How fast should a reservoir go down on working 24/7?

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Roughly how fast should a liquid reservoir go down due to evaporation and such? Not sure if I have a tiny leak or not. This is both work and home pc and is on for very long times due to rendering and such.
Btw I have two radiators, one 360 and one 280 iirc.
 
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ShadyHamster
2 rads is more then enough for what you are running and the water temp seems good.
I try and keep my fluid temp around 40c while gaming and haven't had any issues with it.

Seems odd that you are losing so much fluid over a small period of time if you can't find any leaks.
I would top it up and see what happens over the next 2 weeks.

Are you using some cheap soft tubing? That's my only other idea.
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If there are no leaks your liquid shouldn't be going down, at least not in the short term, but it would depend on how long your tube runs are and how much tubing is being used.
My loop is rather small with short tube runs and i've seen no noticeable changes in liquid levels are 6months or so.
If your loop is rather large it could still be bleeding small air pockets out of it over time.
 
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So a quarter of the reservoir over 2 weeks is not normal I'm guessing then? I'm flummoxed tbh. I can't find any leaks or see any air bubbles.
 
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i7-6900k 4.0ghz
2x high end GPU's

And yeah I do, the fluid is staying around 36c.
 
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2 rads is more then enough for what you are running and the water temp seems good.
I try and keep my fluid temp around 40c while gaming and haven't had any issues with it.

Seems odd that you are losing so much fluid over a small period of time if you can't find any leaks.
I would top it up and see what happens over the next 2 weeks.

Are you using some cheap soft tubing? That's my only other idea.
 
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