The installation of the custom water cooling
To mount the 420 radiator on the front, you need to remove the bracket first. Simply loosen the few screws, then the radiator (with fitting above and 90 ° angle piece below) purely, everything together with the fan install and ready. As you can see, the motherboard, the GPU including the vertical kit and the power supply are already installed and wired. You should also do this beforehand, otherwise it will be extremely difficult or even impossible later on. How to install these standard components, I wanted to spare you. Anyone can do this, and if not YT, there are 1000 and one explainer video…
I have summarized everything else for you in a picture gallery. Because with hoses, the whole thing is really simple and there is nothing to be afraid of, even as a “beginner”. It is important that you screw everything hand-tight, then everything is also tight. It can be difficult with the fittings. If the hose is on it, then the “union nut” goes over quite difficult. You can help a little with a pair of pliers. Always remember: after firm – comes off!
I could have gone straight behind the ice ball from the 360 radiator. But then it would have become even more complicated with the connection to the ice ball in connection with the drain system. Therefore, I decided to go the way shown. Visually, it turned out quite well – in my opinion. Only the corner with the drain cock, I do not really like. So far, I haven’t come up with a solution on how to do this better without documents. Maybe you can think of something?
So, the water is in and the ice ball is connected to the case using Velcro. It actually holds like hell. So if you – like me – don’t want to screw it together, you can do it that way without worrying. I didn’t cover myself with glory when it came to cable management. Not so important, no one sees anyway.
Besides the two S-ATA SSDs and the installed PWM splitter cable, you can also see a PWM fan HUB. You can also get it in the Alphacool range soon. This was tested at the same time, so to speak. Let’s turn on the device…
This is way too dark on the left edge. For this reason, I had planned push-pull. I don’t like it at all. After pondering for a long time, I remembered that I bought two aRGB strips from Sharkoon years ago. Just before I started with the articles at Igor. Finally, I was able to use one.
That looks so much better! The project is saved… Yes, some of you will probably bite the keyboard now because I’m wetting my pants over RGB lighting. That’s just the way I am and that with over 40 years… It’s like religion: you don’t have to understand it, you just have to believe it! On the next page we continue with a test setup…
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