AIO cooler

[LewisJB]

Hi I have just installed an AIO cooler and I am wanting to make sure the way the tubes are ok before I start my PC. Any help appreciated.

[kelvinhall05]

That shouldn't cause any problems, but why do you have it rotated that way? I'd turn it so the tubes on the rad are near the top so they have more slack and aren't pressing on the GPU.

[LewisJB]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

That shouldn't cause any problems, but why do you have it rotated that way? I'd turn it so the tubes on the rad are near the top so they have more slack and aren't pressing on the GPU.

I rotated it the with the tubes down due to something I watched on gamersnexus. Apparently have the tubes above the pump can cause the pump to run dry or something like that.

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, InspireFFS said:

I rotated it the with the tubes down due to something I watched on gamersnexus. Apparently have the tubes above the pump can cause the pump to run dry or something like that.

I haven't heard of something like that and myself and many, many others run top-mount rads (tubes above pump) for years with zero problems.

 

If anything I'd expect that tubes below the pump would cause this.

[RejZoR]

When AiO is new, it won't run dry. But as liquid evaporates, that might happen. The fans direction annoys me a bit more though. Unless you run some sort of inverted airflow, you're sucking the air from the case through radiator and out of the case...

[LewisJB]

Just now, RejZoR said:

When AiO is new, it won't run dry. But as liquid evaporates, that might happen. The fans direction annoys me a bit more though. Unless you run some sort of inverted airflow, you're sucking the air from the case through radiator and out of the case...

Ah... I just realised I put the fans the wrong round haha. Will have to sort that out before I do anything 

[kelvinhall05]

1 minute ago, InspireFFS said:

Ah... I just realised I put the fans the wrong round haha. Will have to sort that out before I do anything 

I'd pull the rad off, flip the fans around, and rotate the AIO so the tubes are at the top.

[SavageNeo]

will be fine. that is the way i would do that also.

[SavageNeo]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

I'd pull the rad off, flip the fans around, and rotate the AIO so the tubes are at the top.

it is better that the tubes are on the bottom rather than on the top. Gamers nexus did a video about this. tubes at top will not be that big of a problem but it is better that they are on the bottom

[RejZoR]

There are many issues here and will remain.

 

- fans have huge gap between radiator and fan frame which means air pressure leaking and lower airflow through radiator fin stack

- when fans will be flipped into push, I'd put them between case and radiator (problem with that is you'd move tubes even closer to graphic card)

 

I can't understand why AiO makers put fans without flat square frame on radiators. I've tried that by using SilentWings 3 which are otherwise great fans, but on radiator, they leak so much pressure.

[LewisJB]

Seems to be working so far. What sort of temps should I be expecting on a 5600x?

[LewisJB]

16 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

There are many issues here and will remain.

 

- fans have huge gap between radiator and fan frame which means air pressure leaking and lower airflow through radiator fin stack

- when fans will be flipped into push, I'd put them between case and radiator (problem with that is you'd move tubes even closer to graphic card)

 

I can't understand why AiO makers put fans without flat square frame on radiators. I've tried that by using SilentWings 3 which are otherwise great fans, but on radiator, they leak so much pressure.

I do always have the option of adding 2 more fans into the empty front part of the case, for a push pull config. Only problem would be trying to get screws so they can be mounted to the rad.