Hey there I’m Robbie with Category5 Technology TV and tonight I’m going to be introducing you to liquid cooling for your PC. In particular I’m looking at this device this is the Thermal Take Bigwater 780e and the reason I wanted to look at this one from Thermal Take is because everything is included in one easy box so just have to buy that one box and you’ve got everything that you need to get started. You don’t have to shop around and hope that you got everything and then find out. I forgot to buy the hose and then all the liquid spring all over your computer. That would be nasty.
So this is a 3U ESA certified device that means well that’s the enthusiast system Architecture from end video it’s an open standard for doing things like monitoring the fan. Monitoring the level of your liquid so that you can actually tell if your liquid is running low through software, so that’s very cool and it gives you a lot of other features that we’re going to be looking at in just a few minutes as well.
So contained within this device we’ve got the radiator of the fun, the pump, the liquid cooler and reservoir, the ESA centers, the flow indicators. Everything that needs to happen for the liquid cooling is happening right here which is nice, it’s all self contained and really slick.
We’ve also got the hosing that comes with it the liquid cooler is included, a nice little filling hosy thing and what you call that and of course the copper water block and this is going to allow you to cool your CPU using the liquid cooling system. That doesn’t matter whether you’re using an old P4 that’s the socket 478 as a matter if you got a quad core or 775 or even an AMD chips at they are amounting brackets for each of those.
So let’s just a kind a clear off this desk here and get started on our liquid cooling System we’re actually and we take this right from the Gecko and see how easy this is to install on our system. Now it’s imperative when installing a liquid cooling system into your computer that outside of your chassis before even thinking about installing this thing that you test it. You don’t know if it got damage during shipping. Somebody could have drop it or throw it off of a tall building. So we just want to test it for the safety of your own equipment.
So what we want to do is we want to just grab this hose that’s included with the big water 780e and just unwrap of that and we’re going to pull a small piece of that off which is going to be garbage at the end of this but it’s going to give us the assurance that this is going to work just fine without any leaks.
So what are the things with the hose is you going to make sure your PC’s are long enough that is not going to crimp like this because that’s going to with the garden hose does you’re not going to get any water flow if its like that. So we want to just check how long this piece has to be in order to connect it to that. So we’re going to need about of one foot piece of hosing here so we’re just going to grab our scissors and cut that and there we go and once you’ve got your one foot piece we’re going to install the cue connector and what this is, is just a like a quick connecting for the liquid cooling system.
So we’re not going to install this program a list so we’re not going to install this program a list so we’re going to use any claps or anything like that we’re just going to pop this on this temporary hose and this is just for the testing procedure. So we just pop up that right on there and there we go.
Now grab you cue connector in and snap it right in and make sure it’s nice and snack and do that on both the in and out on your liquid cooling system. So it’s a nice length and it’s not going to crease at all. Next step to the test is we need to put some liquid into here so let’s open this device, grab our handy filly thing and I’m going to give it name and call it George. All right grab our liquid cooling and don’t drink this so when we want to feel the reservoir here we don’t’ want to start pouring directly from the refill tank because of course if you spill that’s going to make quite a mess especially when this is in your computer.
So describe George here squeeze the air right out of him and just write down there and just pop that hose right in there and just release and you’ll see that, that will just start just through standard section we’ll fill that right up.
All right now so the history felt we’re just going to insert that into their and start filling. Now remember the first time that you fill you’re like a cooling system it’s going to take a little longer and you’re going to use a lot more fluid because of the fact that the radiator currently has no liquid in it.
So you’re not only filling the reservoir tank you’re filling the radiator as well. So there’s really two ways that you can run this task because across the unit it has to be powered on in order to test it right. So if you have a safe way to set this up directly to your computer then that’s okay. Turn off you computer set this down next to it or something like that. Keeping your mind that if there is a leak it could spray liquid out so make sure that it’s going to come in contact with your computer itself because that’s danger and then you can plug this in, turn on your computer and then you’ll be able to tell if this is working just fine with no leaks but that’s said.
Another way to do it on the way that I’m going to do it today is just to take a power supply here and a power supply tester which is going to automatically power on that power supply and there we’re going to be able to safely do this on a counter or on our desk without the risk of it coming in contact with any of our computer peripherals had like if the device deadly.
So I’m just going to plug in my power supply test sort of this unit here. So just observe the manual for your electric cooling System with regards to the power connection, I’ve just connected this to the Bigwater 780e in this cable here that’s included with it and then I’m going to plug that into the power supply itself.
So with Power Supply is power switch in the off position let’s connect the power cable and now for the moment of truth or I put the power switch and see what happens. We are watching for two things here first thing we want to see that there’s no liquid coming out of the device leaking from the device itself.
Let me want to watch down here and just see that there is some water flows. So far there’s none but what we want to watch for here is that the level stay above the low indicator. If they go below low that’s because of course it’s feeling up the radiator so we want to watch that stays above low. So we are watching this level here and noticing that this is going down below the low marks so we need to fill it up even more.
Now I can see him we can hear that as I get a little more liquid in there now we’ve got some flows see that hose. If you have any large bubbles show in their way on the hose just kind of give the hose a little bit of a tap very carefully because you don’t want to have the hose spring off and there we go.
So we would like to run for just a few minutes because we want to make sure that indeed there are no leaks and there are no problems with this device. No it’s laughter a little more than 10 minutes of running this through the test and confident that there are no leaks and there’s nothing going wrong with this device at all so I’m ready to install this in my System.
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