Can all of the fluid in H100 evaporate over 4-5 years?

[PancakeBimmer]

I think I had H100 for about 4-5 years now and think that all of most of the fluid in it has evaporated. Why? Well because yesterday, after buying 144Hz monitor (finally yes!!!) and running planetside 2, I noticed that game was reporting cpu performance issue. Mind you planetside 2 ran fine on this system before and always complained about my previous GPU (which ever it was, cant remember). So I install CPU temperature monitor and WOW!!! 97-100 degrees Celsius with 10-12 load. Radiator is cool and but pump block itself is hot. 

[RicY]

Maybe the pump itself is dead. Can you hear it buzzing? 

[airdeano]

welcome to the Linus Tech Tips forums!

 

there is some permeation, but not a complete disbursement.

either the pump has an air bubble in the pump it can not shake, or the pump is/has failed.

 

[PancakeBimmer]

So after posting I decided to take H100 out and quickly take pump apart and see whats up.

 

First of all, yes, pump does still work and spin without a hick up. When refilling I would run it continuously for about 30 seconds until fluid needed to be replenished.

Second, it seems like there was maybe 1/3 of fluid left inside. 

Finally, I think because of low fluid level there is gunk in radiator, because there was quite a lot in the pump.

 

Luckily I am going to a wedding which happens to be very close to Frys Electronics so going to get regular air cooler I guess. H100 served well for many years I had it.

I will take pump and radiator apart again soon and post pictures if I don't forget.

 

Edit:

Ohh yeah, so after refilling all of the fluid I poured out plus just as much on top of that, CPU runs just as hot and pump block is also hot. I hoped that thermal sensor went out but that is not the case.

[kxrider85]

5 hours ago, PancakeBimmer said:

I think I had H100 for about 4-5 years now and think that all of most of the fluid in it has evaporated. Why? Well because yesterday, after buying 144Hz monitor (finally yes!!!) and running planetside 2, I noticed that game was reporting cpu performance issue. Mind you planetside 2 ran fine on this system before and always complained about my previous GPU (which ever it was, cant remember). So I install CPU temperature monitor and WOW!!! 97-100 degrees Celsius with 10-12 load. Radiator is cool and but pump block itself is hot. 

I have never heard of fluid evaporating in an AIO (where would the fluid go in a closed loop??), but what I will say is that just recently, I discovered that my mediocre to bad temperatures with my H100i were do to a SUPER NOT OBVIOUS installation error: the backplate (that goes on the back of the motherboard) was oriented the wrong way. The only indication that there even is a specific orientation was a single picture in the instructions, but sure enough, fixing the backplate resolved my temperature issues.

 

Here is a reddit article about it.