AIO coolers now £450!

Ridiculous, but will certainly find a market for it. Plenty of entry level GPU/CPU builds and £300+ in some bling Corsair/ASUS or similar gear. Better off spending that much money on some decent headphone/speaker, a better monitor or a better CPU/GPU, but won’t impress the neighbourhood without the streamer cables.
 
My 420mm Freezer II cost a quarter of that and does a great job, lol............


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Hotwired said:
Corsair H50 from 2009 still trundling away. Outlived the original i5 750 CPU which I replaced with a i5 760 for £5 from CeX this year.
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I was under the impression that these AIO coolers only lasted a few years. Are they generally that longlasting? I've yet to make the jump from chonky air coolers. If I was going to, no way is this Asus thing on the list!
 
jklc said:
I was under the impression that these AIO coolers only lasted a few years. Are they generally that longlasting? I've yet to make the jump from chonky air coolers. If I was going to, no way is this Asus thing on the list!
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The better brands are offering 6 year warranties.

Worst case failures like a liquid leak get the most attention but I don't know what a normal failure is for an AIO.

I reckon it's a slow degradation in performance between the pump bearings slowly wearing and the fluid incredibly slowly escaping through the walls of the tubing. But both of those are engineering problems that can be worked on, like being less cheap with materials. I have no idea of the timescale this would normally take to be noticeable.

Apart from that, what else can go wrong in normal use. The tubing isn't getting beat up, everyone uses black tubing to avoid light issues and the liquid may well be glycol and/instead of, water.

Well the fans could and probably will croak but the main part of the AIO is a sealed loop with one moving part. At the prices they've reached surely they've managed to make that single moving part last forever now.
 
Hotwired said:
The better brands are offering 6 year warranties.

Worst case failures like a liquid leak get the most attention but I don't know what a normal failure is for an AIO.

I reckon it's a slow degradation in performance between the pump bearings slowly wearing and the fluid incredibly slowly escaping through the walls of the tubing. But both of those are engineering problems that can be worked on, like being less cheap with materials. I have no idea of the timescale this would normally take to be noticeable.

Apart from that, what else can go wrong in normal use. The tubing isn't getting beat up, everyone uses black tubing to avoid light issues and the liquid may well be glycol and/instead of, water.

Well the fans could and probably will croak but the main part of the AIO is a sealed loop with one moving part. At the prices they've reached surely they've managed to make that single moving part last forever now.
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Pump failure is quite common
 
you can literally build an all in custom soft tube loop cheaper than that and be able to upgrade things along the way

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £395.92 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

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Corsair Hydro X Series XD5 RGB Black Reservoir / Pump Combo - 330ml (CX-9040006-WW)
WC-02S-CS
£150 (incl. VAT)
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Barrow Dabel-28b 240mm Dual Fan Radiator with 28mm Depth - Black
WC-004-BA
£56 (incl. VAT)
£29 (incl. VAT)
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Corsair Hydro X Series XC5 RGB PRO Black CPU Water Block - 1700 / 1200
WC-03B-CS
£60 (incl. VAT)
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XSPC FLX Tubing 3/8" ID, 1/2" OD (13/10mm) - 2m Clear
WC-477-XS
£5 (incl. VAT)
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Alphacool Eiszapfen 13/10mm Deep Black Compression Fitting - Six Pack
WC-08K-AC
£33 (incl. VAT)
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EK Water Blocks EK-CryoFuel Navy Blue 1L Premix Watercooling Fluid - 1 Litre
WC-9PB-EK
£9 (incl. VAT)
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