The assembly of the all-in-one liquid cooling (RL IAO) is very important because it can cause problems in the future. Improper installation can cause the liquid cooling pump to break. If this does not work, the water does not circulate in the circuit, and therefore the processor will not cool.
Micro evaporation, something nobody tells you
Without going into deep physics, after rain or after scrubbing, the ground dries out little by little. It is not necessary to reach temperatures of 100°C for the water to start evaporating. Over time, the water evaporates until the soil is completely dry. A process that can occur both at 10ºC and 30ºC, although at different speeds.
In liquid refrigeration we have distilled water, from which most of the impurities have been removed. This is mainly done to prevent water from spoiling and bacteria or even moss from growing.
This distilled water is normally subjected to temperatures above 50°C, so not always in liquid state. In the circuit, there may be a small proportion of it which is in a gaseous state.
The gum of pipes liquid cooling they have holes extremely small, practically invisible. Water doesn’t escape through them because it has a bigger volume, so to speak (it’s a bit more complex). But in reality the water escapes very slowly.
Little by little the water evaporates without you noticing. This in a custom liquid cooling is not a problem, since we can see the water level in the circuit and fill it if necessary. The problem is in all-in-one models, where we cannot see its water level. The tubes, the radiator and the pump are opaque, moreover, there is no tank.
How should I install my liquid cooling to avoid damage?
There is no repository or window in a all-in-one RL which allows us to see the amount of liquid in the system. As if that weren’t enough, the vast majority of these kits They don’t have a filler cap. A set of conditions which, added to a bad installation, can lead to disaster.
Proper installation of an all-in-one liquid cooler in the front of a PC tower is done with the bottom tubes. The reason is that in this way the pump will suffer less as the quantity of liquid in the circuit decreases.
Here we can see how you never need to mount all-in-one refrigeration
If we install it with pipes near the top of the PC chassis, we will have a problem. The the pump will need more force so that the circuit continues to operate normally. In addition, the amount of liquid circulating will decrease, which can generate bubbles. This assumes that there will be times when distilled water does not “absorb” the heat generated by the CPU.
Install liquid cooling with the tubes in the bottom does not guarantee that it will last longer. With this we make the pump work more comfortably, but in the long run it will die due to micro-evaporation and will not be able to fill it.
If you want our advice, or you roll one custom liquid cooling or you leave problems with a air well. The best solution, without a doubt, is an air cooler. The maximum that can happen is that the fan breaks, being able to change it in an instant, since these fans are of standard size (they are usually 92 mm or 120 mm).
Correct assembly of an all-in-one liquid cooler
Bad practices of manufacturers and assemblers
It is possible that when you go to install one of these RL AIO tand you find that you can’t install it correctly. The usual thing is that the the tubes are short and we can’t install them, maybe we need to install it wrong. This is not something exactly uncommon, moreover, few brands have RL AIOs with long tubes that allow optimal installation.
Currently, the vast majority of computer game chassis already support radiators in the upper part of up to 240 mm or even more. It can be installed at the top and thus solve the problem of short tubes.
Our advice is that if you install it high, do it with a slight inclination. You can go to a hardware store and buy slightly longer bolts and washers to create this slight tilt. This will allow water to still go through the tubes, even with micro evaporation of the liquid.
There are also computer stores that, for convenience, wrongly mount them. Especially the big box stores, where they presume not to be jerks, ride them upside down. It is possible that this is due to ignorance or to guarantee work for the future. If you find an improperly mounted RL AIO, you’d better find another computer store to buy the computer from.
