Gadgetory

everyone keeps asking me for a system water cooling guide and the reality of it is it's too much work and very few people care so maybe I'll just do sort of more random blogging about my system from water cooling upgrades whenever I do them so step number one for this this is a full system right now I'm using quick disconnects because I was temporarily running a CPU only loop while I waited for my graphics card to get a water block so what I'm going to do first is I'm going to drain the water out of the system and I will do that by taking my quick disconnects and just clipping the zip tie that I have over the barb here over a bucket making sure that they're positioned over the bucket and then basically removing both of the quick disconnects that's what I'm doing okay that was it I actually don't need much of the water drained out because all I'm gonna do is cut this piece of tubing cut this piece of tubing put a full cover block in there with a video card attached to it and then I'm going to run the system and refill the res esses airy okay so I've swapped out to the old graphics card and swapped in the new graphics card but in my power connectors but in my screws so everything is hunky-dory as far as I can tell so now all I need to do is measure this tubing make sure I cut it to the right length so that it'll look all nice and be the right length and then I'm going to slip the top halves of the compression fittings on to the tubing put the tubing on the barbs and then screw in the compression fittings that was it so now I have taken out the quick disconnects taking out the extra tubing and installed the compression fittings and tubing on my card now if I was diligent I would have leaked tested this before powering it on but I'm just gonna power it on because I'm pretty sure I did everything right I've done this a few times after all mind you that kind of overconfidence is what can get you burned so don't do that do as I say not as I do right now the process that I'm working on is called bleeding the loop so that is to that I am trying to get all the bubbles out so I'm turning it on at the back I turned it off in the back of Catco way so I'm turning it on at the back starting up the system waiting for the the system to start properly first okay so I'm waiting for the res to empty and then I'm refilling it it looks like that was my last cycle so after that you can see there's still some bubbles left and that's gonna last for a while one of the ways that you can get rid of the bubbles quicker is you can vary the speed of your pump to kind of try to dislodge them you can give the system a little shake that can help and those are probably the two main techniques I mean yeah you can take your tower and you can like move it around but that's a lot of hassle so anyway at this point the loop is filled other than leaving out the last air bubbles and that's what it looks like so I'll do a quick tour of the finished system now that I'm finally done my upgrade that took