DeepCool GamerStorm Genome review

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Product Showcase - The Build

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Once done you need to mount two horizontal metal brackets which you secure with again four thumbscrews. You are now almost there as the one thing left to do will be mounting the CPU block and its wiring.
 

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Once you seated the block you screw it secure with the two spring based screws to the left and right. Turn the screw driver until it's tight and you are done. You need to connect the pump wires towards a FAN header. The three fans in the reservoir need to be connected to an include fan HUB, that one is connected to your CPU FAN header with just one wire.
 

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So we now have the cooler in place and connected, it is time to finish up the rest. Here I am securing the power/reset/hdd wires. BTW one thing that I dislike about the chassis is the PSU cutout. DeepCool made a nice separated compartment for the PSU and then the cutout shows fairly in-your-face branding. It would have had my preference to have that gap closed for better aesthetics. 
 

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We can now secure our PSU with some screws. It is advised to install the PSU first and then the motherboard. The 4/8-pin CPU power wire you'll want to have in place before you mount the motherboard. Otherwise you can't reach the connector anymore (yes, ..  I found out the hard way).

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At the backside you'll have decent enough space of cable routing, though not luxurious alright. Especially once you start to mount SSDs the clearance in-between panel and motherboard tray gets smaller and smaller. Then again, who's mounting four SSDs really? 
 

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First power check, yep! ... pump is running, LEDs on the pump and radiator fans nice lit up and start spinning. Let me call this the dry-run ... leave it running for a few minutes and make sure there are no leaks. In our case .. the setup is dry as Sahara sand. BTW at first start-up always monitor CPU temps in your BIOS, that way you can see it being cool of overheat if you did not seat the cooling block properly (hey it does happen more often than you think).

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