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Air-, Liquid- and Thermo-Electrical Cooling Technologies in One: CoolIT Freezone Review (page 5)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 08/24/2007 | 12:54 PM ]

Installation Tips

Summing up the weight of each component, it is easy to calculate the total weight of the CoolIT Freezone at about 1715 grams! Don’t worry, though. Your mainboard and CPU won’t have to bear all this weight on themselves. Let’s discuss the installation procedure first.

You should insert two or four bushings into the mainboard depending on the socket type:

The bushings are screwed through the mainboard via plastic spacers, so you have to take the mainboard out of your system case in either case:

A back-plate is not included into the kit.

An obligatory requirement for a successful installation of the Freezone into a system case is a seat for a 92 or 120mm fan at the rear panel. If your system case doesn’t offer one, you have to replace it (after all, the new case is going to cost only one sixth of the cooling system J). If you’ve got a 120mm seat, you have to mount the adapter plate on the Freezone fan:

Then you remove your system fans from the rear panel of the case and prepare to install the cooling system. It is convenient to put it nearby on the 5.25” cage:

The pipes are short, so you just can’t find any other temporary place for the radiator.

The water-block is secured on the CPU by means of two stiff wire clips (different for each socket type). They are fastened by means of headed nuts.

The pressure is high and the water-block remains motionless on the CPU heat-spreader. As I wrote above, each couple of clips lies in an individual polyethylene pack with a letter mark that is referred to in the detailed installation guide (PDF, 5.15MB), so it’s hard to do anything wrong.