Sealed Water Cooling

Hi All,

I have my new Lynx with this cooling kit: Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 2: Digital Storm Vortex Liquid CPU Cooler (Dual Fan) (Fully Sealed + No Maintenance)

I realize it says "no maintenance", but is there anything I need to be cautious of?

Is there anything that indicates that it is going out or failing (other than the CPU cooking itself to death)?

Thanks

Just FYI, the CPUs available for the last few years will shut down when they reach an unsafe temp, and not die. My AIO liquid cooler is a bit more than 4 1/2 years old and never faltered yet. I run my PC 24/7.   

The only thing I had occur with my new AIO sealed water system was a odd sound in the pump after a few months that was eliminated by reducing the RPMs a bit. This was after consultation with others that had that issue too. Temperatures were perfect but there was this odd sound that was resolved just by cutting the RPMs back a little.

I am a 12 year DS customer and my old 12 year old system is still cooking & gaming after 12 years with a memory boost and a Titan GPU. DS makes incredible systems that simple last for what seems like forever.

My new system that I got last Christmas has an AIO sealed system and it works just fine. I am very happy with it. My old 12 year old system had a complicated air fin multiple fan V8 configuration that tended to get dusty and you had to remove the fans to clean the inside side of them. I ended up replacing a fan in the V8 cooler because I didn't realize it had got dirty on the inside and caused it to over speed and burn out.

Anyhow! :-) I think the sealed AIO coolers are great and definitely keeps my 5900X cool when I am creating Deep Zoom Fractal Movies using all 24 threads at 100% for hours at a time.