changing from air cooling to liquid cooling

[tunde]

so i recently bought a prebuilt with air cooling i was wandering if it was possible to change the cooling to water cooling

 

 

here is the link where i got my pc

HP Omen 30L Gaming PC (Intel Core i7-11700F/1TB SSD/16GB RAM/RTX 3070) | Best Buy Canada 

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, tunde said:

so i recently bought a prebuilt with air cooling i was wandering if it was possible to change the cooling to water cooling

 

 

here is the link where i got my pc

HP Omen 30L Gaming PC (Intel Core i7-11700F/1TB SSD/16GB RAM/RTX 3070) | Best Buy Canada 

Can you put a 240 rad across the top? I can't tell if the top has fan mounting locations...

 

If it has 2 120 fan locations, likely it would fit. BUT, looking at pix online all I see are single 120 AIO's mounted to the top. A good air cooler will do a lot better than a 120 AIO will, so I would go with a nice air cooler in this situation.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

You'll get a better increase in cooling performance for your money by replacing the case to something with a mesh front panel.

[1sascha]

Hard to say with the pics in the link you provided. You should probably check the case for potential mounting spots. Usually you'd mount it in the front or in the top, because I'm pretty sure that CPU needs a 240mm rad.

 

If there are mounting spots for fans in either the front or the top, you should be able to get a radiator in there ... if there's enough clearance. AiO radiators with their fans mounted to them are typically at least over 50mm thick (25mm is standard thickness for the fans and rads usually start at 27mm thickness).

 

There could be stuff in either location that could prevent you from mounting a radiator. Like the top VRM heatsinks on my mobo which made it impossible for me to mount my radiator up top. Or an ODD-cage or a HDD/SSD-cage in the front, etc, etc. It really depends on the case. From recent personal experience: Even if the case manufacturer states that radiators can be mounted, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to fit *your* AiO with *your* mobo into the case. Best to check your clearances before you buy an AiO, IMO. Still: You could just write to the dealer/manufacturer and ask them if this system can take an AiO.

 

IFor a top/roof-mount, I'd check if there is a thick VRM heatsink at the top of the mobo and if there is, how far it protrudes both in height and in thickness. Then check where your fan mounting spots are and try to measure and/or eyeball whether or not there is enough space available for the radiator and its fans. Again from personal experience: Eyeballing this can be deceptive/dangerous, because it could be a matter of millimeters.

 

The only other alternative I could think of would be to go with an extra thick 120mm AiO (if they're still around, Corsair used to make the H80i which was supposedely nearly as capable as a 240 AiO with standard thickness) and mount that thing in the back of the case. With enough space, you could mount two fans and do push/pull for extra airflow through the rad. Set that to suck in air through the rad, and put one or two 140mm in the top to exhaust the hot air coming out of the radiator. But I'm not sure a 120mm radiator, even a thick one, would be enough to cool an i7 CPU.

 

 

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[LogicalDrm]

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