AiO water cooling hijinks discovered!

[Izerous]

is it safe to assume adding a t-valve to fill or bleed an AiO system later on is possible?

My preference always goes with quick disconnects over t valves for that kind of purpose. Extra set to be able to open and close the loop for filling and draining. Can attach a hose to the extra fitting and then you have the felxibility to kinda do whatever.

Some AIO's are non standard tubing sizes so finding anything to actually fit isn't always easy.

 

[moocow]

IIRC, most AIO with disconnects were EOL, like the EK Predator line. Interestingly, only Kykski and Barrow have the reservior, pump, rad combo thingy.

 

[gingerbee]

By the way guys.. brass is VERY common in heating and cooling. Like always. The only thing that causes corrosion is oxygen. Get rid of the oxygen in the system, add a little inhibitor, and corrosion goes away.

If an AIO was cleaned properly and filled with zero oxygen water/glycol mix or some sort there would never be corrosion.

100% right since we have been mixing metals in car cooling loops for years, my problem is them claiming copper as a selling point.

 

[Jokester]

It's not really anything to get excited about. Typical Igor article. No one is fleecing anyhow persay

 

[Bond007]

For the most part this isn't big news (to me) except for the likely false advertising. If a company makes a claim on material, then they need to be help accountable for it, whether it actually makes a difference or not.

 

[clshades]

is it safe to assume adding a t-valve to fill or bleed an AiO system later on is possible?

To properly get oxygen out of a heating or cooling system it must be at least 5-15 psi with an air bleed at the highest point. Unfortunately that's pretty difficult for a custom loop.

You would need a boiler fill valve, a gauge and and a pump or hydrolic hand pump to pull this off. I'm not sure what water cooling fittings are rated at.

Alternatively, an air bleed can be installed on the resivior port to account for thermal expansion and air bleed off.

Oxygen bad though.

AIO's should technically be pretty easy at the point of manufacturing as the only thing that really needs cleaned is the rad and the cpu block. Piping is normally pretty clean.

This is what I use on heating systems. There's a screen in the Cylinder that captures micro air bubbles and releases them out the top. 5-15 psi required though.

 

[clshades]

Like this. This is a job I replaced the manifold as it was leaking.

 

[Izerous]

Alphacool eisbaer 240 and I already partly cleaned it up

Edit: For clarification it failed on someone I know and I took it apart for curiosity to see if it was salvagable.

 

[Bond007]

Alphacool eisbaer 240 and I already partly cleaned it up

Ugh. Some corrosion going on in that setup.

 

[Marzipan]

Ugh. Some corrosion going on in that setup.