Installation
Looking at block installation now. With a P4 motherboard, removing the retention bracket is the obvious first step. Block installation is easy enough. Simply insert the pre-supplied guides by screwing in the four screws from the back of the board. Enough washers are supplied to use them on both sides.
8 springs are included; four light and four heavy. Although the same colour, they're easily differentiable by simple squash test. The light ones give way under modest pressure. These go below the block, the heavies on the top.
Now just screw down and you're done. With an AMD processor I'd recommend taking the final stage slowly. A P4, on the other hand, is almost immune to the method of fitting.
A sachet of conductive compound is supplied to help the transfer from CPU to block. A 3.0GHz Pentium 4 C is now resides under the block. An intuitive, easy installation process.
All done, with the tubing in place.
Asetek recommend the following flow of water: pump/reservoir - radiator - block - pump/reservoir. I'd personally think that the radiator would be best placed after the block, but we're sure that Asetek tried all the various combinations.
The 10mm tubing was cut in half and used to connect the block to the pump and the block to the radiator. The 12mm tube is used to connect the pump to the radiator. These are standard sizes that can be bought separately if need be. The tubing was rather averse to bending. Just make sure that you cut to appropriate length when installing. With limited testing time, installing the components in a case was just outside the scope of this review. However, with a bit of careful planning you should be able to house the constituent parts in a midi-sized case, especially with the relatively small radiator.
I'd recommend hooking the flow system up outside of a motherboard and testing for possible leaks beforehand. Leaks, by very definition, should only be able sprout from the six possible tube inlets. Pushfit fittings are excellent though, simply push the tube in and it won't come out unless you push the blue rings down.
A wire is provided to enable you to boot the PSU and pump without having to boot the motherboard. Simply attach to the third and fourth pins on the top layer and away you go. As the pump is now working, the reservoir is filled up until the system is fully satiated with water. Remember that the motherboard and CPU won't be active at this time. In operation the pump produces a slight tone; nothing annoying though. The Sunon fan at 12v is a little loud for my personal liking, but it is almost inaudible at 7v. You can run the Waterchill with the fan switched off, i.e. a totally passive system, but performance will be compromised, naturally.
For a rank amateur in watercooling terms, installation was a breeze. A decent manual helped matters here.
