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Water cooling - Installation.

Carpet3

Posted in on August 25, 2008 at 5:40 pm

So with the parts in hand it was time to give this water cooling malarkey a try (built a few WC systems before but not my own).

Here’s my Q6600 that i’m about to cool. I went with the ‘line method’ when applying my Arctic MX-2. That seemed a bit alien to me at first, I was too used to putting a blob of thermal material in the centre and then thinning it out over the CPU (only ever had AMD processors for my PCs before this one).

First job was to attach the radiator to the panel and get the barbs and tubes fitted.

Doesn’t look too bad

I also forgot to order any fans, so I had to rush out and grab something cheap and nasty. It’ll do for now until I get some fancy low noise ones

Next was to get the CPU block on. I’ve decided i’m probably going to re-do this in the future. I want to get the back plate for it.

Then the res/pump was installed and the rest of the tubes attatched.

Started filling it with the Feser blue

Took ages to bleed all the air out

I didnt photograph it, but incase you’re wondering, yes I did fire up the water cooling system when i was filling it without turning everything else on.

Not too bad. Wiring is now a mess again though. Nevermind.

And here’s it all installed and working. Didnt have a single leak so that’s a bonus

Looking forward to getting that custom radiator grill on. Should look the business then.

That’s all I’ve got for now. What shall I do next?

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