Who says aio cooling is crap?

hlennie · 19 Jan 2019 at 21:49

Currently using a id cooling frost flow 280 to cool my 8700k @ 5ghz 1.33v AVX Offset 0 will go higher but so do temps
ambient 22c. Idle 27
Prime temps non avx 60 - 65 C
Prime temps avx 65 - 74
Small ftts

Aio 240 (36 MM)and g12 kit from OCUK on a Evga 2080 RTX Black 2100 core 8000 mem

Idle 27C - 30C
100% load 40c crept up to 44C after a couple of hours gaming had to check afterburner loads of times to make sure i was not seeing things

Any one else using AIO to cool both?
What sort of temps are you getting?

hlennie · 20 Jan 2019 at 00:07

Finners said:
is your 8700k delidded?

Yeah i brought it that way But would have delidded any how brought it off the mm super cheap

hlennie · 20 Jan 2019 at 00:22

Quit impressed with these units what with the naysayers going on about full custom loops. Well already did that spend loads every up grade for what money down drain u never get much resale value out of them

Plus im getting better results with aio's at a quarter of the cost.

Only gripe is they could use a better coolant than they do but will fix that in the future thinking drill and tap a fill/bleed port

hlennie · 22 Jan 2019 at 22:47

Id cooling cheap but quality. Then u get things like that asus monstrosity. They want how much? Crack heads for sure.

Not sure who makes the frost flow but hat off to them they have made a product that just works right.

So glad i gave it a try look forward to thier future releases

hlennie · 30 Jan 2019 at 01:50

Well the two Aio's i have are pretty quite no louder than when i was running custom loop

Even with all fans at their slowest still cant hear them

hlennie · 3 Feb 2019 at 16:14

Lol what happened to me thread? Side tracked or what. The idea of the thread was to provide people with a rough temperature guide for those looking to use AIO’s.

Cooling is personal choice and no one should be bashed for their choice.

Me personally was about cost/cooling delta/fan noise.

160 quid out lay for good temps. And in an other 2 years i will refill both units via modding pretty easy to drill tap fill/drain ports on both. Looking at filling mayhems pastel or better.

I might even do it sooner if i get the time work commitments crazy at the moment.

hlennie · 4 Feb 2019 at 23:12

LuckyBenski said:
Why would you put Pastel in a sealed opaque loop?

Probly because it was the last fluid i used and easy to spot just in case some thing goes wrong

hlennie · 22 Feb 2019 at 02:20

martian1 said:
I have a phantek luxe case which has tons of space now the 2 rads pump with resevior and 9 fans have been stripped out I am going to give the Noctua air cooler a try I will be dropping down to 6 140mm fans (2 on cooler) if I could post a photo directly from my phone showing the state of my expensive GPU it would show my reasoning. I sometimes have my PC running over night or when I am out and after this I would be worried the PC could go up in flames with a bad leak from either a custom loop or a AIO it's freaked me out to be honest
Forgot to mention my 1080ti was on air prior me getting a water block

If u got contents insurance nothing to worry about. And theres really not enough material in a pc to have a decent fire.

Most premix are non conductive had a few leaks when first started loops lots of kitchen towl later all dry no problems