind of calcium debree. Then run it with clean water
then fill it with 70% distilled water and 30% ammonia (prevents any algae and bacteria to form).
nice video mann..
thanks for making this vid! very interesting!
Ahhh the Water 2.0...I had an issue with mine recently. Just tapped on the pipes a bit and the water started flowing normally again. My question is how can DEBRIS get inside a closed loop?! Unless the debris is parts of the cooler itself breaking down into the water D:
How are liquid volume changes compensated in an AIO? This must have been taken into account somehow.
I have a first generation H50 from 2010 and it's still working fine. I imagine that since mine is slightly older than yours, it would have more of the debris circulating in the loop. When do you think I will have to replace it?
It's really a luck of the draw. As long as your temps are fine and noise is adequate I wouldn't plan on replacing it any time soon. It's like a car. Some are lemons and some outlast our own lifespans, but you can usually tell when they are starting to fail when your temps and noise start getting worse.
Great video. I don’t understand How the liquid got dirty if it’s completely sealed. Do These liquid systems have frequent problems?
FINALLY THE VIDEO I WAS LOOKING FOR
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so after this video, that liquid cooler cannot be used again? or cannot be cleaned out and refill again??
PLS HELP: I got TWO evga 1080 Ti Sc2 cards with stock AIO coolers. Both have now failed to cool. Card is 90°C hot, but both hoses and also the radiator is completly cold. So I suppose the liquid just stopped to flow. IT happened suddenly, without any noises. Any ideas how to try to save/repair them? Open it up and clean? Or remove propelers and convert to custom water loop? Or use aftermarket air colers? Thanks for any advice!
Try custom water loop
Thank god i went for the aircooler nh-d15 instead of an AOI