Benefits Of An AIO

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Apart from aesthetics, is there any benefit ?
I heard the cooling isn't as good as a high end standard heatsink. I'd also be very weary about putting water into the computer

Also would you need to use the " pump " fan header or can you just use the standard " case fan " ones, or even the cpu fan header and use a splitter
 
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The_Arbiter said:
The obvious one is noise as you can reduce fan numbers in the case this way. But benchers have shown either can be cooler. No idea about what header as i can only imagine that it depends on each AIO and where it gets its power from and if the motherboard supports that. It's only a temp gauge, pump and fan/s afterall.
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Fair enough. After some reading and YouTube, the fan's don't plug into the pump header, they plug into the CPU FAN header with a splitter. The only thing that connects to the pump header is the radiator
 
Went for the kraken.
I should be able to use two of my corsair rgb fans instead of the stock right?

They are case fans, so I'll have to monitor the temps . If no good then I'll use the stock ones
 
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HoneyBadger said:
You can use any fans you like as long as they physically fit. Static pressure fans will be better on a radiator but not required. The difference in temps will not be very noticeable. A couple of degrees max. Knock yourself out!
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Another option could be use 1x case fan and 1x cpu fan on the radiator.


I'll try the 2x120mm corsair case fans as they are all routed tidily, if no good, i'll use the cpu fans.

Thanks dude
 
Installed my first ever AIO !
Went fairly smoothly, however I couldn't mount it up the top so had to put it at the front. The spec on my case says it can house a 240mm AIO but obviously not. It also said " max component height on motherboard 40 mm "

Upon thinking about it, that's probably a good thing as if I mounted it up the top, i'd be blowing hot air from the case into the radiator. So putting it at the front in a pull configuration, pulls cold air from outside - into the case.

The only thing is, I bent a few of the radiator lines ( the horizontal bendy things )
Should I try and pry them straight gently ? Temps are spot on however..
Also it makes a bit of a noise which I assume is the pump, is that normal ?

thats the sound, the one you hear in the back like a high pitched one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGGpZYNan4I&feature=emb_title

 
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Done some reading on Reddit and lots of others with the same problem. Aparrently turning down the pump helps ( just set the pump setting to " liquid " rather than " cpu " and now it's much quieter )
 
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@PieEater yes I saw that video, this one also has some good points ( he references to the vid you posted )
https://youtu.be/1RcFQZ8zk5U

From what I've learned mounting at the very top of the case is best, and on the front either way is fine.
Basically as long as the top of the radiator is higher than the pump, then air will only get trapped into the radiator and not the pump as the air will go to the highest point.

I did some reading about the kraken aios and lots of people have the same issue with noise even after mounting in different directions.

I did a few stress tests and changed the settings in the nzxt software and now its silent happy days
 
Does this look better ?Temps are fine, no noise whatsoever
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I have a meshify C and on the spec for the case it says it can house a 240mm rad up top, however it definitely can't.
On the site it says " (max component height on motherboard 40 mm) "

Is it simply because my specific RAD was too big for it ?
 
alec said:
As long as pump is lower than top of radiator, it doesn't matter which way pipes go!
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Well they say (According to what i've learnt. )

  1. Mounting up the top of the case is best

  2. Mounting at the front with the pipes down is second best.

  3. Mounting at the front with the pipes up is third best
Mounting with the pipes down means air travels upwards where there is no chance of it clogging up the inlet and outlet on the rad


Mikey said:
Been looking to get a KRAKEN X53
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I'd strongly recommend it, it's an excellent AIO
 
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