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We shot the preceding photo after also installing the motherboard tray, so let's back up a little.
After applying thermal paste to the top of the CPU, we installed the Swiftech Apogee Drive CPU cooler. While some thermal paste brands recommend scraping off any excess, this editor instead applies small dots of paste and flattens it out with a test fit of the cooling device. The result is less wasted paste, and the layer is still thin enough to see through (though it will "squash out" thinner over time).
The screws of the Apogee Drive on top of the motherboard engage in the threaded holes of the support plate beneath. The support plate uses a self-adhesive foam insulator sheet, but we left the backing on the adhesive to ease later removal.
With the Apogee Drive installed, the motherboard can be screwed onto tray standoffs.
Sliding the motherboard tray back into the Temjin TJ09 chassis allowed hoses to be routed from the two radiators to the Apogee Drive. We installed the graphics cards first to make sure the hoses were long enough to route around them, and also installed the drives to check cable routing.
One might think that the system looks nearly finished, but there was still one unavoidable step: we had to remove the Apogee Drive from the motherboard and slide the motherboard tray back out of the chassis in order to fill the liquid cooling system. The double-fan radiator also had to be removed, and both units were placed below the height of the remaining radiator.
The cooling system was topped up with a mixture of distilled water and Swiftech coolant additive. Tipping the larger radiator and Apogee Drive in various directions while holding them beneath the smaller radiator allowed air bubbles to rise and escape through the reservoir's fill hole.
Next, we installed the chipset/RAM cooling fan and cables, and replaced the side panels. Our build was ready for software.
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Thanks for the great article - I'm having fun building this - I do have 3 questions though - the fan duct assembly fan has 3 wire sets, 1 has the 3wire motherboard connector, the second taps into a regular power lead. The third is a single wire - the case documentation does not describe that one - what is that little single lead for? Also the motherboard sound card has some connectors on it - I assume one is for the case headphone/mic lead? Third, should teflon tape be used in the dual radiator threads if not how tight is tight enough for the O-rings? Thanks great article!
Hi Thanks For The Great Article - I Am Also Building A System With A Few Modifications I Loved Asus Boards But Can Never Seem To Overclock Them At All So I Am Going With A EVGA 780i FTW when they come out, THat Processor IS Sweet But No Way CAn I JUstify PAying $1060 or more here in canada for 1 Pc Component when i already own three computers, I was thinking maybe a Q6850 when they come out, i have changed the middle fan in my case already and i am just waiting on my 120 rad to get here as i already have the other parts from another computer i built that i couldn't use so that saved me a few dollars
and i can't find that power supply anywhere so i am gonna do with a X3 1000 watt from ultra i hope it's good enough. and since i am not a really good overclocker no point in risking a high end system by messing around with 2 expensive graphics cards will 2 9800GTX+ work for me ? and omost importantly after my system is finished and filled how do i top it up if it needs more water do i have to take the top rad down to fill it everytime or can i just add water in to the same rad. thanks alot of your help and keep up the great work.
I've been installing and have three questions. First, there seems to be no pump in this system - have I just missed something?
Second, the twin fan radiator seems to draw the air from inside the case up through the radiator and then out the top of the case. Wouldn't you want to draw cooler air from the outside past the radiator?
Third, I don't see any connection to the video card although the 880GTX card is built for water cooling. Wouldn't you want to include this in the loop?
This is my first build with water cooling so sorry if the questions belie this.
The Arctic Silver instructions for applying to Intel Quad Core CPU W/Heatspreader are at http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/ap [...] d_wcap.pdf