Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution

Scurburg · 29 Nov 2014 at 12:47

Just put a new system together as follows:
AMD fx8300
ASUS Sabertooth 990fx
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 750W
Samsung 840 250
MSI 280x
Samsung Green DDR3 8GB
Win7 Pro

Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution

I've never tried an AIO cooler before as only used to air coolers before with no issues.
I have assembled everything and can get it into bios and windows, however the temps are not kept under control at all (temps climb to 70+ and crash under load), I've tried re-seating the cooler a few times without success.
I have noticed there is a fairly large air pocket in the AIO and am wondering if this could cause the issues, I have no idea if this is normal. Is it supposed to have air pockets and where in the system should they be?
I believe the pump is working as the light is on, although its hard to say as there is not monitoring available, just an adapter direct from psu.

ATM I'm lost as what to do to correct the issue or diagnose if I have a faulty unit.

Any suggestions for a complete newb to this stuff.

Scurburg · 29 Nov 2014 at 13:09

The problem is, its sold as a sealed unit and the warranty is void if I open it (Even to put the supplied dye in)

How am I supposed to get rid of the air in the system without voiding?

Scurburg · 30 Nov 2014 at 11:01

Thanks OLDPHART
You are correct, its not technically a sealed unit, but it is sold as one. The fill port, if opened, voids the warranty, even if its to put the supplied dye in. Not happy about that, but I'm not that bothered about the dye, more about the function of the unit.

Anyway, I seem to have worked the air into the pump res which has improved things and re-seating too, but it still not as good as I had hoped. At least its not crashing and overheating now. Thanks.

Scurburg · 30 Nov 2014 at 11:56

Quoted from the store page:
"Customer Notice:
The unit comes with a Warranty Void Sticker covering the fill port on the main unit. This is to prevent novice users from opening the system. By opening the unit to add the dye, the manufacturer assumes that you have a level of expertise required to carry out the task."
It also states about voiding warranty to use the dye in the instruction manual. It seem to defeat the point of the unit some what IMO. Oh well nvm, I can live with it.

I do kind of wish I had gone air now, but it is all working good enough now to keep the fx8300 at 4.9. I'm happy enough.

Scurburg · 18 Dec 2014 at 20:39

"Now that the air bubbles have gone, what kind of temps are you getting?"
Now its all settled and re-seated, 4.9ghz at 1.475v in prime after some time its reaching low 60's. Every thing else runs somewhere in the low to mid 50's.
I still think I could tighten it down a bit more to improve this and will be adding some washers to the holding plate screws as the half holes for the screws are causing an issue tightening it down (Why they do this I do not know and seems to be AMD CPU problem only)