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krazypoe   10-01-2009 at 03:34:43 PM

Hey all

I have a Swiftech Apogee GTZ Extreme Performance CPU water block

How should I properly take off the old one and install this one? Is there water always filling the tubes? How do I take the tighteners off the old tubes without damaging them??

Thanks ~!

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krazypoe wrote :

Hey all

I have a Swiftech Apogee GTZ Extreme Performance CPU water block

How should I properly take off the old one and install this one? Is there water always filling the tubes? How do I take the tighteners off the old tubes without damaging them??

Thanks ~!



Cut it off the old waterblock.

Take a pair of scissors and cut the lines right after the barbs. Attach the lines to the new waterblock and secure them with clamps. Bleed the system for air and install.

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Bronze Overclocking badge Conumdrum   10-01-2009 at 04:55:14 PM

Your taking off the old one? You mean the heatsink with the fan on it? Or is it a old waterblock?

Yes, there is always water in the tubes, even when it's turned off.

You have 'tighteners' ? What are tighteners? You mean hose clamps? Or Herbie clips or compression fittings? Well you pretty much just take them off and remove the tubing fron the fitting.

Please drain your loop before disconnecting hoses.

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krazypoe   10-01-2009 at 05:06:24 PM

yes - i have an old waterblock thats too big for my new motherboard --

Hose clamps is probably the right word for it

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rubix_1011   10-01-2009 at 05:45:59 PM

I have a sneaking suspicion this might not end well...

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Bronze Overclocking badge Conumdrum   10-01-2009 at 05:50:49 PM

krazypoe wrote :

yes - i have an old waterblock thats too big for my new motherboard --

Hose clamps is probably the right word for it




Could you post pics of your stuff? Be nice if you had the names for your parts and the terminoligy down.

Like what brand the block is, what pump brand and radiator brand etc. What CPU your going to cool etc. I'm worried you might have a prebuilt kit like Koolance, Thermaltake, etc etc.

If that's the case, then Rubix might be right.

I'm leary of recommending much until I know LOTS more info.


Message edited by Conumdrum on 10-01-2009 at 05:51:16 PM
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krazypoe   10-01-2009 at 08:43:05 PM

I have the Swiftech Quiet Power P180 Liquid Cooling System with Antec P180B case

It is a pre built kit.. i think - i didn't know that was a bad thing.

I need to take the hose clamps off and put on the new waterblock--> Swiftech Apogee GTZ Extreme Performance CPU water block . -- just wondering how I take the hose clamps off and properly put on the new one.

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krazypoe   10-01-2009 at 10:49:55 PM

excuse me, they are small plastic hose clamps that overlap. They have bumps on them that interlock.

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Bronze Overclocking badge Shadow703793   10-02-2009 at 02:29:27 AM

Are you talking about the barbs going in to the waterblock? Or the tubing? Are you trying to remove the barbs or the hose?

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PsychoSaysDie   10-02-2009 at 02:41:18 AM
Best answer

krazypoe wrote :

Hey all

I have a Swiftech Apogee GTZ Extreme Performance CPU water block

How should I properly take off the old one and install this one? Is there water always filling the tubes? How do I take the tighteners off the old tubes without damaging them??

Thanks ~!



Cut it off the old waterblock.

Take a pair of scissors and cut the lines right after the barbs. Attach the lines to the new waterblock and secure them with clamps. Bleed the system for air and install.


Message edited by PsychoSaysDie on 10-02-2009 at 02:42:12 AM
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PsychoSaysDie   10-02-2009 at 03:19:23 AM

krazypoe wrote :

thanks psycho!




No problem bro.

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Bronze Overclocking badge Conumdrum   10-02-2009 at 05:13:35 AM

Yep, now I see your problem. The CPU block is an older one, good to upgrade to a more modern block. Yea, drain (good to have the cpu block off the cpu and point in directions to drain the water out of the block). Undo clamps, pull hose off gently, inspect hose, put new stuff on, refill, leak test for HOURS and then power mobo etc up, monitor temps.

You'll like the way the waterblock mounts, very nice.

Umm, lets talk radiator size and what radiator and the CPU your getting. I'm a bit worried if the rad is a 120x1 and your getting an i5 or i7, you might not have enough rad.

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