Corsair COOL Watercooling

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We're almost there!

It's time to fill the kit with some fluid but, you do not want to turn on your entire PC just yet. Make sure you disconnected your ATX power plug and remaining 4-pin power plug from your mainboard. We simply are going to bypass the electronics circuit for everything except the water-cooling pump and control unit.

Now here's a trick I'm going to instruct you, Guru style. Make sure that the only thing connected to the PSU is the water cooling pump. Thus take the ATX power connector that normally mounts to your mainboard (see above picture) and bridge pin 13 and 14 (Black/Green) with a wire. Don't worry, this is pretty fool proof.

What happens is this, your PSU will now activate itself and your pump will start working.

It's alive, IT'S ALIVE !!!

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You will hear the pump is now active as it makes noise when it has no water. We now fill the reservoir with the supplied fluid. Also make sure you have distilled water. If you do not have any or can't get it then bring water to boil for a couple of minutes, cool it down and use that. That will limit the amount of calcium (damages the pump) in the water and will eliminate most bacteria, algae, etc. 

Shake the tubing, fill the reservoir with the UV reactive water. Do what you need to do to make sure there is no air in there and that the water is flowing. BUT BE CAREFUL. It was a difficult process for us that took 15 minutes to complete. Air bubbles made it really hard to get the process going. Turning the PSU on and off helped a lot. If water is not flowing due to air bubbles lift the pump up and shake the tubing.

Once you are confident that enough water or as it is now 'coolant' is in the we shut down the pump again. We close the reservoir (tightly!) Turn on the pump one more and triple check for leakage. Leave it running for 10 minutes and check everything again.

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During this process we left the pump outside the PC. We want to move it around so we can move that air in the tubes a little. Also, if the pump would leak it would leak outside the PC.

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Once your are convinced that nothing is leaking and working properly, it's time to reconnect the ATX cables to your mainboard and other gear and fire the beast up. Again make sure the water is flowing though the tubing and check that there is no air on the hose so that we know we have constant flow. We can now seat and shelter the pump.

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Congratulations, you now have a watercooled system, you may finally call your rig a beast! You will no longer call your PC a PC, you will now call it Cheetah, Lion, Monster something with powerrrrr!

Although it's not yet a pretty sight just yet, we are getting close to the end-results. This entire procedure will take you roughly an hour's time if you are slightly experienced with building PC's. If you are not, just take your time and use this article as guideline. Afterwards take your time cleaning up the wiring with, for example, tie-wraps.

Right we're all done here, let me overclock the bejesus out of the processor eh?

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