This is going to be a bit of a long one, buyer beware of these new Lian Li products.
@Albert.Thomas Did you have any issues with either version of the Galahad trinity II?
I bought the
360mm Galahad II Trinity Performance to replace my
360mm Coolermaster ML360R that I had before because it was getting long in the tooth for permeation and the pump. I have had several issues with the Lian Li AIO.
I have a strange issue where the pump does not start and my CPU quickly goes to 90c. I thought to myself I forgot something simple like, bad mounting, not plugging in the pump to the Motherboard, or even a low or bad duty cycle on the pump in BIOS. I checked everything and nothing was amiss. So I tried starting up the PC again and the previous issues were gone, pump was working, temps were normal even under stress testing. I restart after a firmware update to the AIO through the Lian Li L-connect software, and the pump does not start again. Scratching my head at this point, I decide to do a few reboots as a test. Four of the ten reboots I did on my PC would cause the pump to not start pumping. I would get as far as my desktop before I see that the CPU is at 90C and the fans are blaring at 100% as I log into windows. I thought to myself that I should see if it is related to the Lian Li software that has pump and fan controls causing the issue due to bugs by booting straight into BIOS. I get to BIOS and everything is normal. I reboot and again go back to BIOS, but this time while watching the CPU temps, I can see them climbing all the way to 90c and on the fan control page I can see that the pump is not responding to the CPU temps. Pump was at 0 RPM. So I am left with having to restart my PC after booting up if I notice my fans spinning up trying to compensate for no RPMs on the pump until the pump magically decides to start working.
I went over my PC three times making sure everything is connected where it should be, updated BIOS, and still no resolution to this issue. I also have another issue with this AIO while it is working. The pump is, while "working," loud, very loud even. This issue of the pump being loud happened gradually over time. I figured I would go to Lian Li support to potentially get a software or firmware update to fix the 0 RPM pump issue on startup, so I kept it installed and would restart when it did not start pumping until it worked. I have had the AIO for three weeks now and the first week the pump was nearly silent with a small amount of whine at 4200 rpm so I kept it at 3600 rpm. In week two I noticed that it would have a slight grinding sound every once and a while. Now, and in the third week, the grinding sound is constant, but is lesser or greater at different RPM breakpoints. I can stand buggy, or janky software / firmware because that is fixable, but the pump was also seemingly failing as well. Because of these issues, I decided to return the AIO to amazon because it is still within the return window. I will be replacing it with an Arctic freezer 2. Wish me luck, I think I need it at this point...
TLDR, 0 RPM pump at startup randomly, and when it does work after about a week the pump itself became louder, and louder...
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