HELP NEEDED WITH AIO COOLER

[Armand99]

I recently upgraded to some "new" parts (They will be old by US and Canadian standards) I got a 120mm AIO cooler as part of the upgrade. I do not have the budget for a new case yet so I want to know how to mount the AIO to the rear of my case as it does not accommodate water cooling as much, especially in the front of the case where it only has 2x 120mm fan mountings, low down on front of the 3.5 inch drive bays (Yes the case has fixed drive bays for 3.5 inch as well as 5.25 inch drive bays that's how old it is,  I don't really do AAA gaming on my PC in any case so the lower spec of the parts don't bother me seeing as I am finally upgrading from a 15 year old PC... what orientation and what fan config should I use for the AIO radiator, I can use the fans on the side panel of the PC to draw out the warm air from my GPU as they are very conveniently located right opposite where it is mounted on the motherboard. I am no noob when it comes to computers but I am a water cooling/AIO noob and would like some advise.

 

"New" Specs:

CPU:    Ryzen 5 5600G

Mobo: MSI B450M a Pro Max II

GPU:   Arktek RX580 8Gb

AIO:    Cool Moon AR120 AIO Cooler
PSU:   Deep Cool 750W

(Don't ask me what case I have, all I remember is that it is a large(ish) sized Raid Max case from around 2010/2011) 

[Tegneren]

First of all. 120mm AIO is complete wast of money, you can get better performing air coolers for cheaper and with less hassle. 

Other tan that. Just make sure that the pump isn't the highest point in the loop, the radiator needs to be at least partially higher up. This is to prevent air bubbles being trapped in the pump. Usually the pump is integrated in the cpu block, and by what I can see its the same on yours too..

 

 

As for fan orientation. Use it as exhaust if its in the rear.

To make it a bit easier to clean of dust from the radiator it can be good to mount the fan in a "pull" config between the case and the rad, but for performance it doesn't matter if its in push or pull. But also, by doing that all that RGB will also be hidden.

[PDifolco]

3 hours ago, Armand99 said:

I recently upgraded to some "new" parts (They will be old by US and Canadian standards) I got a 120mm AIO cooler as part of the upgrade. I do not have the budget for a new case yet so I want to know how to mount the AIO to the rear of my case as it does not accommodate water cooling as much, especially in the front of the case where it only has 2x 120mm fan mountings, low down on front of the 3.5 inch drive bays (Yes the case has fixed drive bays for 3.5 inch as well as 5.25 inch drive bays that's how old it is,  I don't really do AAA gaming on my PC in any case so the lower spec of the parts don't bother me seeing as I am finally upgrading from a 15 year old PC... what orientation and what fan config should I use for the AIO radiator, I can use the fans on the side panel of the PC to draw out the warm air from my GPU as they are very conveniently located right opposite where it is mounted on the motherboard. I am no noob when it comes to computers but I am a water cooling/AIO noob and would like some advise.

 

"New" Specs:

CPU:    Ryzen 5 5600G

Mobo: MSI B450M a Pro Max II

GPU:   Arktek RX580 8Gb

AIO:    Cool Moon AR120 AIO Cooler
PSU:   Deep Cool 750W

(Don't ask me what case I have, all I remember is that it is a large(ish) sized Raid Max case from around 2010/2011) 

Put the rad and fan at the rear on exhaust, old style

[Armand99]

Thank you both for the answers you gave.

@Tegneren: I got the AIO with the package, so unfortunately I can't use a stock cooler, I'm from South Africa and PC components are compared to the US not cheap here (not that they are cheap there either). If i converted correctly I payed about 300 USD for the mobo, cpu and a single stick of 16Gb of 3200Mhz RAM and about 160USD for the RX580 8Gb (This one is brand new) the mobo, cpu & RAM was an open box Upgrade kit, I got the AIO for free as the supplier did not have an air cooler available at the time.

 

 

CPU:     Ryzen 5 5600G

MOBO: MSI B450M a Pro Max II

GPU:    Arktek RX580 8Gb

AIO:     Cool Moon AR120 AIO Cooler
PSU:    Deep Cool 750W

RAM:   16Gb 3200Mhz

Case:   Aerocool PGS V

[Armand99]

On 9/30/2024 at 9:31 AM, Tegneren said:

First of all. 120mm AIO is complete wast of money, you can get better performing air coolers for cheaper and with less hassle. 

Other tan that. Just make sure that the pump isn't the highest point in the loop, the radiator needs to be at least partially higher up. This is to prevent air bubbles being trapped in the pump. Usually the pump is integrated in the cpu block, and by what I can see its the same on yours too..

 

 

As for fan orientation. Use it as exhaust if its in the rear.

To make it a bit easier to clean of dust from the radiator it can be good to mount the fan in a "pull" config between the case and the rad, but for performance it doesn't matter if its in push or pull. But also, by doing that all that RGB will also be hidden.

Update, I managed to source a brand new AMD Wraith Stealth cooler for my setup, so I'm getting rid of the AIO...

[Tegneren]

15 hours ago, Armand99 said:

Update, I managed to source a brand new AMD Wraith Stealth cooler for my setup, so I'm getting rid of the AIO...

If you already had the AIO and it fits in your cabinet, there is no reason to not use it. The Wraith Stealth is what comes with some lower end AMD cpu's. It will probably work for the 5600G, but a 120mm aio will perform a lot better.