#clean build

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uncut sparrow
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looks great! seems you got some decent stuff for £400 altogether too

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just one thing, and i notice this is very common

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your CPU cooler is the fractal lumen

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the pump that it uses is housed inside the radiator, rather than the CPU block or tubing

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as your radiator is top-mounted, this could degrade the AIO over time

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would recommend mounting the radiator on the front instead

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also, the lumen (as well as many other apaltek CLCs) have/had a problem with gunk buildup, i'm guessing you bought most of this 2nd hand, the older lumen SKUs suffer from this problem and top mounting the radiator may make it worse

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i bought a lumen for an older build back when it launched, assuming it was asetek like the older Celsius cooler design

after unboxing i realised it was apaltek and had to mount it differently. couple months down the line i noticed strange sounds and did indeed find gunk buildup. they issued a recall shortly after, and "addressed" the issue with a later revision but there are still a lot of these 2021-2022 SKUs on the used market and in people's builds

uncut sparrow