Can you use an AIO liquid cooler with NO Fans?

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video is another one of those david's thoughts while showering kind of video ideas what happens when you remove the fans often all in one liquid cooler will you be able to game for any extended period of time or is it going to lead to the creation of yet to be discovered elements but before we get into that we have a sponsor for today's video today's video is sponsored by data cap which is a brilliant way to learn some new data analysis skills data cap has over 300 interactive courses that use an xp leveling system that makes you feel smarter than you really are one of the courses that i started out with was an introduction to data analysis using python and even though i am really bad at this kind of thing and have no background with this it was pretty easy to pick up what i had to do what's also cool is that all of the lessons are bite-sized and they have a mobile version of the app which means you can learn on the go a data cam subscription starts at only 25 a month for unlimited access to all of their courses so use the link in my description below so that you can try out the first chapter of any of the courses for free to see if you like it thank you very much again tatakan for sponsoring this video now i feel like an all-in-one liquid cooler should work quite well passively because it's got so much surface area for radiating heat and when it comes to tower coolers passive options do exist that is something that works for people who don't want noise in their system and don't mind a casual house fire every time they switch on their pc there is one problem with using an aio passively though and it's the fact that it has a pump in it which means that even if you remove the fans there is still a moving part that facilitates cooling but we're going to ignore that for today we don't get bogged down by technicalities like that on this channel um so what we're going to do is we're going to start out with a control test which is going to be a 240 millimeter aio with two noctua nfa 12s on it and then we're going to remove the fans and see what happens and to top it all off we're going to use this over compensator matron 9000 360 millimeter radiator aio to see what the best case scenario looks like now as far as the cpu goes that we're gonna try and passively cool with an all-in-one liquid cooler i'm gonna use a ryzen 5 5600 x which is a six core 12 thread cpu and that's actually not that difficult to cpu for this test and that's kind of by design i didn't want anything to just spontaneously combust immediately i wanted there to be a relatively good chance that this may actually work and then as far as the rest of the system goes we've got 16 gigs of ddr4 running at 3 600 megahertz to switch things up a little bit the graphics card that we're using today is this amd rx 5700 xt and it's actually the reference board which it's it's a pretty it's a pretty good looking cooler now when it comes to the all-in-one liquid coolers that i'm going to use for today's tests the 240 millimeter aio is an nzxt kraken z53 which i've been using for a while on the channel especially with this ryzen 5 5600x and it works very well for the control test i'm going to use two noctua nfa12s which are really good fans so i think it's going to give us a a a good baseline for performance at this point the fans will come off and we'll see if fire happens and then after that finally we'll drop in the over compensator mitron 9000. one last thing before we get into the test i'm actually going to test this whole situation while gaming because i want to see if you can game with a passively called aio not if you can run ida 64 with a passively called aio and then the game that we're using is going to be battlefield 5. i really like battlefield 5 for these kinds of tests because it stresses your system very evenly it's not just like 10 cpu utilization and 100 gpu utilization it's it's very even utilization which means the cpu is going to be putting in some work so with that let's have a look at the baseline reading here is our baseline result after half an hour of playing battlefield 5 the temperature is stabilized at about 56 degrees celsius and then the average boost frequency fluctuates between 4.5 and 4.6 gigahertz with that let's rip off those fans and spank that little 5600x okay uh so launching into the pc we've got no fans on the radiator let's see what happens when we're just on the desktop so with very little utilization we're sitting at about 50 degrees celsius at the moment which is not great we're already close to the peak we were getting after about 30 minutes of gaming before so that's not ideal but let's see what happens when we fire up uh when we fire up battlefield v i mean this is already going way better than i was expecting i'm not gonna lie i was expecting it to just immediately catch on fire so we're loading back to the game and we're at 67c and you can see the boost frequencies are steadily dropping so yeah we're losing speed here temperatures are climbing and if you touch the radiator it's getting it's getting real hot we're about 16 minutes worth of just full activity in and it's doing okay at 22 minutes in we're sitting at 79 degrees celsius and about 90 degrees celsius on the actual aio's thermometer um yeah it's struggling real hard the radiator is getting worryingly hot i don't know how long we're still going to be able to game for before this all comes tumbling down the boost frequencies are slowly creeping down but we still occasionally get 4.4 gigahertz on chords here and there so yeah the performance is still very similar this is actually crazy we've been gaming for 40 minutes and it's not caught on fire yet okay so we just hit an hour in and i'm starting to lose interest so the boost frequencies are still 4.4 on the fastest cores the frame rates are still pretty much the same and nothing's been dropping so an hour in i feel like this is about time to to just throw in the towel here i don't care anymore it's worked it's very impressive i'm surprised i'm surprised at how well it's worked so what we're going to do now is i'm going to drop in the uh 360 millimeter aio to see if that does any better maybe we can stabilize at a lower temperature and get higher core frequencies and stuff okay so we're at about 11 minutes and we're only at 68c which is pretty good and we're still getting uh 4.4 to 4.5 over most of the cores so yeah the 360 millimeter rad is actually holding up very well uh let's see if it kind of tops out at a lower temperature than the 240 did we've just gone over half an hour in and we're still sitting at 72 c with 4.4 gigahertz on most of the cores so yeah this this 360 millimeter rad is really tanking the whole passive thing and we're over an hour again and this time we've stabilized it 71 to 72 degrees celsius which is pretty good we've got roughly 4.4 gigahertz on all of the cores it does fluctuate a bit but look at that we've had none of the stuttering that we had with the 240 millimeter variant this 360 mil aio has taken it like a complete champ in conclusion that went a lot better than i thought it was going to i knew it was going to take a bit of time for the aios to thermally saturate because all of the water needs to heat up and whatever but even with the 240 millimeter aio that 5600 x wasn't throttling that much and you were still getting a very playable gaming experience there was the occasional stutter but it really wasn't that bad and then finally when moving up to the over compensator matron that was sitting steady at 72c that's actually not that bad and the gaming performance didn't feel any different than it did with fans on the radiators so yeah passively cooled aios work way better than you'd think apparently so clearly if both of the fans on your aio die at exactly the same time it's not going to be that bad in fact you may not immediately notice because you'll just keep gaming for a couple hours before anything happens uh yeah so with that thank you very much for watching another pointless video if you like this video subscribe to the channel like the video follow stuff linked in the description below and until the next video byetoday's video is another one of those david's thoughts while showering kind of video ideas what happens when you remove the fans often all in one liquid cooler will you be able to game for any extended period of time or is it going to lead to the creation of yet to be discovered elements but before we get into that we have a sponsor for today's video today's video is sponsored by data cap which is a brilliant way to learn some new data analysis skills data cap has over 300 interactive courses that use an xp leveling system that makes you feel smarter than you really are one of the courses that i started out with was an introduction to data analysis using python and even though i am really bad at this kind of thing and have no background with this it was pretty easy to pick up what i had to do what's also cool is that all of the lessons are bite-sized and they have a mobile version of the app which means you can learn on the go a data cam subscription starts at only 25 a month for unlimited access to all of their courses so use the link in my description below so that you can try out the first chapter of any of the courses for free to see if you like it thank you very much again tatakan for sponsoring this video now i feel like an all-in-one liquid cooler should work quite well passively because it's got so much surface area for radiating heat and when it comes to tower coolers passive options do exist that is something that works for people who don't want noise in their system and don't mind a casual house fire every time they switch on their pc there is one problem with using an aio passively though and it's the fact that it has a pump in it which means that even if you remove the fans there is still a moving part that facilitates cooling but we're going to ignore that for today we don't get bogged down by technicalities like that on this channel um so what we're going to do is we're going to start out with a control test which is going to be a 240 millimeter aio with two noctua nfa 12s on it and then we're going to remove the fans and see what happens and to top it all off we're going to use this over compensator matron 9000 360 millimeter radiator aio to see what the best case scenario looks like now as far as the cpu goes that we're gonna try and passively cool with an all-in-one liquid cooler i'm gonna use a ryzen 5 5600 x which is a six core 12 thread cpu and that's actually not that difficult to cpu for this test and that's kind of by design i didn't want anything to just spontaneously combust immediately i wanted there to be a relatively good chance that this may actually work and then as far as the rest of the system goes we've got 16 gigs of ddr4 running at 3 600 megahertz to switch things up a little bit the graphics card that we're using today is this amd rx 5700 xt and it's actually the reference board which it's it's a pretty it's a pretty good looking cooler now when it comes to the all-in-one liquid coolers that i'm going to use for today's tests the 240 millimeter aio is an nzxt kraken z53 which i've been using for a while on the channel especially with this ryzen 5 5600x and it works very well for the control test i'm going to use two noctua nfa12s which are really good fans so i think it's going to give us a a a good baseline for performance at this point the fans will come off and we'll see if fire happens and then after that finally we'll drop in the over compensator mitron 9000. one last thing before we get into the test i'm actually going to test this whole situation while gaming because i want to see if you can game with a passively called aio not if you can run ida 64 with a passively called aio and then the game that we're using is going to be battlefield 5. i really like battlefield 5 for these kinds of tests because it stresses your system very evenly it's not just like 10 cpu utilization and 100 gpu utilization it's it's very even utilization which means the cpu is going to be putting in some work so with that let's have a look at the baseline reading here is our baseline result after half an hour of playing battlefield 5 the temperature is stabilized at about 56 degrees celsius and then the average boost frequency fluctuates between 4.5 and 4.6 gigahertz with that let's rip off those fans and spank that little 5600x okay uh so launching into the pc we've got no fans on the radiator let's see what happens when we're just on the desktop so with very little utilization we're sitting at about 50 degrees celsius at the moment which is not great we're already close to the peak we were getting after about 30 minutes of gaming before so that's not ideal but let's see what happens when we fire up uh when we fire up battlefield v i mean this is already going way better than i was expecting i'm not gonna lie i was expecting it to just immediately catch on fire so we're loading back to the game and we're at 67c and you can see the boost frequencies are steadily dropping so yeah we're losing speed here temperatures are climbing and if you touch the radiator it's getting it's getting real hot we're about 16 minutes worth of just full activity in and it's doing okay at 22 minutes in we're sitting at 79 degrees celsius and about 90 degrees celsius on the actual aio's thermometer um yeah it's struggling real hard the radiator is getting worryingly hot i don't know how long we're still going to be able to game for before this all comes tumbling down the boost frequencies are slowly creeping down but we still occasionally get 4.4 gigahertz on chords here and there so yeah the performance is still very similar this is actually crazy we've been gaming for 40 minutes and it's not caught on fire yet okay so we just hit an hour in and i'm starting to lose interest so the boost frequencies are still 4.4 on the fastest cores the frame rates are still pretty much the same and nothing's been dropping so an hour in i feel like this is about time to to just throw in the towel here i don't care anymore it's worked it's very impressive i'm surprised i'm surprised at how well it's worked so what we're going to do now is i'm going to drop in the uh 360 millimeter aio to see if that does any better maybe we can stabilize at a lower temperature and get higher core frequencies and stuff okay so we're at about 11 minutes and we're only at 68c which is pretty good and we're still getting uh 4.4 to 4.5 over most of the cores so yeah the 360 millimeter rad is actually holding up very well uh let's see if it kind of tops out at a lower temperature than the 240 did we've just gone over half an hour in and we're still sitting at 72 c with 4.4 gigahertz on most of the cores so yeah this this 360 millimeter rad is really tanking the whole passive thing and we're over an hour again and this time we've stabilized it 71 to 72 degrees celsius which is pretty good we've got roughly 4.4 gigahertz on all of the cores it does fluctuate a bit but look at that we've had none of the stuttering that we had with the 240 millimeter variant this 360 mil aio has taken it like a complete champ in conclusion that went a lot better than i thought it was going to i knew it was going to take a bit of time for the aios to thermally saturate because all of the water needs to heat up and whatever but even with the 240 millimeter aio that 5600 x wasn't throttling that much and you were still getting a very playable gaming experience there was the occasional stutter but it really wasn't that bad and then finally when moving up to the over compensator matron that was sitting steady at 72c that's actually not that bad and the gaming performance didn't feel any different than it did with fans on the radiators so yeah passively cooled aios work way better than you'd think apparently so clearly if both of the fans on your aio die at exactly the same time it's not going to be that bad in fact you may not immediately notice because you'll just keep gaming for a couple hours before anything happens uh yeah so with that thank you very much for watching another pointless video if you like this video subscribe to the channel like the video follow stuff linked in the description below and until the next video bye