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Installation of this kit was rather easy. The pump, radiator, and external reservoir use magnets to hold it into place. Now I have to say that I was rather skeptical of this. First off magnets and some PC components do not play well with each other. The magnets are about 1/2" wide and there are 8 of them total. The first thing I did was position the magnets onto everything.


Once you have this done you can now place these parts into your case. The pump for my Chieftec case fit the best at the bottom in the back of the case, which is where Thermaltake recommends to put it. The radiator you want to place that up front by the intake fans of your case. The external reservoir you could pretty much put it anywhere on the outside of the case, I choose to put it up high where it was easy to get to.


Now let me guess, your thinking that this works fine for a steel case but what about aluminum cases? Thermaltake is one step ahead of you. Included with this kit is some rather strong adhesive tape and some metal plates. All you need to do is peel one side of the tape off, stick it onto the metal plate, peel the remaining side off and stick it onto your case in the desired location. Pretty simple and the magnets now will hold everything into place!

Next on the list is the water block. Thermaltake includes hardware to mount this block onto a K7, K8 or a P4 processor. My guess is that since this works for a K7 that it will also work on a P3 FC-PGA chip as well. Since I don't have a K8 or a P4 chip I will just be going through the K7 installation. Below is the mounting hardware for a P4. It consist of a couple metal brackets and a peice of foam which acts as a insulator. One of the metal plates needs to be positioned on the back side of the motherboard and then there are some screws that come up through the bottom. The top plate is then used to securely hold the block onto the K8 and P4 chips. You could also use this mounting method for the Athlons but a clip is included for this installtion.

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