Assembly Tips

The evaporator is to be fastened to the mainboard by means of a CPU kit. There are kits to install the Mach II and GT on Socket A, Socket 478, LGA775, and Socket 754/939/940.

We’ve got three kits at our disposal, with the exception of the virtually useless Socket A.

Each CPU kit consists of:

• Plastic mainboard’s face-plate
• Metal fastener for the evaporator
• Mainboard’s back-plate
• Heater element
• Fastening screws
• Hex-headed screwdriver
• Seal string (insulation)
• Installation guide

The assembly and installation process doesn’t ask you to do anything irreversible (what discouraged some people in the VapoChill XE was the necessity to daub the socket with thermal paste and glue insulation right to the mainboard!) We performed the installation on a Socket LGA775, but it’s all the same with the other two sockets. It may take quite a long time at first, but later on you’ll learn to install the system much faster.

1. The heater element is glued to the back-plate. Note that the kits from Chip-Con/nVENTIV used to include a plastic back-plate, while the new kits from ECT (the updated Socket 939 kit and the LGA775 kit) include a more reliable and handy back-plate made of metal.
   
   
   
2. Then you put one layer of the Seal String insulation around the perimeter of the back-plate (this seal string stuff resembles rubberized plasticine). The insulation is already the necessary diameter in the coil. The seal string can be used repeatedly as it does not lose its insulating properties with use.