changing watercooled cpu? Easy/Hard?

[frosty]

was thinking about upgrading my cpu which is watercooled along with my Gpu's in the same loop. For those of you who have watercooled and changed out your cpu, is it a matter simply unscrewing the water block from the motherboard, and popping off the old cpu and inserting the new one, then screwing the water block back down? Basically there should be no need to drain the system right? should be quick job?

thanks

[Zero82z]

It depends on your loop, but as long as you have enough slack to be able to safely move the block away from the socket without having to bend anything too much, you should be good to go.

[gingerbee]

if the tubing allows it then pull the block off and change the cpu that simple

[SugarJ]

Clean your block and reapply thermal paste though. But yes, it's that easy if you've got enough slack in your tubing.

[MarkOne]

oups I'm gone have a problem.

[Dazmode]

Make sure you don't sratch your block while it hanging on tubing. This happened to me twice, so I would rather drain the system and disconnect everything.

[gingerbee]

tisk tisk daz you should know by now that you use a zip tie to make sure this doesn't happen. sorry about the luck 2 of them

[Liu Kang]

Don't do it alone, have a buddy hold the block... I ended up with thermal paste all over my mobo and ram :(

[gingerbee]

remember paper towels

[lowfat]

It depends on the tubing you use as well. The way primoflex bites on to fittings there is no way i would try it. In my case i would loosing the fittings without a doubt causing a leak.