Performance degredation with AIO watercoolers? :)

[Akagi]

Any of you, like me, running an AIO watercooler which against all the odds has survived many years?

I think my H100 is getting on for 9 years old now, it still works but the pump is audible now where it used to be silent, the lights on the waterblock have stopped working (though they occasionally flicker dimly), and my CPU temps are considerably higher than when it was new, I assume because the non-replacable fluid has signficantly degraded?

So I think its time has come!

Does anyone make a 200MM AIO?

 

[Akagi]

It is set up optimally, the block/pump are the right way up and the radiator is mounted above them.

I'll stick some new compound under it tomorrow. It is dust free, I'm fairly confident it has just had it.

I am tempted to attempt to replace the coolant though. I know you "cant" do it, but I'm sure you can with a bit of ingenuity.

I think I can probably extract the old coolant, and inject new coolant with a hyperdermic needle in the tubing, then gently touch a soldering iron in the tiny hole to re-seal it.

 

[Akagi]

Lawl, well, I removed it, and as I was doing so it started leaking from one of the elbow joins where the tubing connects to the block... So that's toast now!

Lots of sloshing, sounded like there was more air than coolant in it...

Now on the hunt for a spare cooler...