Clean your Rad!

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Touched the back of my PC case where my Radiator was mounted earlier and nearly burnt my fingers! The whole area surrounding was piercing hot! I took my pc apart, took watercooling system off, cleaned the very dusty radiator off totally , and refitted the CPU heatsink. I moved the radiator to the lower front of the case so I can see how hot it is easier, and to keep it further away from the hottest area of the motherboard. Moral of the story? Clean your radiator free of dust or it will get very hot indeed!
 
Touched the back of my PC case where my Radiator was mounted earlier and nearly burnt my fingers! The whole area surrounding was piercing hot! I took my pc apart, took watercooling system off, cleaned the very dusty radiator off totally , and refitted the CPU heatsink. I moved the radiator to the lower front of the case so I can see how hot it is easier, and to keep it further away from the hottest area of the motherboard. Moral of the story? Clean your radiator free of dust or it will get very hot indeed!

I done exactly the same last weekend, took the PC apart for a good clean and my god I felt so ashamed of myself, I'm usually on the ball with cleaning but this was a little to dusty and the AIO was rather toasty,

Re-pasted and cleaned now its a lot better
 
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I done exactly the same last weekend, took the PC apart for a good clean and my god I felt so ashamed of myself, I'm usually on the ball with cleaning but this was a little to dusty and the AIO was rather toasty,

Re-pasted and cleaned now its a lot better
Yes, mine was near as totally clogged with dust. That is the first time I can recall where my PC case was literally heated up! Now much better (and quieter).
 
I would advise after you have flushed the rad, install a inline filter to catch anything left over as you will be surprised on what can still be in there.

Erm... How are you supposed to clean it without draining the loop? Putting in two taps with the filter in between does not look nice. Or two quick disconnects that also restricts flow rate. Yet they too look a bit gaudy with their thickness. I'm starting to see this as a trend lately with some builders sticking an inline filter somewhere.
 
Reminds me, after fitting the 3080 water block which is coming up for 2 years, haven't cleaned it since, after reading this I'm going topop up and give it a spring clean, incoming dustageddon!
 
Erm... How are you supposed to clean it without draining the loop? Putting in two taps with the filter in between does not look nice. Or two quick disconnects that also restricts flow rate. Yet they too look a bit gaudy with their thickness. I'm starting to see this as a trend lately with some builders sticking an inline filter somewhere.
I think it's more so that it protects the loop by catching stuff, and you can see if it needs cleaning. Or just clean it during routine maintenance.

But anyway this thread is about cleaning the OUTSIDE of radiators :D
 
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