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Four Liquid-Cooling Systems for the Masses (page 19)

Category: Coolers

by Vasily Melnik

[ 10/14/2005 | 03:30 PM ]

The enclosed fasteners support only the most popular platforms, four in total. Two clips for Socket 478:

A frame for LGA775 to which the water-block is attached by means of the above-mentioned clips:

And a universal bracket for AMD’s latest platforms:

Only Socket 939 and 754 are supported. Gigabyte doesn’t think it necessary to include fasteners for the almost dead Socket A platform.

How will you install the radiator in system cases that don’t have an exhaust 120mm fan? Use a special bracket:

It is fastened with two screws to the top of the radiator:

And then you can hang the radiator on the rear panel of the case, attaching it to the bottom screws of the power supply:

This is a simple solution, yet no one had thought of it before. The radiator hangs in such a way that it doesn’t block the mainboard’s interface connectors and it receives the air stream from the exhaust fan on the rear panel, whatever its diameter may be. Well, if you’ve got a system case with a 120mm exhaust fan, you can fasten the radiator in the traditional way, too.