Question About Draining Liquid from Recoil 16 After Using External Cooler

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Dan Mc

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Hi all,


I’m really interested in purchasing the Recoil 16, especially with the external liquid cooling option — it looks like a great setup for performance.

However, I travel quite a bit and take my laptop on flights frequently, so I’m a bit concerned about the idea of having any residual liquid inside the system after using the external cooler.

Can anyone (maybe PCS staff or current owners) clarify how the draining process works after disconnecting the cooler? Is there a way to fully remove any leftover liquid from inside the laptop, or is it designed so that nothing remains internally once disconnected?

I’d really appreciate any insight before making the purchase!

Thanks in advance.
 
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Dan Mc

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No, it’s just that I use ChatGPT to rewrite anything I do because I’m super dyslexic so the questions genuine. I just wanna know how to drain the liquid. Any help would be much appreciated.
 
steaky360

steaky360

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Its not something I can answer unfortunately, I don't own one of the laptops myself. If someone else see's this and has the laptop they might be able to offer some advice.

I'd suggest giving PCS a call as they will be able to explain how the process works. Failing that, you'd get a manual etc. when you order the laptop which will go through the process.

Giving PCS a call is the quickest way in my opinion :)
 
BlessedSquirrel

BlessedSquirrel

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Dan Mc said:
No, it’s just that I use ChatGPT to rewrite anything I do because I’m super dyslexic so the questions genuine. I just wanna know how to drain the liquid. Any help would be much appreciated.
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That makes more sense, apologies for us querying, but unfortunately these days there can be a lot of bot generated spam.

I don't have any experience with these chassis, but the common misconception is that there's loads of water circulating inside the system, it's actually very little indeed. Also, the water needed in the system is distilled water, the weird thing about distilled is that it's not actually electrically conductible which a lot of people don't realise.

There is a hugely in depth video on the second (2023) generation model, the cooler design and external pump block have been quite significantly improved since this version, but it goes into quite a lot of detail about how the cooler works and rough performance improvement, may be worth a watch. (skip to 1:16 for disconnecting the cooler). Bear in mind this is for the 2023 model, both the external watercooler and the internal cooling design have significantly improved so if anything, it's going to be a better experience

Video guide for Recoil watercooler

Hi all The Recoil chassis watercooler can be a little tricky to set up. Below is a video on how to set them up, it also has a tear down so you can see the internal cooling system if you're interested. Skip to 28:48 for the teardown Skip to 48:28 for the watercooler setup
www.pcspecialist.co.uk www.pcspecialist.co.uk

Hopefully someone with the chassis will respond, but be aware the 5080 and 5090 versions of this chassis haven't had that many sales to date I think because stocks were very low due to delays with the 5080 and 5090 modules being sent out to System Integrators
 
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