Water Cooling Installation

There have been many reviews of this product, however we feel that Overclockers Tech are the FIRST to offer a section where the installation of a semi-professional water cooling solution has been used. In order to fully test Coolermaster’s water cooling claims we feel that it is necessary to go beyond the standard air or basic water cooling setup and install TWO radiators and a Asus Rampage three motherboard in order to fully examine placement.

As clearly shown by the photographs below the front drive bays can be completely removed by a total of six screws in less than five minuets. Once the drive cases with the fans attached are removed, we then remove the side rails of the drive bays (again by three short screws).

Once the above has been accomplished we turn the chassis onto its side and remove the four screws that hold in the secondary (the one that’s attached to the floor of the case) 2.5 inch bay.

Once the above has been removed the radiator with its adjoined fans can be installed. It is worth noting that there is plenty of room present here and a large XSPC RX240 radiator has been installed within the system. It is also worth taking note that due to the sheer space available, that it is possible to use a push-pull configuration in this location.

Next we move on to the top radiator.

As we discussed earlier, one has to remove the top panel first and then screw in the top radiator. Also we mentioned that there is a space issue inside the chassis with regards to mounting the top radiator. One cannot alleviate this by placing the fans between the panels because of the riveted handle. As such and this can be shown below, the input/out ports of the radiator can badly overshadow the eight Pin EPS connector on the motherboard. If this issue were sorted then a larger depth, better performing radiator can be placed here.

As you can see by the above and the below photographs, this is why Overclockers Tech INSIST on testing things fully! The latter image and the lower ones show that it can be solved by reversing the radiator, but of course this creates longer tubing to the CPU, ergo possibly slightly higher temperatures.

Next we move onto the big conclusion.