6 - Hydra Hardware Installation
Hardware Installation
As always we also take a look at the installation of the product. I have to give out props to ECS here. This was by far the most easy to install kit ever.
The next step will be inserting the kit into your PC. Obviously you should already have led the cooling unit tubing through the 5.25"drive bay. Don't secure the unit just yet though because we still need to fill the reservoir with some coolant.
When you open up the kit you connect four tubes (in- and outflow of both cards), then clamp down the fastenings. Above the inflow. Each connector you'll connect to an inflow tube from one of the graphics cards.
Got the tubing connected? Don't forget to clamp it down. Once the tubing is connected carefully slide the two cards into the two PCIe slots of your nForce mainboard. Once done please apply the SLI bridge connector.
You should have received one with your mainboard already. If not, ECS included one in the kit as well which we think is a very thorough thing to do from ECS. Though the cards will be water-cooled they are both equipped with low-level fans as well. Please do not forget to connect them to the power circuitry, and that includes the Thermaltake Bigwater 760 IS power circuitry s well.