AIO

[hoary forge]

What’s not ideal, that it’s front mounted versus top mounted?

[clever tiger]

honestly, it doesn’t matter too much but I was thinking more something like this

[odd edge]

Oh so you want to flip the aio upside down?

[obtuse dock]

wouldn't you want it to be higher than the pumps ideally?

[hoary forge]

It's not that big of a deal

[obtuse dock]

Ah okay

[hoary forge]

Interesting, that's not what I've seen on YouTube. Everything I've seen indicates that having the pump higher than the inlet of the rad would lead to air being trapped in the pump.

This video dives into it a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwA7ygTJn0&t=637s

@clever tiger I'd watch that and avoid the orientation you're thinking of doing. The one you have is normal/great.

[clever tiger]

alright, thanks

[hoary forge]

It's not as big as a deal

[hoary forge]

This is fine

I use it cuz I don't have room on my case

[hoary forge]

Do you have evidence or something behind your thinking another than anecdotal evidence?

Just cause you do it doesn't mean it's fine long term

Oh

Nooo

It's worse

Just not as bad

I'm still not convinced lol. The general reason you should avoid it is that having air in the pump will cause additional wear/strain on the pump itself.

But yeah, it's not catastrophic

[hoary forge]

It's fine tho. Cuz air is in the rad

As long as rad is abovepump it's fine

Take my PC for example

[obtuse dock]

all it does is lower your aio’s lifespan iirc

[hoary forge]

Im going custom loop so I dont care

[obtuse dock]

you dont even have to care, you literally already have the radiator inlet above the pump

[hoary forge]

I know

I find it funny no one commented about the aio not having fans

[obtuse dock]

I just assumed it was on the front and was pushing air

speaking of which, why is there just a fan randomly chilling on top of the gpu lol

[hoary forge]

It's there