Nice tutorial - well done! Just a couple of small observations: 1. Using water (even distilled water) is only OK is a non mixed-metal loop such as a custom waterloop or brass/copper radiator AIO (fractal design Kelvin comes to mind). Using straight water in a mixed metal loop such as your corsair (aluminium radiator + copper coldplate) will cause galvanic corrosion that will block the coldplate skived fins very quickly if under 24/7 operation (its a matter of weeks - been there, made that mistake thinking ultrapure distilled water is OK - it is not; tap or any kind of drinking water will most definitely accelerate that process even more). You should only use water with corrosion inhibitors, stick to PC-specific brands such as Mayhems, EK, XSPC, Corsair etc as the general purpose plumbing or automotive ones are very hit or miss for these kinds of applications (mostly too dense or NOK for seals) or if you are not comfortable mixing the chemicals together with water in fixed ratios just use some watercooling premix (£10ish for a 1L bottle off Scan or Amazon and that will be good for 4 or 5 120mm AIOs or about 3 240/360 AIOs) 2. The rubber grommet is called a jetplate and it plays a crucial role in the cooler's performance by transforming the (mostly) laminar flow into turbulent flow which in turn "separates" the liquid from the fins and mixes it. A simple way to understand this phenomenon is to hold out your hand and sit still for a moment - then wave it in the air - for a very short time your hand will feel "cold" and then the temperature will magically return to normal - that is what happens when the hotter air around your hand is disturbed and mixed with the surrounding colder air, same principle applies here - don't know where I heard that recently, but it is a hell of a lot easier to understand than the explanation a fluid mechanics guy would give you (also fluid mechanics is a horrible subject on the best of days) 3. Try to fill the AIO without turning the pump on if possible - it most likely won't hurt it for a short period, but most AIOs that require this sort of service are already very old and running the impeller without being submerged won't do it any good either. Like your videos! Keep them coming
Thank you, I was debating if I should purchase some water cooling fluid but then I looked in the manual for the Corsair cooler and it mentioned distilled water. Judging my the colour of the liquid though it seems as though they probably got this wrong when the cooler was released. Thanks for the input though it's really useful for me and hopefully others. I have more videos coming but everything is going wrong at the moment 😂, stay tuned....
@@RestoTek Mayhems x1 ECO clear as it is relatively inexpensive and non-toxic. It is supposed to be compatible with most plastics and its 100% OK to use in AIOs (I've done over 50 until now and never had an issue with any seals or mixed metals), but sometimes it can turn certain types of clear plastic green as It happened to me with EK tubing.
Excellent, I got a pair of MSI CoreLiquids one a white 2 fan and one a black 3 fan and I want to build a decent 3 fan but with the white CPU end and wondered about servicing the pump itself. May I offer one recommendation from my old water cooling days (got on the Overclocker's leaderboard for pumping more than 3Ghz out of a 1700+ AMD single core chip thanks to water and I had a twin circuit residing in the funky Antec Skeleton case one for the CPU and one for the GPU and ram and I had to downclock the water circuit for the CPU as it ran very low and had issues of condensation and frosting :( ) is to "lap" the copper plate to a mirror shine, the lapping enables abs tons more thermal transfer and easily done with a metal polish or brasso wadding and a dremel, it does make a lot of difference to thermal transfer.
@dodgydruid I tried this too but I think I used something a bit too abrasive (wet and dry paper) which ended up reducing the amount of pressure on the cpu. The bottom of the cooler was extremely rough though. Polishing will make a huge difference I might try it in one of my upcoming videos
Also, wear gloves for your health's sake. Unless the manufacturer specifies the contents of the coolant mixture (and it ALWAYS is a sub-zero coolant mixture of glycol, for the reasons stated by the user georgecalangiu). And even then, you don't want to take risk with ethylene glycol, that stuff is nasty as fu.
My reply got yeeted by the TH-cam archdemons, but I was saying that you should consider yourself lucky, as Corsair have been using Propylene Glycol in their AIOs since as far back as 2010. Some manufacturers do use Ethylene Glycol and they have to point that out visibly in the box and the product specs.
@@avetruetocaesar3463 I've never seen the toxicity symbol that you usually see on the boxes. I have a bottle of the corsair cooling liquid I'll see if there is any warning on that
Nice tutorial - well done! Just a couple of small observations:
1. Using water (even distilled water) is only OK is a non mixed-metal loop such as a custom waterloop or brass/copper radiator AIO (fractal design Kelvin comes to mind). Using straight water in a mixed metal loop such as your corsair (aluminium radiator + copper coldplate) will cause galvanic corrosion that will block the coldplate skived fins very quickly if under 24/7 operation (its a matter of weeks - been there, made that mistake thinking ultrapure distilled water is OK - it is not; tap or any kind of drinking water will most definitely accelerate that process even more). You should only use water with corrosion inhibitors, stick to PC-specific brands such as Mayhems, EK, XSPC, Corsair etc as the general purpose plumbing or automotive ones are very hit or miss for these kinds of applications (mostly too dense or NOK for seals) or if you are not comfortable mixing the chemicals together with water in fixed ratios just use some watercooling premix (£10ish for a 1L bottle off Scan or Amazon and that will be good for 4 or 5 120mm AIOs or about 3 240/360 AIOs)
2. The rubber grommet is called a jetplate and it plays a crucial role in the cooler's performance by transforming the (mostly) laminar flow into turbulent flow which in turn "separates" the liquid from the fins and mixes it. A simple way to understand this phenomenon is to hold out your hand and sit still for a moment - then wave it in the air - for a very short time your hand will feel "cold" and then the temperature will magically return to normal - that is what happens when the hotter air around your hand is disturbed and mixed with the surrounding colder air, same principle applies here - don't know where I heard that recently, but it is a hell of a lot easier to understand than the explanation a fluid mechanics guy would give you (also fluid mechanics is a horrible subject on the best of days)
3. Try to fill the AIO without turning the pump on if possible - it most likely won't hurt it for a short period, but most AIOs that require this sort of service are already very old and running the impeller without being submerged won't do it any good either.
Like your videos! Keep them coming
Thank you, I was debating if I should purchase some water cooling fluid but then I looked in the manual for the Corsair cooler and it mentioned distilled water. Judging my the colour of the liquid though it seems as though they probably got this wrong when the cooler was released. Thanks for the input though it's really useful for me and hopefully others. I have more videos coming but everything is going wrong at the moment 😂, stay tuned....
@@RestoTek you can use distilled water to top it off, but not to replace the fluid ;)
@@georgecalangiu-ene1418 just out curiosity what liquid do you use?
@@RestoTek Mayhems x1 ECO clear as it is relatively inexpensive and non-toxic. It is supposed to be compatible with most plastics and its 100% OK to use in AIOs (I've done over 50 until now and never had an issue with any seals or mixed metals), but sometimes it can turn certain types of clear plastic green as It happened to me with EK tubing.
@@georgecalangiu-ene1418 thanks so much, you may see this liquid in one of my future videos 😂😉
Excellent, I got a pair of MSI CoreLiquids one a white 2 fan and one a black 3 fan and I want to build a decent 3 fan but with the white CPU end and wondered about servicing the pump itself. May I offer one recommendation from my old water cooling days (got on the Overclocker's leaderboard for pumping more than 3Ghz out of a 1700+ AMD single core chip thanks to water and I had a twin circuit residing in the funky Antec Skeleton case one for the CPU and one for the GPU and ram and I had to downclock the water circuit for the CPU as it ran very low and had issues of condensation and frosting :( ) is to "lap" the copper plate to a mirror shine, the lapping enables abs tons more thermal transfer and easily done with a metal polish or brasso wadding and a dremel, it does make a lot of difference to thermal transfer.
@dodgydruid I tried this too but I think I used something a bit too abrasive (wet and dry paper) which ended up reducing the amount of pressure on the cpu. The bottom of the cooler was extremely rough though. Polishing will make a huge difference I might try it in one of my upcoming videos
Also, wear gloves for your health's sake. Unless the manufacturer specifies the contents of the coolant mixture (and it ALWAYS is a sub-zero coolant mixture of glycol, for the reasons stated by the user georgecalangiu). And even then, you don't want to take risk with ethylene glycol, that stuff is nasty as fu.
Thank you, will keep that in mind next time, I think at the time I did get the liquid all over my fingers : /
My reply got yeeted by the TH-cam archdemons, but I was saying that you should consider yourself lucky, as Corsair have been using Propylene Glycol in their AIOs since as far back as 2010. Some manufacturers do use Ethylene Glycol and they have to point that out visibly in the box and the product specs.
@@avetruetocaesar3463 I've never seen the toxicity symbol that you usually see on the boxes. I have a bottle of the corsair cooling liquid I'll see if there is any warning on that