Installation Continues:

At casual look the full tower Transformer case should work because it provides more than sufficient clearance based on the 67 and 20 mm rules suggested by Cooler Master.

The installation requires motherboard removal. This "factory assembled" unit with radiator, pump and water block all "piped" and pre-filled, you would wish you have another pair of hands during installation. Because the tubing is not long enough to rest the radiator on anything while you are trying to install the back plate, the short or just enough tubing lengths provides better efficiency.


Rubber dampers installed


The motherboard back plate installed - there is a socket provided to tighten the nuts. Remember the "left handed thread" I mentioned previously which works out nicely with the right hand turned nuts here.


Showing here the wrong way to install the pump/block, NB heatsink could be in your way on some motherboard such as in this case. Moving the bracket to the other direction resolve the clearance issue.


Not really resolving the clearance issue, as you could see the 4-capacitors are not co-operating with me. A little force convinced them to move out of the way. However, look closer you would find the 3-pin fan header (center bottom of the photo) pressing by the block body. The pump connector has a difficult time plugging in.


I thought I was about done before I fired up; the tooless PCI lock was just in the way preventing me to mount the radiator fan assembly. By installing all add-on PCI/AGP cards and lock-down the level, I could install the radiator. However, this also means I have to remove the radiator every time I have the need to replace/remove any AGP/PCI cards. Installing the 120mm fan first does not help the situation.


At last!!


Min sound saturation level of 37.4 dBA in test area; I tested for leak and max sound level before hand - 63.9 dBA at close range and full 12 V.


Test Bed:

Transformer Full Tower
Abit NF7-S v.2
Athlon XP-M 2600+ Default speed 2.0 GHz; Default Voltage 1.45
WD 80 GB IDE
ATI R9600XT
Apacer 1x512 2.5-3-3-7
DVD/RW
Window XP Pro SP2
Arctic Silver 5
Room temp during test ~21.5 C
Tests performed in closed panel case
Stress test using Prime95 ~30 minutes

Cooler Master Aquagate Mini R120
SLK800 80mm 3000 RPM + Chill Vent II

The combination of SLK800 and Chill Vent allows lower level sound emission and decent cooling.

The results are very interesting ->