inched forward
Screwed in the power supply, figured out how the top panel comes off (which is how you install the top radiator), and got the Tower of Babel (the stack of empty boxes my parts came in) moved out to the patio.
Starting to get some "Buyer's Remorse" about getting most of the water-cooling hardware from Koolance instead of EKWB just because I happened to be on the Koolance web-site. Or at least the choice of pump and reservoir I went with.
I was idly perusing EKWB's selection of pumps and found one designed to fit onto a bottom case fan. That would have simplified things a bit. No hole drilling.
Even Koolance had things like pump/reservoirs designed to fit into one or two drive bays.
Actually, upon further inspection, a bottom case fan gets in the way of the power cords coming out of the power supply, so the EKWB pump combo wouldn't actually work.
And EKWB's proprietary thermal paste stuff seems *awfully* involved. Running Prime95 (or similar "torture test") with the cooling OFF sets off all sorts of warnings in my brain.
Starting to get some "Buyer's Remorse" about getting most of the water-cooling hardware from Koolance instead of EKWB just because I happened to be on the Koolance web-site. Or at least the choice of pump and reservoir I went with.
I was idly perusing EKWB's selection of pumps and found one designed to fit onto a bottom case fan. That would have simplified things a bit. No hole drilling.
Even Koolance had things like pump/reservoirs designed to fit into one or two drive bays.
Actually, upon further inspection, a bottom case fan gets in the way of the power cords coming out of the power supply, so the EKWB pump combo wouldn't actually work.
And EKWB's proprietary thermal paste stuff seems *awfully* involved. Running Prime95 (or similar "torture test") with the cooling OFF sets off all sorts of warnings in my brain.