Video Card Water Cooling Upgrade Installation Guide Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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659 words · ~3 min read
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everyone keeps asking me for a system water cooling guide and the reality of
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it is it's too much work and very few people care so uh maybe I'll just do
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sort of more random blogging about my my system water cooling upgrades whenever I
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do them so uh step number one for this this is a full system right now I'm
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using quick disconnects because I was temporarily running a CPU only Loop
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while I waited for my graphics card to get a water block so what I'm going to
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do first is I'm going to drink the water out of the system and I will do that by
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taking my quick disconnects and uh
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just uh clipping the zip tie that I have over the Barb here over a bucket making
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sure that they're positioned over the bucket and then basically removing both
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of the quick disconnects that's what I'm going to okay that was it I actually
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don't need much of the water drained out because all I'm going to do is cut this
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piece of tubing cut this piece of tubing put a full cover block in there with a
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video card attached to it and then I'm going to run the system and uh uh refill
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the res as necessary okay so I've swapped out the old graphics card and
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swapped in the new graphics card put in my power connectors put in my screws so
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everything is hky Dory as far as I can tell so now all I need to do is measure
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this tubing make sure I cut it to the right length so that it'll look all nice
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and be the right length and then I'm going to slip the top halves of the
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compression fittings onto the tubing put the tubing on the barbs and then screw
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in the compression fittings that was it so now I have taken
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out the quick disconnects taken out the extra tubing and installed the
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compression fittings and tubing on my card now if I was diligent I would have
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leak tested this before powering it on but I'm just going to power it on CU I'm
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pretty sure I did everything right I've done this a few times after all
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mind you that kind of overconfidence is what can get you burned so don't do that
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do as I say not as I do right now the process that I'm uh working on is called
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bleeding the loop so that is to say that I am uh trying to get all the bubbles
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out so I'm turning it on at the back oh I turned it off in the back a cat go
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away um so I'm turning it on at the back
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starting up the system waiting for
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the well for the system to start properly
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first okay so I'm waiting for the res to
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empty and then I'm refilling it looks like that was my last cycle so after
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that you can see there's still some bubbles left and that's going to last
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for a while one of the ways that you can get rid of the bubbles quicker is you
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can vary the speed of your pump to kind of try to dislodge them you can give the
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system a little shake that can help and
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um those are probably the two main techniques I mean yeah you can take your
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Tower and you can can like move it around but that's a lot of hassle so
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anyway at this point the loop is filled um other than leaving out the
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last air bubbles and that's what it looks like so I'll do a quick tour of
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the finished system now that I'm finally done my upgrade that took forever