Thursday, September 11, 2008

Building in watercooling II

The cpu-waterblock is now attached on the motherboard. Seen from a side angle below.



The motherboard is built into the computercase. Next is hanging up the radiator. When you use aircooling on a cpu, it is customary to blow the air over the cpu. With a radiator it is customary to suck the air through the radiator. At the back of the case will the fan and the radiator be hung.

Due to the dimensions of the radiator it cannot be attached to the case directly, and a second problem is that the screw of the fan do not fit so that it can blow the air out of the case. So I have to improvise for the time being. Meaning I will hang up the radiator turned around so it will blow fresh air into the case through the radiator (for now (I know its not wise ;)).



At the bottom of the case the pump/reservoir is placed using velcro (klittenband). This is a picture of the pump/reservoir.



The next step involves attaching the tubes. Normally the sequence is pump->cpu->radiator. However I attached it wrong as well: pump->radiator->cpu. To be continued.

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