everyone keeps asking me for a system water cooling guide and the reality of
it is it's too much work and very few people care so uh maybe I'll just do
sort of more random blogging about my my system water cooling upgrades whenever I
do them so uh step number one for this this is a full system right now I'm
using quick disconnects because I was temporarily running a CPU only Loop
while I waited for my graphics card to get a water block so what I'm going to
do first is I'm going to drink the water out of the system and I will do that by
taking my quick disconnects and uh
just uh clipping the zip tie that I have over the Barb here over a bucket making
sure that they're positioned over the bucket and then basically removing both
of the quick disconnects that's what I'm going to okay that was it I actually
don't need much of the water drained out because all I'm going to do is cut this
piece of tubing cut this piece of tubing put a full cover block in there with a
video card attached to it and then I'm going to run the system and uh uh refill
the res as necessary okay so I've swapped out the old graphics card and
swapped in the new graphics card put in my power connectors put in my screws so
everything is hky Dory as far as I can tell so now all I need to do is measure
this tubing make sure I cut it to the right length so that it'll look all nice
and be the right length and then I'm going to slip the top halves of the
compression fittings onto the tubing put the tubing on the barbs and then screw
in the compression fittings that was it so now I have taken
out the quick disconnects taken out the extra tubing and installed the
compression fittings and tubing on my card now if I was diligent I would have
leak tested this before powering it on but I'm just going to power it on CU I'm
pretty sure I did everything right I've done this a few times after all
mind you that kind of overconfidence is what can get you burned so don't do that
do as I say not as I do right now the process that I'm uh working on is called
bleeding the loop so that is to say that I am uh trying to get all the bubbles
out so I'm turning it on at the back oh I turned it off in the back a cat go
away um so I'm turning it on at the back
starting up the system waiting for
the well for the system to start properly
first okay so I'm waiting for the res to
empty and then I'm refilling it looks like that was my last cycle so after
that you can see there's still some bubbles left and that's going to last
for a while one of the ways that you can get rid of the bubbles quicker is you
can vary the speed of your pump to kind of try to dislodge them you can give the
system a little shake that can help and
um those are probably the two main techniques I mean yeah you can take your
Tower and you can can like move it around but that's a lot of hassle so
anyway at this point the loop is filled um other than leaving out the
last air bubbles and that's what it looks like so I'll do a quick tour of
the finished system now that I'm finally done my upgrade that took forever