Day Three

This is an interesting day as we finally complete that radiator mounting and see this monster of a chassis complete.

Let us now move on to the top radiator and that in ‘day two’ we found out that the top polymer panel can be removed by a thumbscrew which allows access to a recessed area where fans can be installed. We also discovered that the radiator can be installed in the central chassis, thus in theory allowing for a extra thick radiator to be installed. However let us put this to the test shall we?

However let us be prudent first and install the CPU water block and therefore we are better able to judge the amount of room needed for the radiator.

Here we have used and modified an old XSPC Rasa block for this purpose.

 Here we did a little modification in order for the water block to fit the blue theme that seems to be used throughout the chassis and motherboard products.

The above images show the thermal paste we use as STANDARD (Innovation Cooling’s IC-Diamond) on all our builds and testing procedures, as we feel not only is it the best performing but the most reliable compound too.

The last photo shows the water block finally installed.

Below shows that the fan and radiator  and radiator has been mounted, though here we encounter an issue that is two-fold, first is again Coolermaster have assumed that all radiators have 6/32 fan mounting and secondly they have not provided screws at differing lengths according to the DTF (Distance to Fins) of the aforementioned radiator. As we all know though DTF can vary from model  and from manufacturer and we feel that is is a major oversight from Coolermaster as anyone assembling their ‘rig’ in this manner would puncture their radiator as a result. A solution around this is to provide ‘spacing washers’ in order to compensate for the extra long (such as how we have employed below) screws.

he next series of photos show the clearance level between the radiator and the MOSFET heatsink on the motherboard and as one can see we could encounter issues of thicker radiators being cable to fit. However we have utilised an XSPC RS 240MM radiator of which can be installed comfortably.

Obviously before assembly of pumps and ‘piping up’ the system we leak-tested all radiators and equipment before assembly and before the radiators and block were spray painted.

Here we have obviously used the rather excellent Coolermaster V1000 PSU in order to fit in with the theme of the build.

The above photos show the piping up of the system along with a ‘suggestion’ rather than an issue. What would be prudent of Coolermaster is to manufacture a converter that turns a 120mm fan hole into a 2.5 or 2.5″ inch bay (as shown in the last photo above) in order to allow the mounting of drives or water cooling pumps.

We do feel that if we did not use 1/2 inch inner diameter tubing and instead employed the 3/8 inch variety then we would have been able to install TWO separate loops.

Finally apart from memory installation and filling the loop with water we are now complete.

Wow it has been an exciting trip with the Coolermaster COSMOS SE case and we have enjoyed it every step of the way, so now let us move on with the conclusion.

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