forum thread Posted by LovelyCheetah | Staff about 2 months ago
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forum thread Posted by LovelyCheetah | Staff about 2 months ago
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I think 120 radiator AIO only gives me flexibility in a SFF case when the clearance is small in the computer case at the COU area. The cooling performance is not as good as a moderately rated air cooling tower cooler.
Buy an air cooler instead of this
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Good thermal paste is necessary for the transfer of the CPU heat to the water. This is critical, and can't be stressed enough.
Then the water reservoir will help mitigate and manage the heat spikes. Think 120mm sized rad vs an ocean. You don't need to do as much cooling of the ocean. And if you had multiple fans blowing across your radiators, you still can't drop below ambient (unless slinger fan with liquid evaporation)
The tubing is small and covered with braided sheething. Maybe 1/4" so there is a bit of fluid resistance there (versus 3/4" surgical tubing" and the o-ring for the CPU heat sink is solid.
The pump is going to push about 1 l/m but like the tubing, that is fine. You just need to move the water out and since we aren't pressurizing in the radiator to remove more heat….
Basically this AIO gives you a smaller pump for distribution, heat dissipation and water reservoir. It takes a LOT of TDP from a CPU to even get to the threshold of thermal shutdown if you lose an AIO but you will see if frequently if you cheap out or have older thermal paste.
I have had a couple (like 5-6 of various sizes) of these things I tore apart to measure and put inline with other pumps (3-4 lpm) and seeing what the biggest factors/limits are.
External 2x 360mm x 2 with pumps in series pushing 6 lpm, and flow meters with inline temp while running XTU/cinebench to figure thermal shutdown and time to recover, blah blah.
The magnet is quite strong, fits good on my refrigerator too!