General Watercooling Help

smoothy

Junior Member

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 1:24pm

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Hi all,

this is my first attempt at water cooling my system and i have a couple of questions.

First of all. Can i mount an aquastream xt ultra upside down?

Does the pump have to be at the bottom of the loop? what happens if not?

Can i plug the aquastream xt into an aquaero?

any particular order of connecting components?

any other general important stuff a noob should know?

Thanks in advance!

pharao

Moderator

Re: General Watercooling Help

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 1:35pm

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Hi and welcome to our Forum!

Quoted from "smoothy"

Can i mount an aquastream xt ultra upside down?

yes

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Does the pump have to be at the bottom of the loop?

no

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what happens if not?

filling the loop with water might be a little more difficult (depends on your setup)

Quoted

Can i plug the aquastream xt into an aquaero?

yes

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any particular order of connecting components?

no, the order doesn't matter. during the filling of the loop it helps if the reservoir is in front of the pump, but otherwise it's up to you

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smoothy

Junior Member

Re: General Watercooling Help

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 1:45pm

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wow thanks for such a quick response!!!

i was thinking this loop: pump -> rad 1 -> aquatube -> CPU -> chipset -> rad 2 -> gpu1 -> gpu2 -> pump.

i have my aquatube in the top of my case for easy filling.

does the cable to connect the pump to the aquaero come with one of them? should i just plug it into the aquaero or usb or both?

thanks again

Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Re: General Watercooling Help

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 3:56pm

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The necessary 3-pin cable comes with the pump. Using this cable (aquabus) and USB would be the best option because you will have all monitoring and controlling features available

smoothy

Junior Member

Re: General Watercooling Help

Monday, November 10th 2008, 1:11pm

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thanks,

i must have overlooked that in my bundle.

will having the pump at virtually the top of the loop (aquatube is higher) cause any long term problems such as air bubbles or will it just take longer to get rid of the bubbles?

thanks again!