Lian Li - Liquid cooling - How do you tell if it’s working?

[Tzosin]

Hi,
Im new to pc gaming and all aspects of building etc. purchased a gaming pc set up last year in Feb from here and I am concerned that the liquid cooling has never been working correctly as my pc has alway hit higher temperatures and can heat up entire rooms quite quickly.
I had a friend over who is more knowledgeable about PCs to show him Baldurs Gate 3 and he picked up on the cooling issue and advised me to contact forums or pcspecialist directly.

Keeps hitting temperatures of around 83c and it doesn’t seem like the liquid is moving in tubes as there are a couple of bubbles in the pipes that I would assume would move around if the flow of liquid was working.

CPU keeps hitting higher temps and it seems there is a buildup of something on top pipe coming from cpu tube.

How do I tell if it’s working as it should be + how do I fix this if it’s not working?

Additional: The liquid colour seems to have gone a lighter colour/odd looking from what it was.

Any help appreciated.


EDIT: first pic is pc in first week of having where liquid level on the back plate isn’t full…
The other pics are last night showing the liquid had expanded or something and is slightly discoloured.
Thought it may be a good comparison between them like a then and now if that helps.

Last pic of temperature is from being at the title screen of Baldurs Gate 3 for only 4 minutes to give as an example of temp.



Pc specs below copied from order form.
Case
LIAN LI O11DYNAMIC XL ROG CERTIFIED GAMING CASE

Custom Liquid Cooling Kit
Liquid Series RGB Lian Li PCO11D – EK

Tubing
Clear Hardline PETG Tubing (Bent/Metallic Fittings)

Graphics Card Cooling
GPU Water Block - For One Graphics Card!

Coolant Colour
EK-neon green

LED Lighting
2 x 50cm UV LED Strip

Overclocked CPU
Overclocked AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core (3.4GHz @ up to 4.55GHz)

Motherboard
ASUS® CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WIFI (DDR4, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!

Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3600MHz (2 x 16GB)

Graphics Card
24GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3090 - HDMI, DP

1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 6900MB/R, 5000MB/W)

1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W)

Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

USB/Thunderbolt Options
2 PORT (1 x TYPE A, 1 x TYPE C) USB 3.1 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS

Capture/Streaming Cards
Elgato Game Capture 4K60 PRO MK.2 - PCIe Card

Operating System
Windows 11 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00005]

Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language

Windows Recovery Media
Windows 11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Supplied on USB Drive

Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty

Build Time
Liquid Series® Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days

 

[B4zookaw]

You should contact PCS directly about this. Temps do seem high for liquid cooling, so something is not working as intended. Liquid cooling has a higher level of complexity and require regular maintenance. They’re best suited to someone who has experience of building PCs previously rather than a novice.

 

[Scott]

I could be wrong but I think the fluid should be serviced every year. This goes even more so for the foggy style coolants, as they start to create paste/congeal. I think Mystic Fog was a popular one that got removed/changed due to causing no end of clogging issues. This clearly isn't mystic fog, but there's always a level of caution required as well as servicing of the cooling system.

As above, I would get it booked in ASAP to get the service completed. I believe it's a fixed fee. We never really recommend liquid builds to the masses as they're both very expensive and require a fair bit of understanding & maintenance to keep running optimally.