Aio life spans

[Vanya Hargreeves]

I have a corsair h45 aio in my system since 2016 and it coming up to five year. Should I replace it with a new one?

As im getting ok temps like 20c and 62c when playing games. Yet im concerned that it coming to the end of it life span and could fail on me. Even if I cleaned my PC ever month.

Any advice?

 

[Vanya Hargreeves]

There is no need to change it now. It is very unlikely now to have a catastrophic failure. You just need to keep doing as you do now which is to monitor temperatures.

Most AIO can over many years suffer permeation, where the liquid levels gradually decrease over a long time. This can vary depending on CLC, where some have little and others have more. This is generally only noticed if the temperatures are monitored and the system doesn't change in that time. Also they (the pump) can start to get louder.

Just continue to monitor your temps and I would only consider changing if when using the exact same system your temps increase by 10c+ or the pump becomes unbearably loud.

Ok I keep that in mine I only use my PC for around 8 hours any way I had heard the pump working harder but that was on load, after going back to ideal it stopped.

 

[Vanya Hargreeves]

Ok, a bit of an update here, I know ot warmer weather, I been thinking. Of adding a front fan to my existing one. Yet want to know if, I have two front fans at 1000rpm max would I need to match it or have higher rpm for the exhaust. As I have aio that I put a 1300 fan on.
As Idle I'm getting 30-40c gaming it 50 in menus and 60-70c where it hit 70-77c for a few seconds then is at 68c like fluctuation.